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That's fine. Don't hire contractors. You pay contractors to *write code*. The schedule is your problem. If the tactic is to screw up the schedule and then blame the coders, then you really ought to have regular employees.
Myself, I simply charge 50% over my regular rate. I happy to accept the blame for the failure of a project, as long as I am getting paid a bit extra for it.
Andres Salomon is a fool for putting his explanation on the net. He should get a lawyer and SHUT HIS MOUTH.
So far, the "everything you say can and will be used againt you" has given the FBI a lot of evidence.
FBI: "Your Honor, I present the following quotes from the defendant's website into evidence. You will see that the defendant in his own words has admitted that he used the Yankee's computer in very irregular in improper ways."
*I'm simply an RPI student, admin, and programmer
(C/perl/whatever) who likes to dabble in cryptography, kernel hacking,
FBI: See, he's a hacker, by his own admission
*I know my way around
FBI: Bragging is typical for script kiddies.
*my initial reaction was "oh shit, someone's pissed about my 30 gig mp3 collection
FBI: The defendant also admits that he pirates music in large quantities.
* I then began a post-mortem inspection; I always find this to be very interesting
FBI: Get's his willies by trespassing. He's a criminal who loves crime.
*The last time I did this, I discovered the intruder had gotten in through...
FBI: The defendant did this on more than one system.
*I first checked port 21 of www.yankees.com, noticing that it was running wu-ftpd-2.6.0;
FBI: The defendant has stated exactly how he hacked the yankee website.
*So, I did a zone transfer of yankees.com (host -l
-t any yankees.com), and noticed an old.yankees.com.
FBI: The defendant admits to yet another trespass command. He is letting us see how his criminal mind works.
*I got no where with this (whether it was due to a firewall, I do not know), so I
returned to my IRC client
FBI: The defendant is describing how he dealt with an obstacle put in place by the yankee sysadmin.
*The entire thing lasted possibly five minutes,
FBI: The defendant is doing some more bragging. It is common among hackers to brag about being able to root a box quickly.
Here in the US we have the same thing. Anyone who can't pronounce "hot dog" is looked upon with suspicion. Dutch tourists pronounce it like "hat dack" and that's how we can tell they aren't from around here.
It would work really well, but why not just make an X server that uses SVGALIB as the display driver? That would amount to the same thing, PLUS you could run all your X apps through the thing.
If you want to yell "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore" out your window, that's fine. If you want to yell that same thing out of a window that I own, that's a completely different story.
Your boss owns the internet connection, and if he chooses to, he can control what you yell out his window.
Under Linux, C Compile times and shell performance are complete adequate on a Pentium 133. Everything else on top of that has been pure gravy. It is sooo ironic that the insane demand for powerful hardware that Windows has is making my Linux experience extremely nice. Windows uses up all those cycles trying to make things friendly with a GUI, and the effect of that is to make fast hardware very cheap. If it runs Windows, it runs Linux faster.
Microwave ovens don't have the power to break molecular bonds. They heat food by vibrating water molecules (that's why the food heats but not the plate). The water isn't broken up.
But wouldn't it be cool if it *was*? Hydrogen and Oxygen go boom in the kitchen.
The minimum energy required to break the chemical bonds in your DNA and cells is carried by photons of ultraviolet light. Unless your network card starts lighting up your black light posters, you're safe.
Yellowstone National Park in northwest Wyoming is a pretty place. Pretty dangerous, that is. About 70,000 years ago the place blew up in the largest volcanic explosion ever know to have occurred on Earth. Analysis of human mitochondrial DNA shows that the human race went through an evolutionary chokepoint at about that time. It is thought by some that this massive explosion drove humanity to the brink of extinction, possibly down to as few as a couple thousand barely surviving individuals. This volcano *will* erupt massively again, and if it does there will be serious trouble.
Public Libraries are expected to kiss up to the government to avoid losing their funding which has been shrinking all along? That's absolutely bizzarre. The libraries should turn this around and tell the federal government that they will remove *all* their computers unless their budgets for regular old fashioned books is restored to reasonable levels. Politicians are so eager to point at libraries as bastions of evil. They get to spend money to win a shallow moral victory and the libraries get screwed in the end.
This link gives all the ISS visibility info, PLUS information for Mir and dozens of bright naked eye satellites.
No matter where you live on earth, every evening just after twilight you can sit outside with a timetable and an accurate watch calibrated to the timelady's voice, and watch the "artificial moons" go by.
The reason public key crypto is only used to distribute keys is that public key crypto is slow compared to a strong algorithm such as DES. If you encrypt a meg of text with DES that will be pretty fast. A meg of text encrypted with a public key algorithm will take a while to crypt.
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That's fine. Don't hire contractors. You pay contractors to *write code*. The schedule is your problem. If the tactic is to screw up the schedule and then blame the coders, then you really ought to have regular employees.
Myself, I simply charge 50% over my regular rate. I happy to accept the blame for the failure of a project, as long as I am getting paid a bit extra for it.
What a strange thing to take. Do you suppose that you could make a donut with a coffee maker?
The short explanation for it is that Microsoft Software leaves us programmers with a great number of itches to scratch.
Andres Salomon is a fool for putting his explanation on the net. He should get a lawyer and SHUT HIS MOUTH.
