Anyway, back when I was studying to be a professional engineer I noticed that over in computer science more than half the students were female. Out in the workforce I eventually wandered into IT and most places had zero to two percent female programmers. Where did all those girls go?
1950's answer: Didn't you know college is for finding someone to marry?
Today's answer: Every place I've been has had a 50% male-female split for programmers, and 75%male/25%female split for sysadmins. Maybe your businesses had poor benefits and/or inflexible hours?
I am a network security professional [...] I own Apple equipment specifically because after 20 years, here is what I want: No more goddamn hassles. I'm tired of tweaking.
So, you own Apple, but you don't like tweaking for security. ipfw is your only firewall tool on OS X, and that takes a little tweaking. So does full disk encryption and boot-up password. I can think of tons of things that require tweaking for an initial OS X setup, and tweaking that is not GUI based, too. I think either your tolerance for tweaking is higher than most people's and you don't realize it, or you don't care about your own computer's security.
More than half the videos on my ipad have no DRM, because I pirated them.
Hmm, Unethical security professionals are always at the top of the list for promotions. Hopefully no one at work knows your/. ID.
It's funny to see how Slashdot was was railing against MS about Trusted Computing, DRM and Palladium. Now Apple implements them in a shiny box...
Comments critical of Apple (even if true), are marked flamebait and overrated faster than they can be replied to. Apple marketers troll/., unlike MS marketers (who recognize a lost cause when they see one).
An onboard accelerometer allows you to use it in landscape or portrait configuration
What about Battleship(R) configuration? It would be interesting if it can be used by two people simultaneously. And there had better be an off-switch for that accelerometer. The thing I have hated most about my iPhone is that I can't read anything when laying down on my side.
Obama's the president now, not Bush! Didn't the Brits get the memo?
Are you kidding? Obama did more campaigning in Britain and Europe than any other candidate. More British probably voted for him than for David Cameroon.
How do you deal with the fact that nothing truly miraculous happens? How come every miracle has some other explanation?
Here's a real miracle:
The clouds grow wings and start raining jelly beans on the ground, while every plant on earth starts singing Weezer's "Buddy Holly" while 1,000,000 Elvis's appear floating 20 feet above the ground playing accordions made of bread.
According to Exodus, the Hebrew people followed a pillar of cloud and a pillar of fire in the desert for forty years, but they got used to the sight fairly quickly. No sooner did they have miraculous freedom from slavery, they thought they could order whatever they wanted like at a drive-through: "Yeah, I'd like six thousand quail fajitas please." And once they got not just meat, but also manna, they started complaining "Is YHWH really with us? Where are we going? Moses is sure taking a long time on that mountain; maybe we should melt all our gold and make a statue to worship."
Your problem in a nutshell: you fucking religious freaks have no imagination whatsoever.
Maybe because less imagination was used than even you think? Religious folk tend to believe the people witnessing those miracles were reporting what they saw, not fabricating stories.
I am a religious freak. And I do not oppose adult stem cell research at all. Hey, my nephew probably owes his life to it. I do oppose embryonic stem cell research, because it creates a demand for dead babies, which I have a huge moral problem with.
Also, adult stem cell research has led to over seventy approved treatments being used today. The number from embryonic research? Zero. But for some reason all the noise is made about embryonic research. I really do not understand why.
Of course you do. There is a group that has a near monopoly on making babies dead. They need sustained demand, and a permanent cultural shift into thinking that unborn babies are just harvestable tissue.
A Paramount exec said, 'Those people who want to rent are going to figure out ways to rent, and us restricting them from renting isn't going to turn it into a long term rental ending when we change to a new DRM scheme.'
There, FTFY
Also: Restricting. Nice to know they're owning up to that word.
