Mark me down as Flamebait if you must, but I'm tired of seeing bigotry against business. It's no different than bigotry against any other group of
people, and I think it needs to stop.
So let me get this straight: Because I think it would great if I could "be my own boss," set my own schedule, do my own thing, not be enslaved to the corporate ethic, I'm guilty of bigotry? Having worked in that very corporate ethic, I believe I'm (1) qualified to pass judgement based on my experiences and (2) free to eschew corporatism. To be fair with you, I couldn't agree more about your statement that the very same corporate entities I rail against are the reason there are teaching opportunities in IT. But c'mon--just because I'm tired of lining the pockets of shareholders and corporate bigwigs, only to be discarded like so much used Kleenex, I'm comparable in some way to members of a hate group?
I won't answer that question, because I think the absurdity of the comparison is obvious.
...teaching others what you know about IT? I teach at several local community colleges, after five years of consulting work and finally being laid off at my last job. The pay is decent ($35-$40 per classroom hour), I can set my own schedule, and I can teach pretty much what I want the way I want. It gives me a great excuse to play on lots of *nix machines, write programs, and learn from my students as well.
Instead of lining the pockets of greedy company owners/CEOs, I work for a non-profit organization which is there to support you, rather than hinder your progress. Layoffs? College enrollments are on the rise due to the massive numbers of IT layoffs! Have you ever heard of a college instructor getting laid off? It simply doesn't happen, because of the inverse relationship between IT employment levels and the need for college-level IT instruction.
Plus, I find teaching to be immensely satisfying, both on a personal and spiritual level. What more noble endeavor is there than to help others? I can safely say that I've never felt "personally satisfied" at any consultant gig I've done.
If you're happy following all the other unemployed IT sharks that are being chummed by headhunters with no jobs to offer and companies intent on building their resume files for when the "turnaround" comes, more power to you. If you're looking for something that's not only fun, but honorable, check out your local colleges.
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Many flight schools throughout the US offer non-US citizens the opportunity of flight instruction. One reason is that the US has some of the most lax airspace rules in the world. For instance, in Canada, one must be instrument-rated to fly at night. Not so in the US. In Russia, all flights are controlled, with no exceptions. Again, not so in the US.
At the risk of being labeled a racist, it seems to me the US should strictly limit the availability of all high-tech training (including such things as flight instruction, graduate study, and high-tech internships) for all non-US citizens. Why must the US continue to be the training grounds for the world's terrorists? God knows we have problems as it is with our own citizens. Maybe it's time we close our ridiculously porous borders to foreigners who seek to come to the US only to take advantage of our advanced technological facilities and educational opportunities.
Many here have said life as we know it will definitely change in the US. Let that change start by restricting our borders before restricting our freedoms.
The second option is that they can deny all incoming requests to port 80, since the UA forbids running servers anyway, and slowly wait for the
code-red running machines to go away. This is what they did
Not in Dallas, they didn't.
I'm not advocating any kind of port 80 blocking. It would be a trivial matter to simply block the offenders at their gateway. All @home has to do is set up a monitor on their IP block. This is proactive, but there's no need to monitor traffic in depth, as you say: The morons announce themselves.
I'm glad to see Qwest taking care of its customers. @Home hasn't done a damn thing to block the morons who are still propagating Code Red (my Apache box gets hammered by all versions, 99% of which are from @home IP blocks). I think asking for a refund is silly, but OTOH I think @home and other ISP's should be taking proactive measures to actively block the legions of fools who have no idea they've been rooted.
I've often wondered what, exactly, do the words "in connection with" mean? How far into your internal LAN do the tendrils of @Home extend? If I'm behind a firewall, and I'm simply shuttling packets across the firewall to a web server, can my web server, which isn't connected directly to @Home, be considered "connected with" the service?
...on @home for those who run small, low-bandwidth http servers. Most of the attacks on my Apache box have been from the 65.x.x.x subnet belonging to @home. I suspect @home will start scanning for open 80 ports, much as they did with port 119 when @home received the USENET death penalty.
For years, virii in the medical industry have been associated with people or places. So, the poor town of Coxsackie, NY has its place in history as the origin of the Coxsackie (hand-and-foot) virus. Drs. Epstein and Barr will forever be associated with the virulent virus that bears their name. Why not name computer viruses/worms/self-propagators after the systems for which they are targeted?
We could talk about the Microsoft Sircam virus, or the Microsoft CodeRed worm, or even the Linux Ramen worm. Forever sear into the minds of the ever-forgetful public the platform which fell victim, PR which most companies and organizations will try valiantly to avoid.
