Your application server shouldn't be running SSL.

I can't think of one good reason to expose your application server to the internet.

While I did my PhD at one of the best technical universities in Europe (and on the planet), I was paid about 60% of an industrial salary. Doing a PhD and not getting paid enough to live off it decently is pure insanity. Of course you have some teaching duties (40% in my case), but you learn a lot there too, like presenting stuff and speaking in front of a group. Invaluable in basically any technical job on advanced level.

http://www.uscis.gov/archive/a...

Government press release you could have googled yourself. Feel free to continue whining that nothing is ever enforced in this area of law.

Wow... rationalize much?

I bet you are the AC you are responding to.

http://www.politifact.com/trut...

Food for thought. Would you really want to live in Venezuela? Hitler made a lot of improvements in Nazi Germany before he became the man we love to hate. Somehow I'm not sure that making the trains run on time by making it so people no longer want to ride them is a good thing. But hey, to each their own.

That is some gnarled piece of steel wool he's got glued to his upper lip there.

And I certainly hope that hat's not really pink.

The British are not really part of Europe...

Um, this is the worst use of the word "fascism" that I've seen in a year.

Go look it up.

In most of Europe, you do not need a car, because they have something called "public transportation" that, unlike in almost all of the US, does not suck. Example: Here the longest distance to the next stop (city area, 350'000 inhabitants) is 200m, and during the day its one Bus/Tram every 7 minutes. A car is completely redundant. Instead use the Bus or Tram ride to read, something you do all the time as a student anyways.

It's not a lie. It's a self-evident truth. Barack Obama's birth certificate is not available to the public. You make a fine moron.

I tried using Google to search for articles on the era before Google, but it returned nothing.

>But it sounds like an absurd example of a false economy: Even at relatively cheap schools, the cost of running a student through is nontrivial. It seems like complete insanity to waste expensive instructional time on somebody who can't concentrate properly for want of a few dollars worth of calories. Nobody's interests are well served by that.

The cost is to the student, not to the institution. It doesn't cost the institution more to educate a hungry student, even if they can't think as well.

I see it as part of the challenge of going to college. I made $18k a year in grad school working as a TA, while living in San Diego. From that, I had to pay for books, car/gas/insurance/registration fees, rent, food, and everything else. Which wasn't easy. But I did it, and graduated from college with only about four thousand dollars in student loans, and that I had to take out because my car's engine and transmission went out within three weeks of each other and I had to put them on my credit card.

It was like a game to me. I had a budget of $10 or less per day for food. Two $1 bacon cheeseburgers and a $1 frosty for lunch, a $4 bowl of rice and orange chicken for dinner, and I still had enough left over for a snack at night or in the afternoon. The next day I'd get a $5 footlong for lunch, and four tacos for $2 for dinner, and so forth.

People who are just eating Top Ramen are just doing it wrong, in my opinion.

Indeed. And if you chose the right one, you also get solid command of a second language out of that, an invaluable asset if you want to do anything international.

I love that you called the black President "my boy"? Do you even realize you're doing it? Is it completely unconscious?

But anyway, Afghanistan was an inherited war. I'd explain the dynamics involving Pakistan, our nightmare "ally", but even if you understood, you wouldn't converse, you'd use another slur and ignore the point.

That is a road not many can take without sucking badly (and most that take this road do indeed suck badly, many of them do not know it). High-quality education is what allows you to stand on the shoulders of giants. No amount of talent can replace that. In fact, talent is orthogonal to it. You need both to be good.

I do know a number of people in the CS field that had abbreviated educations (BS only) or educations with the wrong focus point (economics, then they were doing IT security work) and that invested in more (MA, PhD in one case). All say that it was very much worth their while. All also say that they could not even see or only very fuzzily see what they were missing before.

FTFU.

Fixed that for us.

Im not sure if youre serious.

A multi-ton object would not have any appreciable gravitational pull. The largest man-made objects ever created do not create an appreciable gravitational field. Using the calculator here:
http://astro.unl.edu/classacti...
An asteroid with a mass of 4*10^18kg at a distance of 1km from a Saturn 5 rocket fully loaded (Mass of 4 * 10^7kg) would feel an acceleration of 0.000000001 m/s^2, and would accelerate the rocket at a rate 10 orders of magnitude higher. The only noticeable effect would be the rocket being pulled into the asteroid, barely altering its course before joining it.