No, really, I mean it. Some friends of mine were hired to write a game for an Energy Cooperative. The intention of the game was to promote energy safety (electrical and natural gas). But when digging games (call before digging), replacing electrical outlets (turn off appropriate breaker first), ladder work, kite flying, and gas detection and avoidance were brought to the table, the Cooperative rep gasped and said no, no, no! No dying! No danger! No possibility of fear or we'll get sued! So the game turned into a cutesy ball of flaming gas that turned off gas valves (without igniting them somehow), and a socket plug that turned off lights around his house to save energy. Wow, safety. Big waste of the Co-op's money.
It was probably a mistake for me to claim Christian theology as a point of contrast.
No, you were correct. Olddave is confusing theology with action. Non-Christians are "the world", and while teaching and proselytizing are things Christians are enjoined to do for "the world", laying a smack-down for sins isn't part of the religion. Of course, the legal system, with business permits etc. is another issue entirely. I'm sure plenty of non-Christians oppose things that might affect their communities too.
That's not "a nightmare scenario of legal jurisdiction". That's an opportunity. Allow me to sever the Gordian knot of tangled jurisdictional issues with justice, THUNDERDOME style.
Tonight's card: Muslim Fundamentalist Lawyer vs. Mark Zuckerberg. Two men enter, one world wins.
Can we combine this concept with a "Golgafrinchan rocket"-esque trick and make them both think that one man leaves?
Facebook's chat feature is http-only. My guess is it was a simple way to keep chat from working on the password reset pages (to prevent chat from stealing focus while typing in a password).
But this is not an ERROR, this is by design and should come with some warning. But an error? No, if the user knows the certificate and the site this is just a warning.
It _is_ just a warning. If the user knows the cert info (maybe printed on paper in front of him), he can verify it and add it to an exception list. I do that all the time for my own test servers. Firefox doesn't prevent people from connecting with self-signed certs, it just makes them think about the ramifications before they do.
But most unfortunate thing about FF is how it treats the self-signed certificates. It shows it as an SSL ERROR, to which exceptions must be made for the user to be able to enter the site. Can FF developers think about this fact for like longer than a second? It is not an error to run a site with a self-signed certificate, it is a configuration choice and it provides an important role to the site: encrypted traffic for login and for the data transferred to and from the client.
Why is FF showing this to the users as an error? This is not an error, this is by design and it is a special case of usage.
Because to verify a self-signed cert, every user has to call the site maintainer on the phone. Self-signed certs or Corporate CAs are great for in-house use where the sysadmins can install the certs for everyone, but since FF can't tell whether your unrecognized cert is being used to just feed html data to a user, or if the user is being asked to enter something confidential, it can't make a distinction between a reasonable use for self-signed and a MitM attempt. Since bad admins had been training people to "just click okay on the cert" for half a decade, FF took their warning up a notch and made people jump through hoops before they succumb to a potential MitM.
It can't work unless these sites already have an https version. If they redirect all 443 traffic to 80 like/., then it does nothing. It might work for facebook since it has a couple pages that allow https, but I'm sure things like their photo servers are probably http only.
People can make up names. I guess this explains #32-36, though.
In some cultures, you don't get assigned a real name until you're an adult and have had a sacred vision. Your true name is assigned to you, not made up by you.
I'm not going to store your name as a bitmap
Although in the case of people who do make up their own names, what have you got against (TM) between 1993 and 2000? Wikimedia stores his name as an SVG. Skads better than bmp.
The key problem in this situation is that the bowl will always have to point straight up.
Not if it's at the bottom of a tube in a centrifuge. Of course, spinning the end and dealing with the gyroscopic forces is a new problem, but you can't have everything. Assuming you can figure that out, you could take snapshots every X microseconds (whenever you're pointing at something you want).
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Anyway, back when I was studying to be a professional engineer I noticed that over in computer science more than half the students were female. Out in the workforce I eventually wandered into IT and most places had zero to two percent female programmers. Where did all those girls go?
1950's answer: Didn't you know college is for finding someone to marry?
Today's answer: Every place I've been has had a 50% male-female split for programmers, and 75%male/25%female split for sysadmins. Maybe your businesses had poor benefits and/or inflexible hours?
