I'm a 'conservative'. Not Far right, but a little right. I'm also a non practicing evangelical.
I personally believe all sickness is a punishment on mankind for original sin, for we were immortal and perfect in the beginning. Just my belief, you may have your own.
To suggest that a human would try to block the research of a cure/vaccine for HIV because they believe it is punishment on homosexuals is absurd. That person isn't a fundamentalist, they are retarded.
Given unlimited time, human intelligence would reach GOD-like proportions. Just read the first couple chapters of Genesis. Satan told Eve just enough truth to get her to believe a lie. If we don't nuke ourselves off the map first, we will eventually cure/stop HIV.
However, history/evolution/biblical teaching all suggest that if and when we do so, another sickness will eventually arrive on the scene that is just as deadly or worse.
I must believe you don't work in USA then, because I've never seen an IT job without a non-compete requirement in the last 13 years of my career.
I have worked in the IT department of an insurance company for coming up on 3 years. I was greeted with no such agreement nor have I signed one. IT has never even been suggested that I may need to.
I did have to recently sign a non-disclosure agreement, which is pretty standard when they are going to share something with us that the world can't know about yet. But I could give them the finger tommorow and go work for a direct competitor if I wanted.
Granted, I'm a network technician / jr. system admin and not a programmer, but I'm pretty sure those guys don't sign anything here either.
Now the amusing thing is, in a previous life, I worked in a small computer store where we built and repaired PC's, and there I did have to sign a non compete agreement saying if I left that I could not work for a competitor in the same county for something like three years.
Why aren't things hidden more often in the alternate data streams? You can hide text in file, for instance, like so:
c:\> vol > vol.txt
c:\> dir > dir.txt
c:\> type vol.txt > dir.txt:secretarea
now the contents of vol.txt are also stored in an alternate data stream in dir.txt
the dir.txt filesize does not change, and by using type or even notepad you cannot see what is in the alternate data stream (ADS), but a simple
c:\> more dir.txt:secretarea
will return the contents that were in the original vol.txt
This example just shows how to store text in an ADS, but I'm pretty sure that you could store other things too, for example, files.
I wonder why virus writers do not store files in ADS of system files in order to avoid detection.
I wonder if encryption methods could be integrated with ADS. You know, even if you manage to decrypt the file, what you are looking for is in an ADS that you don't know about.
Yeah, I know. Offtopic.
I have moderator points, but the list seems to be incomplete. I see "offtopic" "flaimbait" and others, but I can't find the "-100, fuc|1ng retarded" option...
Provided they aren't using it all at the same time (chances are they would not be), then the bandwidth/throughput per user would be higher.
Even if they were all using it at the same time, chances are they aren't all going to be downloaded a movie torrent at the same time. If 10 users are just browsing the internet, then the other 11/12 go up to ~100KBPS (qucik math here), which is a HECK of a lot better than dial up
If you weren't looking through blinders, you would know there could be several ways to see what the person was looking at without "snooping"...
How about you go looking for a copy of a.tmp file that the user hadn't saved when they accidently turned off the power strip, only to stumble across the material?
Or you have a filetype such as.jpg that isn't opening with the correct application, so you do a quick search for a.jpg so you can fix the problem (you can't just go to folder options, blocked by group policy) and its listed in the results.
Or someone reports that a particular favorite isn't working, and you go to the list of favorites and there is one called "Hot asain babes"
Or any number of other ways.
I work with it every day. You never know what you might run across.
That would make us a democracy, which we are not...We are a republic, meaning we vote for representatives who in turn vote on the issues...
Well, actually, its a little more complicated, as we actually vote for representatives (electoral college) who vote for a representative (president), and under the original verbage of the constitution, we vote for representatives (state government) who vote for representatives (federal senators) who vote on issues. Not really sure what made us decide that voting for senators ourselves was a better idea, but we did it nontheless.
Why would Intel ever reverse it's position on NSP, when embedded DSP in HW can't hold enough uP's for GSP's to effectively compete with the GPGPU technique's employed by NSP?
Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems top me that as long as NSP's GPGPU'd uPs work at ~115% of the DSP from Nvidia, then Intel will have the corner market.