That completely ignores how insanely expensive even that minuscule experiment would be.

Corned beef AND cabbage?...

Beano works for me. However, for it to really work well, I've found you need 2-3 pills per serving of food, typically 6-9 pills per meal, which (even for the generic version) can cost more than the meal itself!

Yep, there you go. Keep repeating the lie, never back down. You'd make a fine tea bagger.

>... 80% of you in the US are competing over 5% of the money in the economy, you guys have no idea how unequal your society has become and you keep voting for more of getting screwed.

Anyone who talks about income inequality as if it is a problem in and of itself is automatically labelled an idiot in my mind. Especially when they post (two out of three) references that don't work, and the one that does is just more of the same idiocy that you always hear when it comes to income inequality.

What matters is median wealth to the health of a society, not income inequality. You could have a perfectly equal society where everyone made 10 bucks a year. Or you could have a society where the median income was 100,000, but you had a handful of plutocrats running around. Which one would you prefer to live in? The second of course. Having a rich person floating around cause harm to you, in and of itself.

A society where somebody looking to get an education can be reduced to that sucks on a very fundamental level. Doing education right takes everything a person has. Adding economic survival to that is just plain wrong and also plain stupid economically. Maybe one of the reasons the US imports so many H1B workers: The domestic talent seems to find it far to difficult to get a good education. A country the size of the US should not have any shortage of highly talented, skilled and educated people. Yet it has.

You have convinced yourself using a completely false narrative.

There's no talking to you.

You are a fool. Take the last word, which I will not read.

we'll just divert asteroids from NYC to Beijing.

Indeed. Everything you learn that you are interested in that is. That is one of the main reason to advise people to learn something they have a passion for. The ones doing things for the money will not get a lot of mileage out of their "learning" as it will not become part of who they are and hence they will never be good at it will not stay long with them. That is also a reason why everybody that finds they cannot find passion for a subject to change the subject.

Sure, at the end of the day you have to find some way to make enough money from what you learned to live off it. But you can either live in hell, doing a job you hate and no amount of money will ever compensate for that (although many people think it does). Or you can do something that you at lest love parts of and that you are good at. That usually does not make you rich, but unless you are really unlucky, it should be enough to live decently off it. Just remember that working is what takes most of your awake-time. Making that time more agreeable is very much worthwhile.

Don't parents help? If college costs $150000 for 4 years, don't American parents help? I am genuinely curious about this. Also, why not halve the costs by staying at home and finding a college close by for 4 years, and then leaving home? This question isn't on topic, but I'd really like to hear some Americans comment on why parents don't help with costs.

>So the entire industry is completely taxpayer supported bullshit. We're carrying an industry that has no use. And this in an era where water table is decreasing (corn is unbelievably thirsty), food prices and meat rising astronomically, etc.

Yes. Scientists and economists have known that corn ethanol is complete bullshit for a very long time now.

If you're interested in a good analysis of the subject, read the Economics of Food by Westhoff, which is mainly about the effects of biofuels on food prices. While ethanol is only a small fraction of demand for corn, due to the way the markets worked, it drive huge spikes in corn prices, which had downstream effects on corn mash (which the OP is referring to here), it altered the balance between white and yellow corn which caused food exports to Mexico to drop, leading to massive price spikes in tortillas there, leading to riots, various issues with trade protectionism, and so forth.

Given that there's absolutely no reason to use corn ethanol, the only reason that we still have it (and both major parties support it) is because corn farmers get first crack at choosing who our next president is.

If they implement feeding restrictions on corn mash, this will have very serious consequences on our food supply and will send price shocks throughout the world. It's a very bad idea.

Who will come to sneer about how others have made choice's that make them poor?

I'm just askin'

ack -- posting to undo mod error

I'm not sure how this would profit them - unless there is some unknown backdoor in TOR.

I would say it's worse than that. Changes such as this are actually pretty common. Actually I can't recall a single project I've been involved in where a contractor hasn't proposed some kind of design change. Contractors deal with what is possible and what is there. Engineers deal with what is theoretical and what is shown on drawings.

