wessto - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Tough Shit. (Score 1) 1259

by wessto on Monday October 19, 2009 @01:02AM (#29790227) Attached to: Student Loan Interest Rankles College Grads

Devil's advocate here...How about medical / dental schools where 4-year tuition is ~250k no matter where you go. How exactly does one do this without taking out loans? Yes, I know there are some rich daddies out there who finance their childrens tuition to this level, but seriously...some degrees you can't come by without taking out loans of some amount.

Comment Re:Who cares? (Score 1) 835

by wessto on Tuesday September 08, 2009 @08:52PM (#29360125) Attached to: Does Your College Or University Support Linux?

At my dental school they tried to make us take exams using some software called "Secure Exam Browser" which apparently only ran on winxp. At the time I had a linux distro on my laptop and was trying to use winxp in parallels to get it working. There was some check that the program did to see if it was being run on a virtual machine or not and consequently it would not run. It all has to do with the fact that there is no trust that you won't screen grab, etc. Royal PITA if you ask me. Half the time the exam didn't work anyway so it didn't really cause much trouble in the end.

Comment Where's my credit card? (Score 1) 131

by wessto on Saturday September 05, 2009 @01:12PM (#29324195) Attached to: Mach 6 Test Aircraft Set For Trials

For some reason at first glance I read "Mach 6 Test Aircraft for sale" and I reached for my wallet...

Submission + - You're a Nobody Unless Your Name Googles Well

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Ant

on Tuesday May 08, 2007 @09:33PM

Ant writes: "The Wall Street Journal says that in the age of Google, being special increasingly requires standing out from the crowd online. Many people aspire for themselves — or their offspring — to command prominent placement in the top few links on search engines or social networking sites' member lookup functions. But, as more people flood the Web, that's becoming an especially tall order for those with common names ... ... People increasingly rely on search engines to find things they want to read, music they want to hear, people and companies they want to do business with. United States/U.S. Internet users conduct hundreds of millions of search queries daily. About 7% of all searches are for a person's name, estimates search engine Ask.com. More than 80% of executive recruiters said they routinely use search engines to learn more about candidates, according to a recent survey by executive networking firm ExecuNet. Nearly 40% of individuals have used search engines to look up friends or acquaintances with whom they'd lost touch, according to a Harris Interactive survey commissioned by Microsoft Corp.'s MSN unit. Seen on Digg."

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