I know that financial institutions are required to archive all email communication forever, literally
I'm not entirely sure that is accurate. I work for an insurance company (financial institution), and being the one who runs the backups, I can tell you for a fact they aren't kept forever. 3 years, tops. Now maybe if you have to abide by SOx, which we don't, because we aren't publicly traded (being a mutual company), but that I cannot speak on.
I hate to be the Religious one in the crowd, but the Bible does make reference to a man who had a vision that in the last days there would fall "hail, mingled with fire", "sun/sky dark as ash".
Pretty good description for someone unfamiliar with a super volcano....
You took my comment before I could say it.
I mean yeah, it's funny, but someone should mod parent up insightful too.
The governments job is not to protect the stupid citizen from himself.
I mean come on. Population control at it's finest.
I'm not saying you're right, I'm not saying you're wrong.
I'm just saying that in the aftermath of of a huge national OMG moment, there were a lot of people who made the decision to go to war who now say "Well maybe we should have though about it more"
Agreed. So when is the candidate going to come forth? See, I would, but I'm about ten years and many millions of dollars too young.
Will the real Libertarian Please stand up? Please stand up? And put both hands up?
The real problem is that there is no 3rd option more often. We all scream about competition when its about Microsoft or Linux or Apple or whatever, but everyone is content on having Rep. vs Dem over and over again, both BS'ing their way into office.
What we need is a serious Libertarian Candidate or Independant Candidant or Chef's Chocolate Salty Balls candidate or ANY 3rd party candidate several elections in a row.
When the Dem's and Repubs start losing voters to condidates that actually have a vision and listen to their contituents, then maybe they will straighten up their acts a little. Heck, maybe the 3rd party will even get elected!!
America has not always been Repub vs Dem you know...
First, let me say I am pleasantly surprised. When I think of slashdot I normally think of a bunch of liberal, pro-evolution, anti-bush closed minded people who happen to also be a good forum for technology and sometimes non technical discussion. The number of "Hillary is a retard" posts has astounded me. Nevertheless, here is a glimpse of Hillary's record in the senate: (WARNING: It's a bit long, but interesting. Source: http://www.vote-smart.org/voting_category.php?can_ id=WNY99268)
Votes for alternatives to abortion, but does not vote against abortion.
Voted against 'cruel, inhumane, or degrading treatment of any individual in custody or physical control of the U.S. government, regardless of geographical location"
Voted "Prohibits any US court, justice or judge from hearing or considering a writ of habeas corpus filed by or on the behalf of a non-U.S. citizen who is detained at Guantanamo Bay
"
Voted "- Prohibits the use of funds to pay for the performance of abortions as a method of family planning, to motivate or coerce any individual to practice abortion, or perform involuntary sterilizations"
Voted for Tax cuts
Voted against "a resolution that increases the public debt limit to $8.97 trillion." which the Repub congress passed.
Voted to prohibit taxing of internet access, but to allow taxing of VOIP.
Did not vote on bankruptcy bill in 2005.
Voted YES to "Raise the minimum wage from $5.15 to $7.25 in three incremental stages"
Voted against contitutional amendment to make illegal desecration of the flag.
Voted against congreesional sot of living raise in 2005, as did 95% of the rest of congress.
Voted YES to "To increase the maximum Federal Pell Grant award by $200 to $4,250."
Voted to extend unemployment benefits for 13 additional weeks.
Voted YES "on the confirmation of President Bush's nomination of Robert M. Gates to be Secretary of Defense."
Voted NO "to confirm President George W. Bush's nomination of Judge Samuel A. Alito, Jr., to be Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court"
Voted NO "to confirm President George W. Bush's nomination of Judge John G. Roberts to be the United States Chief Justice."
Voted ~ 50/50 on all other nominations
Voted for creation of department of Homeland Security - (which, btw, ate the Secret Service and the coast guard at the time of creation; I did not realize this)
Voted NO "To prohibit the confiscation of a firearm during an emergency or major disaster if the possession of such firearm is not prohibited under Federal or State law." as did 95% of congress.
