...about how to best handle "colliding" gTLDs previously established by alternate roots? I don't see it anywhere in the linked PDF.
Oh, silly me...Vint Cerf has already waxed majestic about how alternate roots would be "disastrous" to the architecture of the Internet. So I suppose this means ICANN can (pun intended) conveniently ignore the entire issue of alternate roots, even though China has already established an alternate root, with no sign of the meltdown predicted by Dr. Cerf.
...when articles are tagged with the dreaded "primary sources" tag? In case you're not familiar with this tag, it basically states that the integrity of an article is in question because there are not enough cites from secondary sources (no, not a typo) as opposed to primary sources!
Anyone with an academic background will recognize this acceptance criteria as anathema, as primary sources are usually the only sources that count when it comes to rigorous research. That said, a comment earlier about Wikipedia articles striving for validity through consensus rather than rigorous research now makes it very clear to me what is going on. At the least, Jimmy should be honest and clearly indicate to users that Wikipedia is more a compendium of collective wisdom rather than factual content.
...and unless you are a high-level administrator (no, I'm not talking system administrator, but at the VP level), you stand a close to zero chance of winning the war. Oh, you might win a few skirmishes here and there (and I highly recommend picking those battles you know you can win), but there is simply little chance of converting a MS shop to an OSS shop.
Why? Because the suits are the ones who make the final purchasing decisions. And Microsoft, Blackboard, et al will not stand by idly while you attempt to dismantle their stronghold in your organization. They will send their hired guns to talk sense into your bosses, and if by chance you have a strong argument, they will be prepared and authorized to cut pricing and increase support. I tried this with Blackboard on our campus: I was succcessful in getting about 1000 students/semester enrolled in Moodle, but it was an uphill battle all the way, and by the time I left the campus for another teaching position, I was no closer to converting the college to Moodle (other than our little oasis) than I was 3 years previous.
A bit of advice: Don't try to convert the world to OSS. It simply won't happen (and you just need to look at the history of OSS to figure that out). Select some choice battles, battles you know you can win, and focus on those. Chances are, by the time you win those battles, you'll be ready to move on to something else.
2. Sites that I care about, like online banking or ones that contain personal information (LinkedIn, for example), have random line noise for passwords and I just write them down. There is a notebook in my desk with all the passwords. The desk is locked and in my home office. That is far more secure than trying to make them easy enough to memorize.
...then you're just deluding yourself if you believe your passwords are secure. Personally, I use passphrases. More secure than your passwords, and I don't have to write them down. Ever.
Report back to us the first time your house gets broken into, and the perp finds your little black book of passwords.
...now, if they gave me a desktop that no longer had files, file directories, links, and other archaic throwbacks that map directly (in a fashion) to the hardware, then I'd be impressed. Give me a "semantic" desktop like my desktop at home: The ability to quickly, and visually, rifle through documents stacked on my desk so I can find that recent copy of my dissertation I made. I don't need a filename -- just give me the document based upon some quantifiable characteristic about the document, such as keywords, format, or even the visual layout. Folders? I don't keep the stuff on my real desktop in a file cabinet, so why the hell would I want to use folders on my virtual desktop?
Look, the federal law is that H1B workers are paid the same as American workers in the same job.
Why does this fallacy continue to be perpetuated? It's been shown again and again and again that H1B visa holders are paid less than their domestic counterparts, regardless of what the law might say.
The contempt for the foreigners coming here on H1-B visas, and the companies that hire them, disgusts me. What makes you any better or more deserving than these people? The fact that you were born in the US? Please.
Hate to bust your frail grasp of reality, but US citizens aren't the only people in the world who have a strong sense of nationalism and are opposed to US companies hiring foreign labor to replace domestic labor. The Brits apparently have the same sense of nationalism..
So why don't you can your anti-American bullshit now that you've been called out?
It's interesting to compare this latest reincarnation of the human-powered sub to the eight-man, candle-lit Hunley that (briefly) prowled the waters off the coast of South Carolina during the (U.S.) Civil War.