So far, the "everything you say can and will be used againt you" has given the FBI a lot of evidence.
FBI: "Your Honor, I present the following quotes from the defendant's website into evidence. You will see that the defendant in his own words has admitted that he used the Yankee's computer in very irregular in improper ways."
*I'm simply an RPI student, admin, and programmer
(C/perl/whatever) who likes to dabble in cryptography, kernel hacking,
FBI: See, he's a hacker, by his own admission
*I know my way around
FBI: Bragging is typical for script kiddies.
*my initial reaction was "oh shit, someone's pissed about my 30 gig mp3 collection
FBI: The defendant also admits that he pirates music in large quantities.
* I then began a post-mortem inspection; I always find this to be very interesting
FBI: Get's his willies by trespassing. He's a criminal who loves crime.
*The last time I did this, I discovered the intruder had gotten in through...
FBI: The defendant did this on more than one system.
*I first checked port 21 of www.yankees.com, noticing that it was running wu-ftpd-2.6.0;
FBI: The defendant has stated exactly how he hacked the yankee website.
*So, I did a zone transfer of yankees.com (host -l
-t any yankees.com), and noticed an old.yankees.com.
FBI: The defendant admits to yet another trespass command. He is letting us see how his criminal mind works.
*I got no where with this (whether it was due to a firewall, I do not know), so I
returned to my IRC client
FBI: The defendant is describing how he dealt with an obstacle put in place by the yankee sysadmin.
*The entire thing lasted possibly five minutes,
FBI: The defendant is doing some more bragging. It is common among hackers to brag about being able to root a box quickly.
But I sure wouldn't want anyone to Digita my Ars.
Here in the US we have the same thing. Anyone who can't pronounce "hot dog" is looked upon with suspicion. Dutch tourists pronounce it like "hat dack" and that's how we can tell they aren't from around here.
It would work really well, but why not just make an X server that uses SVGALIB as the display driver? That would amount to the same thing, PLUS you could run all your X apps through the thing.
You're being redundant, because I already said that I was redundant. You just said that I was redundant again. Sheesh! When will it end?
If you want to yell "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore" out your window, that's fine. If you want to yell that same thing out of a window that I own, that's a completely different story.
Your boss owns the internet connection, and if he chooses to, he can control what you yell out his window.
Under Linux, C Compile times and shell performance are complete adequate on a Pentium 133. Everything else on top of that has been pure gravy. It is sooo ironic that the insane demand for powerful hardware that Windows has is making my Linux experience extremely nice. Windows uses up all those cycles trying to make things friendly with a GUI, and the effect of that is to make fast hardware very cheap. If it runs Windows, it runs Linux faster.
Just to be completely redundant or something...
Microwave ovens don't have the power to break molecular bonds. They heat food by vibrating water molecules (that's why the food heats but not the plate). The water isn't broken up.
But wouldn't it be cool if it *was*? Hydrogen and Oxygen go boom in the kitchen.
So what. I bitched myself down to 125. Only 75 more to go before I reach equilibrium.
No sense of humor?
DUH must be a word they use in the Windows world. I'm not familiar with it.
I own the patent for a device that allows people to post rewards for a successful patent search. This website clearly is in violation.
The minimum energy required to break the chemical bonds in your DNA and cells is carried by photons of ultraviolet light. Unless your network card starts lighting up your black light posters, you're safe.
Oops. I remembered incorrectly then. Thanks.
And Voyager 2 has passed Voyager 1.
Yellowstone National Park in northwest Wyoming is a pretty place. Pretty dangerous, that is. About 70,000 years ago the place blew up in the largest volcanic explosion ever know to have occurred on Earth. Analysis of human mitochondrial DNA shows that the human race went through an evolutionary chokepoint at about that time. It is thought by some that this massive explosion drove humanity to the brink of extinction, possibly down to as few as a couple thousand barely surviving individuals. This volcano *will* erupt massively again, and if it does there will be serious trouble.
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http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vwdocs/frequent_qu
Public Libraries are expected to kiss up to the government to avoid losing their funding which has been shrinking all along? That's absolutely bizzarre. The libraries should turn this around and tell the federal government that they will remove *all* their computers unless their budgets for regular old fashioned books is restored to reasonable levels. Politicians are so eager to point at libraries as bastions of evil. They get to spend money to win a shallow moral victory and the libraries get screwed in the end.
Just a tip...
When you type a message on Slashdot, your spelling and capitalization will be better if you're not also talking on your cellphone at the same time
This link gives all the ISS visibility info, PLUS information for Mir and dozens of bright naked eye satellites.
No matter where you live on earth, every evening just after twilight you can sit outside with a timetable and an accurate watch calibrated to the timelady's voice, and watch the "artificial moons" go by.
www.heavens-above.com
The reason public key crypto is only used to distribute keys is that public key crypto is slow compared to a strong algorithm such as DES. If you encrypt a meg of text with DES that will be pretty fast. A meg of text encrypted with a public key algorithm will take a while to crypt.
That's what that guy in the Rocky Horror Picture Show sings too.
until it can put textures onto pr0n.
PhD. Physics, Dissertation Title: "Regulating Warp Field Geometry with an AOL CD-ROM and Duct Tape"