Voted NO to "A bill to prohibit civil liability actions from being brought or continued against manufacturers, distributors, dealers, or importers of firearms or ammunition for damages, injunctive or other relief resulting from the misuse of their products by others."
Voted YES to "pass a bill that authorizes the construction of an additional 700 miles of double-layered fencing between the U.S. and Mexico and grants the Secretary of Homeland Security authority to take necessary steps to stop unlawful entry of undocumented immigrants into the U.S."
Voted YES to "- Allows immigrants who have lived in the U.S. for the past five years to be eligible for U.S. citizenship as long as they pass a background check, pay all back taxes and fines, maintain a job for six additional years, learn English, and pay a fine (Sec 601[245B])"
Voted against English as a national language.
Voted against making it a criminal offense to harm an unborn fetus in the progress of another crime.
Voted YES to war with Iraq.
Voted YES to Partiot Act, 2001.
Voted YES "Vote to pass a bill that allows for the Secretary of Health and Human Services to conduct and support research that uses human embryonic stem cells."
This is exactly the sort of things that will eventually lead to a 'paperless, moneyless' society, where your microchipped card/hand/whatever will have to be scanned and match your personal information. Not that I am against multiple security layers, but...come on....
Anyway, for the record, IANARN
Mod parent up!! Seriously. I guess it's still worth reporting, just to let those of us who are unfortunate to have to deal with it know, but it's not really news anymore.
And there certainly can't be anything to discuss or post comments about.
I wonder where you approach the limit.....
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You could only get so much bigger (bones, muscle, etc) before it wasn't an advantage anymore, right? I mean, growing something in higher gravity so that it creates a stronger 'infrastructure' (for lack of a better term) would only be beneficial up to a certain point, at which point the weight of said 'infrastructure' would weight you down so as to defeat the purpose....
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I'm a 'conservative'. Not Far right, but a little right. I'm also a non practicing evangelical.
I personally believe all sickness is a punishment on mankind for original sin, for we were immortal and perfect in the beginning. Just my belief, you may have your own.
To suggest that a human would try to block the research of a cure/vaccine for HIV because they believe it is punishment on homosexuals is absurd. That person isn't a fundamentalist, they are retarded.
Given unlimited time, human intelligence would reach GOD-like proportions. Just read the first couple chapters of Genesis. Satan told Eve just enough truth to get her to believe a lie. If we don't nuke ourselves off the map first, we will eventually cure/stop HIV.
However, history/evolution/biblical teaching all suggest that if and when we do so, another sickness will eventually arrive on the scene that is just as deadly or worse.
I mean, over the next several billion years, there's absolutely nothing that could change to alter our calculations!!
I have worked in the IT department of an insurance company for coming up on 3 years. I was greeted with no such agreement nor have I signed one. IT has never even been suggested that I may need to.
I did have to recently sign a non-disclosure agreement, which is pretty standard when they are going to share something with us that the world can't know about yet. But I could give them the finger tommorow and go work for a direct competitor if I wanted.
Granted, I'm a network technician / jr. system admin and not a programmer, but I'm pretty sure those guys don't sign anything here either.
Now the amusing thing is, in a previous life, I worked in a small computer store where we built and repaired PC's, and there I did have to sign a non compete agreement saying if I left that I could not work for a competitor in the same county for something like three years.
Why aren't things hidden more often in the alternate data streams? You can hide text in file, for instance, like so: c:\> vol > vol.txt c:\> dir > dir.txt c:\> type vol.txt > dir.txt:secretarea now the contents of vol.txt are also stored in an alternate data stream in dir.txt the dir.txt filesize does not change, and by using type or even notepad you cannot see what is in the alternate data stream (ADS), but a simple c:\> more dir.txt:secretarea will return the contents that were in the original vol.txt This example just shows how to store text in an ADS, but I'm pretty sure that you could store other things too, for example, files. I wonder why virus writers do not store files in ADS of system files in order to avoid detection. I wonder if encryption methods could be integrated with ADS. You know, even if you manage to decrypt the file, what you are looking for is in an ADS that you don't know about. Yeah, I know. Offtopic.