I teach high school, and I consider myself something of an OSS expert...I've been using OSS since the 90's (actually made some money from it working in the industry for several years), several consulting gigs related to OSS, currently a developer on a couple of active OSS projects. I don't believe I fit the mold of your typical "OSS-challenged" teacher. But the problem I have is finding like-minded teachers who have a clue about how to integrate OSS technology in the classroom. My school district has taken some baby steps in this regard (they have a Moodle installation I'm helping with, and I use OSS tools in every one of my CS classes without fear of reprisal).
So, where do the teachers hang out who not only know how to spell "OSS" but are also actively promoting OSS in the public school system?
I agree with the improvements listed, but you should know that schools are reluctant to hire teachers with Master's degrees or higher.
Care to back that up with some research? If anything, schools are clamoring for "highly qualified" teachers (as per federal guidelines), and a teacher with a master's degree in the subject being taught is an easy way to check that teacher off as highly qualified.
Plus, the stipend isn't all that great. Mine comes to about $83/month...hardly enough to justify going off to get a master's degree (I got my CS master's years before I started teaching, but I'm not about to argue about $83/month).
Most teachers aren't smart. Sorry but it is true. They think they are they brag how they have a masters degree. (and complains that it is the lowest paid job that requires a masters)
So let me get this straight: You can barely form a grammatically-correct sentence, and you accuse teachers of being dumb? Maybe you should take a peek outside of that glass house you're living in. If you want to make a cogent argument concerning the relative intelligence (or lack thereof) of our teachers, let's start by raising the bar for yourself. Learn how to write, and then we'll listen to what you have to say.
...I'm glad that I've still got all four of my wisdom teeth! Sounds like they will be good insurance towards healthy teeth in my later years. Actually, I wonder if this biotechnology will spell the end to the "convenience" removal of wisdom teeth.
Technically, every business deal is an "historic" moment from the perspective of that exact deal probably never being consummated before. But I'm at a loss to figure out how a business lease qualifies as "historic."
We were doing this sort of thing when I worked for Raytheon in the late 90s, using overlapping satellite imagery from IKONOS to generate DTED (digital terrain elevation data) through some rather complex projections. The advantage of this method over Gaskell's is that there is no dependency on sunlight-based data. I fail to see what is new here...
Hey, if google wanted to hire me, I'd totally take it.
Here's a bit of advice from someone who's been down that road, Junior:
Steer clear -- well clear -- of any organization that, as part of their screening process, asks you about the details of an obscure (and obsolete) RFC.
I was invited for another interview, but I politely declined. I've never looked back.
The big difference (at least in the US) is that unions have collective bargaining rights (i.e., they are recognized by law as serving at the "voice" for a group of employees), whereas "professional bodies" or professional organizations don't enjoy that same legal right.
There is a place for unions, and they serve a distinctly different purpose from professional organizations. I've been in the IT industry for many years, and the way IT companies treat their employees in most cases is simply abysmal. How many of you have ever been laid off and had to fight for the benefits that you should have gotten without a fight (severance, insurance benefit extensions, etc.)? Those who have never been laid off, or are still young and really haven't experience the IT workplace as it really is, will most likely change their tune once reality hits them square in the face.
Air traffic controller specialist is one of the few occupations in the US where maximum age limits for initial hire (30 for civilians) are legal. In my younger days as an ATCS, I could easily remember a list of 8-10 pending aircraft callsigns while working a busy traffic pattern (sometimes a mix of small puddle jumpers and KC-135s and anything in between), while talking to the ground controller about something totally unrelated, like the party I went to the night before. The interesting thing is that you learn how to do this through practice, every day, 6 hours a day. After 10 years as a controller, I was able to remember random bits of information from simultaneous auditory and visual sources. It was automatic: I did not have to consciously think about it, or use memory tricks. It just happened.
Two years after I decided to move on to other things in life and left the tower, I discovered I couldn't remember shit. There are not many jobs out there that require you to perform dual n-back exercises on a daily basis (of course, back then I knew nothing about "dual n-back" exercises), and once I was no longer exposed to this type of brain simulation, my ability to remember short-term facts was drastically reduced.
