That's a test of bash specifically. If you want to see how vulnurable your system could potentially be, change bash to sh. Since all sorts of things will spawn shells for some purpose or another, any of them is an attack vector.

Most Linux distros (except Ubuntu and derivatives, and more recent Debian) will be vulnurable because sh symlinks to bash. But for non-Linux *NIX systems like BSD, this may or may not be true.

Patch anyway, but if you've got a vulnurable public-facing system, you may want to go over your firewall logs as well.

This is not funny! This is sad. And all too true.

Based on their source of data, I question whether the numbers have been adjusted for experience, years of service, and qualification.

Teaching is largely a unionized job. In a union, compensation is more or less set in stone based on years of service and certain qualification criteria (degree, etc.). There's not much wiggle room. Administration is a bit different, as is higher education teaching, but for K-12, I'd imagine the difference in salary is not related to discrimination whether conscious or subconscious.

Wouldn't that make her actually a him?

I kid, I kid.

If you want to talk about wild, black holes are about as wild as they get. Collapse of matter into a singularity that not even light can escape? Seriously? I mean, there's some wacky stuff out there. But there's nothing quite as crazy as the singularity, which is 0 and +/- infinity all wrapped up into one thing.

It is a much less crazy universe without black holes. Occam's razor however, so far has favored it, in the same way that it's favored dark matter. That's all.

Replace "white people" with active and retired military servicemen and women, and it's pretty much reality.

They do a lot of infectious disease combat testing on our troops. It probably started out of necessity, and that's still the excuse, but it evolved into just treating our soldiers as an easy supply of ideal human test subjects. Makes you wonder if those troops they're sending over were exactly for this purpose.

Quite impossible. If I privately sold you a LP record for $20 cash, how is the IRS going to trace that? Or what if we traded, a LP worth $20 fair market for a LaserDisc worth $15 fair market? They can't track these kinds of transactions now, and they won't be able to no matter what. Tax evasion would skyrocket if you go to a use/sales tax.

Income tax is actually pretty good. What's bad are the complex web of deductable items. A non-discriminatory revenue tax, with no write offs, would be perfect. And if you work for someone other than yourself, you wouldn't even have to file your taxes every year. Your company would just file it for you. The IRS would calculate and deduct automatically so that if you worked multiple jobs and had multiple sources of income, it would all be accounted for. And that would be the end of all that April 15th headache.

Front pocket no less. Something is very, very wrong.

It's not just the calls. Text messages, e-mails, location data, IMEI number, heck even the make, model, and OS version of your phone gets captured by these things (probably--most likely).

In reality, it's not so different from what would be captured via a wiretap. All this does is circumvents the need for a warrant.

Oh yeah? I can use my phone to microwave food. And I don't even live in Soviet Russia.

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Just FYI, these types of things are more for the poly-sci majors out there, not for tech graduates. Unless you want to get into politics, which I doubt most tech people would or even could, this type of thing isn't for you.

Judge that however you will.

It cuts both ways. Most people in the industry jump after 2 years for better pay, or to a startup. How many people stay on for 5, 10 years? Why would you spend 50-100K training someone just so they can leave and work for your competitor or anyone else just because the pay's better? There's a reason besides cost savings that companies stopped training their employees and choose to incur the extra cost of getting more experienced individuals.

I mostly agree with GP (the AC, not GGP) in that, if you're good, you're always in demand, and can make a good living. Especially in this current market, there's no reason anyone who's good can't find a job other than that person isn't looking hard enough. If you're not that good, sorry, can't help you there. You should try to aim lower. Or shoot for something a little different. Now, you might not necessarily do as well as GP, but then again, you don't know what GP's qualifications actually are.

As a US citizen working a tech job, I don't see H1B's as competition. I do see offshoring as competition, but with respect to the tech sector, only for the menial and uninteresting jobs that I probably wouldn't do, or would quickly graduate from anyway. There'll always be cool stuff here, if you're good enough for it. I do blame the general state of the education system for producing poorly educated people with no understanding of fundamentals and little ability to think for themselves, but that's a completely separate and much bigger issue and IMHO, a conspiracy orchestrated by the people in power to kill the middle class. And if you agree with that last statement, then the solution is not to whine or rail against foreign talent, but to better yourself and if not possible, then sorry, that's life; suck it up and better your children instead.

Ok, so the whole stupid thing could've been an act, a ploy to get voter sympathy. But it's a well known fact that Cheney and Rove are both incredibly brilliant people, and there is plenty of evidence and testimony to point out that Cheney and Rove were behind a lot of the things Bush backed and the Bush administration as a whole did.

If Bush did not explicitly sign off on many of these things, at the very least, he was complacent and, not being in control of his own people, weak.

And I think considering all things, the latter is more likely than the former. And to be fair, you can say the same about Obama. Filling your ranks with 'yes men' who leech off your popularity on good days and point fingers on bad days is much the same as filling your ranks with people who ignore your presence and act of their own volition. Nothing good can come of it.

If we did that, I think they'd have better stuff to do than create conspiracy theories. Like figure out how to get back for one.