I have moderator points, but the list seems to be incomplete. I see "offtopic" "flaimbait" and others, but I can't find the "-100, fuc|1ng retarded" option...
Provided they aren't using it all at the same time (chances are they would not be), then the bandwidth/throughput per user would be higher.
Even if they were all using it at the same time, chances are they aren't all going to be downloaded a movie torrent at the same time. If 10 users are just browsing the internet, then the other 11/12 go up to ~100KBPS (qucik math here), which is a HECK of a lot better than dial up
I prefer that the cops tasered him, and then the crowd beat the crap out of the cops. But thats just me.
If you weren't looking through blinders, you would know there could be several ways to see what the person was looking at without "snooping"...
.tmp file that the user hadn't saved when they accidently turned off the power strip, only to stumble across the material?
.jpg that isn't opening with the correct application, so you do a quick search for a .jpg so you can fix the problem (you can't just go to folder options, blocked by group policy) and its listed in the results.
How about you go looking for a copy of a
Or you have a filetype such as
Or someone reports that a particular favorite isn't working, and you go to the list of favorites and there is one called "Hot asain babes"
Or any number of other ways.
I work with it every day. You never know what you might run across.
Mmm, tasty sweet and sour warheads...
It destroys one tenth of AMD's offerings?
That would make us a democracy, which we are not...We are a republic, meaning we vote for representatives who in turn vote on the issues...
Well, actually, its a little more complicated, as we actually vote for representatives (electoral college) who vote for a representative (president), and under the original verbage of the constitution, we vote for representatives (state government) who vote for representatives (federal senators) who vote on issues. Not really sure what made us decide that voting for senators ourselves was a better idea, but we did it nontheless.
Why would Intel ever reverse it's position on NSP, when embedded DSP in HW can't hold enough uP's for GSP's to effectively compete with the GPGPU technique's employed by NSP? Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems top me that as long as NSP's GPGPU'd uPs work at ~115% of the DSP from Nvidia, then Intel will have the corner market.
I don't have a US driver's license, I have a Virginia State Driver's License...
No, I'm not being a smart ass. Less Federal Government.
I'm not entirely sure that is accurate. I work for an insurance company (financial institution), and being the one who runs the backups, I can tell you for a fact they aren't kept forever. 3 years, tops. Now maybe if you have to abide by SOx, which we don't, because we aren't publicly traded (being a mutual company), but that I cannot speak on.
I hate to be the Religious one in the crowd, but the Bible does make reference to a man who had a vision that in the last days there would fall "hail, mingled with fire", "sun/sky dark as ash". Pretty good description for someone unfamiliar with a super volcano....
You took my comment before I could say it. I mean yeah, it's funny, but someone should mod parent up insightful too. The governments job is not to protect the stupid citizen from himself. I mean come on. Population control at it's finest.
I'm not saying you're right, I'm not saying you're wrong. I'm just saying that in the aftermath of of a huge national OMG moment, there were a lot of people who made the decision to go to war who now say "Well maybe we should have though about it more"
Agreed. So when is the candidate going to come forth? See, I would, but I'm about ten years and many millions of dollars too young. Will the real Libertarian Please stand up? Please stand up? And put both hands up?
PLAYOFFS? PLAYOFFS? Who said anything about PLAYOFFS ? Oh, sorry. But seriously, modify the subject lines.
The real problem is that there is no 3rd option more often. We all scream about competition when its about Microsoft or Linux or Apple or whatever, but everyone is content on having Rep. vs Dem over and over again, both BS'ing their way into office.
What we need is a serious Libertarian Candidate or Independant Candidant or Chef's Chocolate Salty Balls candidate or ANY 3rd party candidate several elections in a row.
When the Dem's and Repubs start losing voters to condidates that actually have a vision and listen to their contituents, then maybe they will straighten up their acts a little. Heck, maybe the 3rd party will even get elected!!
America has not always been Repub vs Dem you know...
The thing I'm curious about is how many times she will be compared to Bill like you just did.
For that matter, I wonder if Bill compared her to Bill?