These dual n-back exercises (I tried the JS version) are very similar to the type of mental processing controllers use to process queues of radio calls and traffic sequences. I'm looking forward to trying them out to see if some of my short-term memory comes back to me.
...give us back the right to remove story tags from our life!
Do I really have to put up with "smellyvagina" and similar inanely juvenile tags? It's a delicate dance as is to get Slashdot posts through our proxy (filtering comments and 3 and above keeps the filters happy), but if this crap keeps appearing on the front page, I'm just going to give up the fight and get my tech news (some of which is questionable as "tech news") someplace else.
...but since no one else has: I find all the code examples I need with a search engine. I gave up on Usenet many years ago. You should do the same. You might be surprised at the number of relevant items you get returned on a Google search.
Over time I *would* eventually recoup the costs of DIY. But it would take years to break even. And I have no idea how long it would take for the insurance amortizers to figure out the costs of vigilant DIY alarmers vs. happy outsourcers. I can't even hazard a guess which direction those splits would trend towards.
I spent just over $400 for a DIY (a Honeywell Vista 20P, from http://www.safemart.com/ used most of the existing sensors) to replace the piece of crap ADT system I had. Monitoring with a full-time CS is $9. My savings per month over ADT was about $31. Time to recoup expenses? A bit more than a year.
Double-check those figures. I think State Farm may have hoodwinked you. You can get professional monitoring with a DIY install, and even without the discount, you'll probably be ahead of the game.
FWIW, I live in a rural area and have a shotgun for vermin and bagging the odd rabbit. You my friend, have issues.
As the saying goes, the police are only minutes away when seconds count. I'm sure you won't hesitate to pull your shotgun when the seconds are ticking away, if you can find it in time.
...'If anybody found a piece of anything on the ground Monday morning, I would hope they wouldn't get too close to it,' [a NASA spokesman] said."
Hmm...and why might that be? Some stray ammonia molecules might still be clinging to said pieces? I read somewhere (probably here) that meteorites are actually cool to the touch if they arrive on the ground intact. I don't recall pieces of Columbia starting fires upon impact.
So if temperature isn't the issue, why would a NASA spokesman make such an inane statement?
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...about how to best handle "colliding" gTLDs previously established by alternate roots? I don't see it anywhere in the linked PDF.
Oh, silly me...Vint Cerf has already waxed majestic about how alternate roots would be "disastrous" to the architecture of the Internet. So I suppose this means ICANN can (pun intended) conveniently ignore the entire issue of alternate roots, even though China has already established an alternate root, with no sign of the meltdown predicted by Dr. Cerf.
...when articles are tagged with the dreaded "primary sources" tag? In case you're not familiar with this tag, it basically states that the integrity of an article is in question because there are not enough cites from secondary sources (no, not a typo) as opposed to primary sources!
Anyone with an academic background will recognize this acceptance criteria as anathema, as primary sources are usually the only sources that count when it comes to rigorous research. That said, a comment earlier about Wikipedia articles striving for validity through consensus rather than rigorous research now makes it very clear to me what is going on. At the least, Jimmy should be honest and clearly indicate to users that Wikipedia is more a compendium of collective wisdom rather than factual content.
...and unless you are a high-level administrator (no, I'm not talking system administrator, but at the VP level), you stand a close to zero chance of winning the war. Oh, you might win a few skirmishes here and there (and I highly recommend picking those battles you know you can win), but there is simply little chance of converting a MS shop to an OSS shop.
Why? Because the suits are the ones who make the final purchasing decisions. And Microsoft, Blackboard, et al will not stand by idly while you attempt to dismantle their stronghold in your organization. They will send their hired guns to talk sense into your bosses, and if by chance you have a strong argument, they will be prepared and authorized to cut pricing and increase support. I tried this with Blackboard on our campus: I was succcessful in getting about 1000 students/semester enrolled in Moodle, but it was an uphill battle all the way, and by the time I left the campus for another teaching position, I was no closer to converting the college to Moodle (other than our little oasis) than I was 3 years previous.