I am a network security professional [...] I own Apple equipment specifically because after 20 years, here is what I want: No more goddamn hassles. I'm tired of tweaking.
So, you own Apple, but you don't like tweaking for security. ipfw is your only firewall tool on OS X, and that takes a little tweaking. So does full disk encryption and boot-up password. I can think of tons of things that require tweaking for an initial OS X setup, and tweaking that is not GUI based, too. I think either your tolerance for tweaking is higher than most people's and you don't realize it, or you don't care about your own computer's security.
More than half the videos on my ipad have no DRM, because I pirated them.
Hmm, Unethical security professionals are always at the top of the list for promotions. Hopefully no one at work knows your /. ID.
It's funny to see how Slashdot was was railing against MS about Trusted Computing, DRM and Palladium. Now Apple implements them in a shiny box...
Comments critical of Apple (even if true), are marked flamebait and overrated faster than they can be replied to. Apple marketers troll /., unlike MS marketers (who recognize a lost cause when they see one).
An onboard accelerometer allows you to use it in landscape or portrait configuration
What about Battleship(R) configuration? It would be interesting if it can be used by two people simultaneously. And there had better be an off-switch for that accelerometer. The thing I have hated most about my iPhone is that I can't read anything when laying down on my side.
Suffer cyberattack from Russia, and potential real attack! Two for the price of none!
Obama's the president now, not Bush! Didn't the Brits get the memo?
Are you kidding? Obama did more campaigning in Britain and Europe than any other candidate. More British probably voted for him than for David Cameroon.
I don't get it. The Pirate Bay does not host material it indexes.
There, FTFY.
This is a purely disruptive technology and service offering that is going to hurt the professional ranks.
You kept talking, but all I heard was cars and buggy whip makers. Then I heard robots and auto-workers.
There's no wondering involved. They had a commercial that blatantly said that Macs don't get viruses. Liars.
A4 sized mobile phones
That won't sell in the U.S. It's Letter or 11x17, baby!
How do you deal with the fact that nothing truly miraculous happens? How come every miracle has some other explanation?
Here's a real miracle:
The clouds grow wings and start raining jelly beans on the ground, while every plant on earth starts singing Weezer's "Buddy Holly" while 1,000,000 Elvis's appear floating 20 feet above the ground playing accordions made of bread.
According to Exodus, the Hebrew people followed a pillar of cloud and a pillar of fire in the desert for forty years, but they got used to the sight fairly quickly. No sooner did they have miraculous freedom from slavery, they thought they could order whatever they wanted like at a drive-through: "Yeah, I'd like six thousand quail fajitas please." And once they got not just meat, but also manna, they started complaining "Is YHWH really with us? Where are we going? Moses is sure taking a long time on that mountain; maybe we should melt all our gold and make a statue to worship."
Your problem in a nutshell: you fucking religious freaks have no imagination whatsoever.
Maybe because less imagination was used than even you think? Religious folk tend to believe the people witnessing those miracles were reporting what they saw, not fabricating stories.
I am a religious freak. And I do not oppose adult stem cell research at all. Hey, my nephew probably owes his life to it. I do oppose embryonic stem cell research, because it creates a demand for dead babies, which I have a huge moral problem with.
Also, adult stem cell research has led to over seventy approved treatments being used today. The number from embryonic research? Zero. But for some reason all the noise is made about embryonic research. I really do not understand why.
Of course you do. There is a group that has a near monopoly on making babies dead. They need sustained demand, and a permanent cultural shift into thinking that unborn babies are just harvestable tissue.
A Paramount exec said, 'Those people who want to rent are going to figure out ways to rent, and us restricting them from renting isn't going to turn it into a long term rental ending when we change to a new DRM scheme.'
There, FTFY
Also: Restricting. Nice to know they're owning up to that word.