First, let me say I am pleasantly surprised. When I think of slashdot I normally think of a bunch of liberal, pro-evolution, anti-bush closed minded people who happen to also be a good forum for technology and sometimes non technical discussion. The number of "Hillary is a retard" posts has astounded me. Nevertheless, here is a glimpse of Hillary's record in the senate: (WARNING: It's a bit long, but interesting. Source: http://www.vote-smart.org/voting_category.php?can_ id=WNY99268)
Votes for alternatives to abortion, but does not vote against abortion.
Voted against 'cruel, inhumane, or degrading treatment of any individual in custody or physical control of the U.S. government, regardless of geographical location"
Voted "Prohibits any US court, justice or judge from hearing or considering a writ of habeas corpus filed by or on the behalf of a non-U.S. citizen who is detained at Guantanamo Bay "
Voted "- Prohibits the use of funds to pay for the performance of abortions as a method of family planning, to motivate or coerce any individual to practice abortion, or perform involuntary sterilizations"
Voted for Tax cuts
Voted against "a resolution that increases the public debt limit to $8.97 trillion." which the Repub congress passed.
Voted to prohibit taxing of internet access, but to allow taxing of VOIP.
Did not vote on bankruptcy bill in 2005.
Voted YES to "Raise the minimum wage from $5.15 to $7.25 in three incremental stages"
Voted against contitutional amendment to make illegal desecration of the flag.
Voted against congreesional sot of living raise in 2005, as did 95% of the rest of congress.
Voted YES to "To increase the maximum Federal Pell Grant award by $200 to $4,250."
Voted to extend unemployment benefits for 13 additional weeks.
Voted YES "on the confirmation of President Bush's nomination of Robert M. Gates to be Secretary of Defense."
Voted NO "to confirm President George W. Bush's nomination of Judge Samuel A. Alito, Jr., to be Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court"
Voted NO "to confirm President George W. Bush's nomination of Judge John G. Roberts to be the United States Chief Justice."
Voted ~ 50/50 on all other nominations
Voted for creation of department of Homeland Security - (which, btw, ate the Secret Service and the coast guard at the time of creation; I did not realize this)
Voted NO "To prohibit the confiscation of a firearm during an emergency or major disaster if the possession of such firearm is not prohibited under Federal or State law." as did 95% of congress.
Voted NO to "A bill to prohibit civil liability actions from being brought or continued against manufacturers, distributors, dealers, or importers of firearms or ammunition for damages, injunctive or other relief resulting from the misuse of their products by others."
Voted YES to "pass a bill that authorizes the construction of an additional 700 miles of double-layered fencing between the U.S. and Mexico and grants the Secretary of Homeland Security authority to take necessary steps to stop unlawful entry of undocumented immigrants into the U.S."
Voted YES to "- Allows immigrants who have lived in the U.S. for the past five years to be eligible for U.S. citizenship as long as they pass a background check, pay all back taxes and fines, maintain a job for six additional years, learn English, and pay a fine (Sec 601[245B])"
Voted against English as a national language.
Voted against making it a criminal offense to harm an unborn fetus in the progress of another crime.
Voted YES to war with Iraq.
Voted YES to Partiot Act, 2001.
Voted YES "Vote to pass a bill that allows for the Secretary of Health and Human Services to conduct and support research that uses human embryonic stem cells."
Voted YES to Do Not Call Registry.
This is exactly the sort of things that will eventually lead to a 'paperless, moneyless' society, where your microchipped card/hand/whatever will have to be scanned and match your personal information. Not that I am against multiple security layers, but...come on.... Anyway, for the record, IANARN
Mod parent up!! Seriously. I guess it's still worth reporting, just to let those of us who are unfortunate to have to deal with it know, but it's not really news anymore. And there certainly can't be anything to discuss or post comments about.
You could only get so much bigger (bones, muscle, etc) before it wasn't an advantage anymore, right? I mean, growing something in higher gravity so that it creates a stronger 'infrastructure' (for lack of a better term) would only be beneficial up to a certain point, at which point the weight of said 'infrastructure' would weight you down so as to defeat the purpose....