A bit of advice: Don't try to convert the world to OSS. It simply won't happen (and you just need to look at the history of OSS to figure that out). Select some choice battles, battles you know you can win, and focus on those. Chances are, by the time you win those battles, you'll be ready to move on to something else.
Report back to us the first time your house gets broken into, and the perp finds your little black book of passwords.
...from the Department of Information Resources (SRRPUB09). A little-known document outside of OSS circles, unfortunately.
...now, if they gave me a desktop that no longer had files, file directories, links, and other archaic throwbacks that map directly (in a fashion) to the hardware, then I'd be impressed. Give me a "semantic" desktop like my desktop at home: The ability to quickly, and visually, rifle through documents stacked on my desk so I can find that recent copy of my dissertation I made. I don't need a filename -- just give me the document based upon some quantifiable characteristic about the document, such as keywords, format, or even the visual layout. Folders? I don't keep the stuff on my real desktop in a file cabinet, so why the hell would I want to use folders on my virtual desktop?
Look, the federal law is that H1B workers are paid the same as American workers in the same job.
Why does this fallacy continue to be perpetuated? It's been shown again and again and again that H1B visa holders are paid less than their domestic counterparts, regardless of what the law might say.
The contempt for the foreigners coming here on H1-B visas, and the companies that hire them, disgusts me. What makes you any better or more deserving than these people? The fact that you were born in the US? Please.
Hate to bust your frail grasp of reality, but US citizens aren't the only people in the world who have a strong sense of nationalism and are opposed to US companies hiring foreign labor to replace domestic labor. The Brits apparently have the same sense of nationalism..
So why don't you can your anti-American bullshit now that you've been called out?
It's interesting to compare this latest reincarnation of the human-powered sub to the eight-man, candle-lit Hunley that (briefly) prowled the waters off the coast of South Carolina during the (U.S.) Civil War.
I teach high school, and I consider myself something of an OSS expert...I've been using OSS since the 90's (actually made some money from it working in the industry for several years), several consulting gigs related to OSS, currently a developer on a couple of active OSS projects. I don't believe I fit the mold of your typical "OSS-challenged" teacher. But the problem I have is finding like-minded teachers who have a clue about how to integrate OSS technology in the classroom. My school district has taken some baby steps in this regard (they have a Moodle installation I'm helping with, and I use OSS tools in every one of my CS classes without fear of reprisal).
So, where do the teachers hang out who not only know how to spell "OSS" but are also actively promoting OSS in the public school system?
I agree with the improvements listed, but you should know that schools are reluctant to hire teachers with Master's degrees or higher.
Care to back that up with some research? If anything, schools are clamoring for "highly qualified" teachers (as per federal guidelines), and a teacher with a master's degree in the subject being taught is an easy way to check that teacher off as highly qualified.
Plus, the stipend isn't all that great. Mine comes to about $83/month...hardly enough to justify going off to get a master's degree (I got my CS master's years before I started teaching, but I'm not about to argue about $83/month).
Most teachers aren't smart. Sorry but it is true. They think they are they brag how they have a masters degree. (and complains that it is the lowest paid job that requires a masters)
So let me get this straight: You can barely form a grammatically-correct sentence, and you accuse teachers of being dumb? Maybe you should take a peek outside of that glass house you're living in. If you want to make a cogent argument concerning the relative intelligence (or lack thereof) of our teachers, let's start by raising the bar for yourself. Learn how to write, and then we'll listen to what you have to say.
Must not be a widely-used application then. While this approach is laudable, it's hardly sustainable for any project of substance.
...I'm glad that I've still got all four of my wisdom teeth! Sounds like they will be good insurance towards healthy teeth in my later years. Actually, I wonder if this biotechnology will spell the end to the "convenience" removal of wisdom teeth.
Technically, every business deal is an "historic" moment from the perspective of that exact deal probably never being consummated before. But I'm at a loss to figure out how a business lease qualifies as "historic."
We were doing this sort of thing when I worked for Raytheon in the late 90s, using overlapping satellite imagery from IKONOS to generate DTED (digital terrain elevation data) through some rather complex projections. The advantage of this method over Gaskell's is that there is no dependency on sunlight-based data. I fail to see what is new here...