No, really, I mean it. Some friends of mine were hired to write a game for an Energy Cooperative. The intention of the game was to promote energy safety (electrical and natural gas). But when digging games (call before digging), replacing electrical outlets (turn off appropriate breaker first), ladder work, kite flying, and gas detection and avoidance were brought to the table, the Cooperative rep gasped and said no, no, no! No dying! No danger! No possibility of fear or we'll get sued! So the game turned into a cutesy ball of flaming gas that turned off gas valves (without igniting them somehow), and a socket plug that turned off lights around his house to save energy. Wow, safety. Big waste of the Co-op's money.
It was probably a mistake for me to claim Christian theology as a point of contrast.
No, you were correct. Olddave is confusing theology with action. Non-Christians are "the world", and while teaching and proselytizing are things Christians are enjoined to do for "the world", laying a smack-down for sins isn't part of the religion. Of course, the legal system, with business permits etc. is another issue entirely. I'm sure plenty of non-Christians oppose things that might affect their communities too.
Pakistani Lawyer Wants Mark Zuckerberg Executed
That's not "a nightmare scenario of legal jurisdiction". That's an opportunity. Allow me to sever the Gordian knot of tangled jurisdictional issues with justice, THUNDERDOME style.
Tonight's card: Muslim Fundamentalist Lawyer vs. Mark Zuckerberg. Two men enter, one world wins.
Can we combine this concept with a "Golgafrinchan rocket"-esque trick and make them both think that one man leaves?
Hmm moderators seem to be very pro-Christian today.
No, just anti-religion like always. Any religion is fair game in their eyes. Their Scientology overlords have instructed them thusly.
Facebook's chat feature is http-only. My guess is it was a simple way to keep chat from working on the password reset pages (to prevent chat from stealing focus while typing in a password).
But this is not an ERROR, this is by design and should come with some warning. But an error? No, if the user knows the certificate and the site this is just a warning.
It _is_ just a warning. If the user knows the cert info (maybe printed on paper in front of him), he can verify it and add it to an exception list. I do that all the time for my own test servers. Firefox doesn't prevent people from connecting with self-signed certs, it just makes them think about the ramifications before they do.
But most unfortunate thing about FF is how it treats the self-signed certificates. It shows it as an SSL ERROR, to which exceptions must be made for the user to be able to enter the site. Can FF developers think about this fact for like longer than a second? It is not an error to run a site with a self-signed certificate, it is a configuration choice and it provides an important role to the site: encrypted traffic for login and for the data transferred to and from the client.
Why is FF showing this to the users as an error? This is not an error, this is by design and it is a special case of usage.
Because to verify a self-signed cert, every user has to call the site maintainer on the phone. Self-signed certs or Corporate CAs are great for in-house use where the sysadmins can install the certs for everyone, but since FF can't tell whether your unrecognized cert is being used to just feed html data to a user, or if the user is being asked to enter something confidential, it can't make a distinction between a reasonable use for self-signed and a MitM attempt. Since bad admins had been training people to "just click okay on the cert" for half a decade, FF took their warning up a notch and made people jump through hoops before they succumb to a potential MitM.
It can't work unless these sites already have an https version. If they redirect all 443 traffic to 80 like /., then it does nothing. It might work for facebook since it has a couple pages that allow https, but I'm sure things like their photo servers are probably http only.
People can make up names. I guess this explains #32-36, though.
In some cultures, you don't get assigned a real name until you're an adult and have had a sacred vision. Your true name is assigned to you, not made up by you.
I'm not going to store your name as a bitmap
Although in the case of people who do make up their own names, what have you got against (TM) between 1993 and 2000? Wikimedia stores his name as an SVG. Skads better than bmp.
Wasn't Nevada also proclaimed as the dumping ground for nuclear and toxic waste?
What do you think will make the ground so warm?
Unfortunately, exposure times for astrophotography need to be seconds to an hour long, even with modern digital imaging.
What if we built this large wooden badger?
The key problem in this situation is that the bowl will always have to point straight up.
Not if it's at the bottom of a tube in a centrifuge. Of course, spinning the end and dealing with the gyroscopic forces is a new problem, but you can't have everything. Assuming you can figure that out, you could take snapshots every X microseconds (whenever you're pointing at something you want).