Comment Double-Cross (Score 2) 58
I'm glad everyone is so skeptical of this. My first thought was, "oh, so then when they hack the crap out of us and we call to say we're having a 'cyber crisis' they can deny it directly..."
Comment How? (Score 1) 285
In what area of technology did you find had the most holes for your exploitation? Was it mostly bad programming? Bad hardware? Bad protocols? Cheap companies (i.e. the security flaws were known but not addressed)?
Comment anonymous (Score 1) 744
an "anonymous" reader linked this?
Comment .gov fail (Score 1) 182
whelp doesn't work on my chrome or ie on win 7 64 ultimate. typical .gov. -- I'll bet even the javascript programmers needed security clearance to work on it.
Comment so who won? (Score 1) 294
someone give me a one-word answer. Which is better: OpenOffice or LibreOffice?
Comment here are a few (Score 1) 615
slide rule,
long-hand square roots,
minidisc players,
zoetropes,
cuneiform --
These commentators were pretty presumptuous. "No tool ever goes completely out of use" is a much stronger statement than "every tool I can think of is still in use"--because you won't think of a tool you've never heard of or never used.
Comment free edits (Score 2) 137
Due to recent edits on wikipedia, wikipedia is today, in fact, having it's 250th anniversary.
Comment My Grandma and my dog, Old Blue (Score 1) 333
everyone has AIDS! AIDS AIDS AIDS!
AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS!
Everyone has AIDS!
And so this is the end of our story. And everyone is dead from AIDS. it took from me my best friend, my only true pal--He died of AI-HAY-HAY-IDS...
Comment this is a two-way street (Score 1) 693
I think cheating is a SERIOUS issue and have no patience or respect for what these students did. HOWEVER, I think it's sloppy teaching to reuse the same midterms and questions over the years. Professors are paid to teach. Them writing their own material should be a part of their job description. They know this stuff inside and out--that's why they're teaching it. Now, I understand their job is busy and difficult in many ways, but I think recycling test material like this shows a disconnect from the professor and his students, and from the professors and the material. At least have some essay questions, or rewrite even 25% of the multiple choice questions would be a great start. Just having the TAs copy and paste is NOT an appropriate way to teach or to write an exam.
Comment Re:Here's a few (Score 1) 614
awesome. exactly agree 100%.
Comment .NET (Score 2, Insightful) 897
If you knew .NET I'd have a job for you right now. Love it or hate it, MSSQL is still the fastest kid on the block, and its .NET reporting tools aren't going anywhere anytime soon.
Comment This looks like a job for--Mythbusters! (Score 1) 147
sounds like something for the Mythbusters to check out!
Submission + - Ph.D. in Humanities (xtranormal.com)
Chaseshaw writes: xtranormal has a hilarious video depicting the Ph.D. in humanities route.
Submission + - The Kilogram Is No Longer Valid, Says U.S. (foxnews.com) 2
Velcroman1 writes: For 130 years, the kilogram has weighed precisely one kilogram. Hasn't it? The U.S. government isn't so sure. The precise weight of the kilogram is based on a platinum-iridium cylinder manufactured 130 years ago; it's kept in a vault in France at the International Bureau of Weights and Measures. Forty of the units were manufactured at the time, to standardize the measure of weight. But due to material degradation and the effects of quantum physics, the weight of those blocks has changed over time. That's right, the kilogram no longer weighs 1 kilogram, according to the National Institute of Standards and Technology. And it's time to move to a different standard anyway. A proposed revision would remove the final connection to that physical bit of matter, said Ambler Thompson, a NIST scientist involved in the international effort. “We get rid of the last artifact."
Submission + - SPAM: Police To Get Facebook Lessons
jhernik writes: Detectives will be trained to track down criminals on social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter
The police are to receive training on how to use Facebook and Twitter to catch people committing serious crimes. The National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA) will overhaul its training modules to include sessions on the social networking sites for detectives.
Detective Training
“This programme is a vital part of the career pathway for detectives and the new training covers sensitive areas of policing where limited guidance existed previously,” said deputy chief constable Nick Gargan, acting head of the NPIA, in a statement to the Press Association.
“These improvements are exactly what detectives need to tackle the challenges and complexities of modern policing effectively,” he added. “The changes underline the importance to having a national agency to provide guidance and train detectives to a single high standard so they can work on investigations in any part of the country and give their colleagues and the public the best quality service in fighting crime.”
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The police are to receive training on how to use Facebook and Twitter to catch people committing serious crimes. The National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA) will overhaul its training modules to include sessions on the social networking sites for detectives.
Detective Training
“This programme is a vital part of the career pathway for detectives and the new training covers sensitive areas of policing where limited guidance existed previously,” said deputy chief constable Nick Gargan, acting head of the NPIA, in a statement to the Press Association.
“These improvements are exactly what detectives need to tackle the challenges and complexities of modern policing effectively,” he added. “The changes underline the importance to having a national agency to provide guidance and train detectives to a single high standard so they can work on investigations in any part of the country and give their colleagues and the public the best quality service in fighting crime.”
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