Hey, if google wanted to hire me, I'd totally take it.
Here's a bit of advice from someone who's been down that road, Junior:
Steer clear -- well clear -- of any organization that, as part of their screening process, asks you about the details of an obscure (and obsolete) RFC.
I was invited for another interview, but I politely declined. I've never looked back.
The big difference (at least in the US) is that unions have collective bargaining rights (i.e., they are recognized by law as serving at the "voice" for a group of employees), whereas "professional bodies" or professional organizations don't enjoy that same legal right.
There is a place for unions, and they serve a distinctly different purpose from professional organizations. I've been in the IT industry for many years, and the way IT companies treat their employees in most cases is simply abysmal. How many of you have ever been laid off and had to fight for the benefits that you should have gotten without a fight (severance, insurance benefit extensions, etc.)? Those who have never been laid off, or are still young and really haven't experience the IT workplace as it really is, will most likely change their tune once reality hits them square in the face.
Air traffic controller specialist is one of the few occupations in the US where maximum age limits for initial hire (30 for civilians) are legal. In my younger days as an ATCS, I could easily remember a list of 8-10 pending aircraft callsigns while working a busy traffic pattern (sometimes a mix of small puddle jumpers and KC-135s and anything in between), while talking to the ground controller about something totally unrelated, like the party I went to the night before. The interesting thing is that you learn how to do this through practice, every day, 6 hours a day. After 10 years as a controller, I was able to remember random bits of information from simultaneous auditory and visual sources. It was automatic: I did not have to consciously think about it, or use memory tricks. It just happened.
Two years after I decided to move on to other things in life and left the tower, I discovered I couldn't remember shit. There are not many jobs out there that require you to perform dual n-back exercises on a daily basis (of course, back then I knew nothing about "dual n-back" exercises), and once I was no longer exposed to this type of brain simulation, my ability to remember short-term facts was drastically reduced.
These dual n-back exercises (I tried the JS version) are very similar to the type of mental processing controllers use to process queues of radio calls and traffic sequences. I'm looking forward to trying them out to see if some of my short-term memory comes back to me.
Others pointed out there's also a Javascipt version [dual-n-back.com] that's much more light-weight.
Fascinating...I'm getting an IQ boost just trying to figure out WTF I'm supposed to do with this...
...give us back the right to remove story tags from our life!
Do I really have to put up with "smellyvagina" and similar inanely juvenile tags? It's a delicate dance as is to get Slashdot posts through our proxy (filtering comments and 3 and above keeps the filters happy), but if this crap keeps appearing on the front page, I'm just going to give up the fight and get my tech news (some of which is questionable as "tech news") someplace else.
...but since no one else has: I find all the code examples I need with a search engine. I gave up on Usenet many years ago. You should do the same. You might be surprised at the number of relevant items you get returned on a Google search.
Over time I *would* eventually recoup the costs of DIY. But it would take years to break even. And I have no idea how long it would take for the insurance amortizers to figure out the costs of vigilant DIY alarmers vs. happy outsourcers. I can't even hazard a guess which direction those splits would trend towards.
I spent just over $400 for a DIY (a Honeywell Vista 20P, from http://www.safemart.com/ used most of the existing sensors) to replace the piece of crap ADT system I had. Monitoring with a full-time CS is $9. My savings per month over ADT was about $31. Time to recoup expenses? A bit more than a year.
Double-check those figures. I think State Farm may have hoodwinked you. You can get professional monitoring with a DIY install, and even without the discount, you'll probably be ahead of the game.
As the saying goes, the police are only minutes away when seconds count. I'm sure you won't hesitate to pull your shotgun when the seconds are ticking away, if you can find it in time.
...'If anybody found a piece of anything on the ground Monday morning, I would hope they wouldn't get too close to it,' [a NASA spokesman] said."
Hmm...and why might that be? Some stray ammonia molecules might still be clinging to said pieces? I read somewhere (probably here) that meteorites are actually cool to the touch if they arrive on the ground intact. I don't recall pieces of Columbia starting fires upon impact.
So if temperature isn't the issue, why would a NASA spokesman make such an inane statement?