I've done business with Bass Home, and was very pleased with the service. They're able to get alarm system parts that are otherwise locked up by the alarm service cabal (ever notice how alarm device wholesalers don't do OTC business?).
Try SmartHome.com. Lots of X10 stuff, no pop-up/pop-under ads or other obnoxious stuff. I've never ordered from them, but have been getting catalogs from them every few months for the last few years.
It really doesn't matter that the corporate world doesn't believe in on-line privacy. It's a moot point: Any expections of privacy are folly unless attempts are made to somehow obfuscate the data being transmitted. It's really as simple as that. Articles like this simply support this idea. Obfuscation (through encryption or whatever) is the key to the problem.
These kinds of articles aren't even really news, in the sense that corporations will always have the upper-hand in terms of employee "privacy." People need to get used to the idea, and circumvent the problem instead of simply bitch about it.
...can be found here. There was also an article in a recent Discover issue about his last meal, June or July, but it doesn't seem to be on the magazine's website.
Currently, @home "looks the other way" when it comes to running mail servers, nameservers, web servers, etc. on their service (even though their rules expressly prohibit this). I wonder what AOL's stance will be in this regard? Will they attempt to "corner the market" by blocking, say, outgoing port 25 traffic, or incoming port 80 traffic?
Apparently, there are some severe restrictions in the US with regard to laser intensity at various colors. He had to get a special permit to display his show in a public forum. You can find out about the standards here.
...when someone comes up with a way to dogear a page on my monitor.
The fundamental problem with books on CD is that I can find information faster in a well-thumbed, well-used printed book than you can with your shiny new CD and search engine. What needs to be done in the world of virtual publishing is some way to provide a "thumbing" function that allows you to thumb through a virtual book as if it was the real thing, without having to wait for screen updates on every page, etc. Hmm...maybe there's a patent in here somewhere...
Technically, there are no power limits for certain amateur radio license holders in the 2.4GHz range other than those that address interference to the primary allocation holder (amateur radio is secondary in the 2.4GHz range). Plus, amateurs are permitted under FCC regulation to modify their equipment (including commmercial equipment) as long as the mods do not generate interference above certain limits.
Hmm...I've been using an OpenNIC NS for several months now, and have had no problems. If you're serious and not simply trolling, drop me a note and we can try to figure out what the problem is.
So michael, what are the chances that you have just been suckered into promulgating the hype of what turns out to be just another wireless venture? I think the chances are pretty strong, dear michael, given that solid-state signal synthesis has been around for quite some time now.
I'm curious, though, about something you gushed about in the heat of the moment:
The idea here
is to have a radio device capable of transmitting/receiving over a wide range of wavelengths without any
moving parts...
How is it possible to use something called microelectromechanical technology without the benefit of moving parts?
It took a while to find anything that actually said what this man was accused of doing.
Umm...if you had actually bothered to follow the first link in the/. post, and scroll down, you would have found this:
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And all this time, I thought it was OK to blame someone else for getting laid off. Now I come to find it was actually my fault all along.
Guess I ought to give them back their laptop.
So let me get this straight: Because I think it would great if I could "be my own boss," set my own schedule, do my own thing, not be enslaved to the corporate ethic, I'm guilty of bigotry? Having worked in that very corporate ethic, I believe I'm (1) qualified to pass judgement based on my experiences and (2) free to eschew corporatism. To be fair with you, I couldn't agree more about your statement that the very same corporate entities I rail against are the reason there are teaching opportunities in IT. But c'mon--just because I'm tired of lining the pockets of shareholders and corporate bigwigs, only to be discarded like so much used Kleenex, I'm comparable in some way to members of a hate group?
I won't answer that question, because I think the absurdity of the comparison is obvious.
Instead of lining the pockets of greedy company owners/CEOs, I work for a non-profit organization which is there to support you, rather than hinder your progress. Layoffs? College enrollments are on the rise due to the massive numbers of IT layoffs! Have you ever heard of a college instructor getting laid off? It simply doesn't happen, because of the inverse relationship between IT employment levels and the need for college-level IT instruction.
Plus, I find teaching to be immensely satisfying, both on a personal and spiritual level. What more noble endeavor is there than to help others? I can safely say that I've never felt "personally satisfied" at any consultant gig I've done.
If you're happy following all the other unemployed IT sharks that are being chummed by headhunters with no jobs to offer and companies intent on building their resume files for when the "turnaround" comes, more power to you. If you're looking for something that's not only fun, but honorable, check out your local colleges.
At the risk of being labeled a racist, it seems to me the US should strictly limit the availability of all high-tech training (including such things as flight instruction, graduate study, and high-tech internships) for all non-US citizens. Why must the US continue to be the training grounds for the world's terrorists? God knows we have problems as it is with our own citizens. Maybe it's time we close our ridiculously porous borders to foreigners who seek to come to the US only to take advantage of our advanced technological facilities and educational opportunities.
Many here have said life as we know it will definitely change in the US. Let that change start by restricting our borders before restricting our freedoms.
Not in Dallas, they didn't.
I'm not advocating any kind of port 80 blocking. It would be a trivial matter to simply block the offenders at their gateway. All @home has to do is set up a monitor on their IP block. This is proactive, but there's no need to monitor traffic in depth, as you say: The morons announce themselves.
I'm glad to see Qwest taking care of its customers. @Home hasn't done a damn thing to block the morons who are still propagating Code Red (my Apache box gets hammered by all versions, 99% of which are from @home IP blocks). I think asking for a refund is silly, but OTOH I think @home and other ISP's should be taking proactive measures to actively block the legions of fools who have no idea they've been rooted.
Here's a list you can start with.
News for nerds. Stuff that matters. Geography for geeks.
Now if we could just teach the /. boys proofreading skills, we'd almost be scholarly.
I've often wondered what, exactly, do the words "in connection with" mean? How far into your internal LAN do the tendrils of @Home extend? If I'm behind a firewall, and I'm simply shuttling packets across the firewall to a web server, can my web server, which isn't connected directly to @Home, be considered "connected with" the service?
...on @home for those who run small, low-bandwidth http servers. Most of the attacks on my Apache box have been from the 65.x.x.x subnet belonging to @home. I suspect @home will start scanning for open 80 ports, much as they did with port 119 when @home received the USENET death penalty.
We could talk about the Microsoft Sircam virus, or the Microsoft CodeRed worm, or even the Linux Ramen worm. Forever sear into the minds of the ever-forgetful public the platform which fell victim, PR which most companies and organizations will try valiantly to avoid.
I've done business with Bass Home, and was very pleased with the service. They're able to get alarm system parts that are otherwise locked up by the alarm service cabal (ever notice how alarm device wholesalers don't do OTC business?).
Try SmartHome.com. Lots of X10 stuff, no pop-up/pop-under ads or other obnoxious stuff. I've never ordered from them, but have been getting catalogs from them every few months for the last few years.
These kinds of articles aren't even really news, in the sense that corporations will always have the upper-hand in terms of employee "privacy." People need to get used to the idea, and circumvent the problem instead of simply bitch about it.
Ergo, my use of "passphraseless" instead of "passwordless".
...can be found here. There was also an article in a recent Discover issue about his last meal, June or July, but it doesn't seem to be on the magazine's website.
Currently, @home "looks the other way" when it comes to running mail servers, nameservers, web servers, etc. on their service (even though their rules expressly prohibit this). I wonder what AOL's stance will be in this regard? Will they attempt to "corner the market" by blocking, say, outgoing port 25 traffic, or incoming port 80 traffic?
And for a good reason...
The fundamental problem with books on CD is that I can find information faster in a well-thumbed, well-used printed book than you can with your shiny new CD and search engine. What needs to be done in the world of virtual publishing is some way to provide a "thumbing" function that allows you to thumb through a virtual book as if it was the real thing, without having to wait for screen updates on every page, etc. Hmm...maybe there's a patent in here somewhere...
Technically, there are no power limits for certain amateur radio license holders in the 2.4GHz range other than those that address interference to the primary allocation holder (amateur radio is secondary in the 2.4GHz range). Plus, amateurs are permitted under FCC regulation to modify their equipment (including commmercial equipment) as long as the mods do not generate interference above certain limits.
Hmm...I've been using an OpenNIC NS for several months now, and have had no problems. If you're serious and not simply trolling, drop me a note and we can try to figure out what the problem is.
I'm curious, though, about something you gushed about in the heat of the moment:
The idea here is to have a radio device capable of transmitting/receiving over a wide range of wavelengths without any moving parts...
How is it possible to use something called microelectromechanical technology without the benefit of moving parts?
On second thought, maybe I'll just stick with old-fashioned air.
Umm...if you had actually bothered to follow the first link in the /. post, and scroll down, you would have found this:
Find out more by sending mail to my Perl robot at <fund@stonehenge.com>. (The content of the message will be ignored. Be sure you have a valid e-mail return address.)
Following the instructions as indicated provides the necessary (albeit brief) detail. No need to continue lamenting about paucity of information.