- Build a tunnel? Submerged rock that wasn't anticipated, contractor suggests slightly altering routes.
- Specify an exotic metal with a weird shape? Contractor says it can't be manufactured / transported to site within the timeframe, suggests slightly different design.
- Contractor builds anything at all which doesn't line up (which always happens), the contractor will ALWAYS suggest an alternative before accepting that they need to rip it out and start again.

The trick is ensuring you get the correct sign-offs in each case. In this case it looks like it was but the expertise wasn't here to recognise the problem. In the case of the Hyatt Regency Skywalk listed in this thread the sign-offs were not correct.

Llaw enforcement will be lloving this new devellllopment, they'llll have yet another way to llook at the dark web.

Around the time I was going through college, there was an article about scurvy making a comeback because a lot of college students ate Ramen noodles and nothing else. Turns out there's no vitamin C in Ramen.

I used to joke that you had to supplement your Ramen with pop tarts but I checked the nutrition information on those recently and they also have 0% of your RDA of vitamin C. So, I guess you're down to foraging for rose hips or something. And if you're lucky maybe you can kill a squirrel with one of your textbooks...

You are the person that Bloomberg has spent 50 million to protect the children of the US against this year. There is a reason that parents are just getting fed up with the gun nuts. Look at Europe. Only the military and police have guns, and crime is 1/10 of what it is here. Venezuela enacted a country wide gun ban, and violent firearm crime dropped by 1/1000. People like you are why the SAFE act and other lesligation to protect children has been enacted.

Re Somebody would have caught the unusual requests.
If a gov wants to sit between you and your site, the logs of your site would reflect whatever the gov wants.
They have man in the middle, fake sites and efforts like TURBINE would show very little skilled, attentive admins.
http://www.dailytech.com/Tax+a...

Yeah, I'm inclined to agree, that 'dark web' URL in slapped in such plain view.. screams honeypot. Pass.

Its not hard in real life, and you have a better chance of not getting caught buying it.

My Nokia 6230b just gave up the ghost this week. Loved that phone. It's fallen off my motorbike, hit the ground, broke into 4 pieces. I put them back together and it worked. So I bought me another Nokia. Let's see how long that one will last.

Choose a cheaper college in a cheaper town.

Bar hoppers? What's wrong with those of us who like to drink at many watering holes?

I am a natural born US citizen of Colombian heritage. My first degree was a double major of Information Systems/General Business and a minor in Philosophy. I got it in the US, at Nicholls State University in Thibodaux, Louisiana in 1992. My tuition, meal ticket, apartment, insurance, and spending money was 4,000 us a semester. 1500 hundred was covered by grants, and the rest was me waiting tables and bartending. My second degree was in economics in Colombia at a private university. 2000 was the year and my tuition was about 1200 USD a semester. Just for tuition. I worked for the university in the computer science department and was a sub ESL teacher, and so my tuition was waived. I also had a wild hair and studied law for a bit a public university but al fin no me llamo la atencion. I have worked in Colombia, Argentina, Peru, Ecuador, and Mexico. The company I worked for specialized in letting computer science majors do their internships and then hired the best of the best. In the US students tend to work while in school. In Latin America some do, but the majority do not. It is almost a insult to suggest to a Latin American student that they have an after school job. Not too mention the 18-20 year old grown men not being able to cook, wash clothes, and basically take care of themselves without being under their mothers skirts. Sure some of the best unis in Latin America, are state run. In Colombia only the best of the best get into them. In the US many people can go to a community college, then to a public uni etc. But people like to get grants, loans, stay in school forever, live beyond their means, and accumulate debt. It is not the school systems fault but the individual students. You can go to an inexpensive school, work full or part time, or you can ride the government teat and run up huge loans. No one signs the papers but you.

Manufacturing may be, but what about manufacturing EMPLOYMENT? When you use robots and automation, there aren't so many employees.

I believe manufacturing employment has also not shrunk, but it's harder to find statistics on that and it depends on what you mean by "manufacturing employment". If you mean jobs for people with high school education, those have shrunk, simply because more and more people are actually getting college degrees.

And it may look large because US manufacturing is focused on large-ticket items, like aircraft and rockets and tanks. It's still the case that 99% of the routine goods that you buy (whether clothes or household items or toys or electronics) are made in China.

It doesn't just "look large", that makes it objectively large. And, yes, the US focuses on high margin, high value items because those support the high salaries that US workers demand.

Mostly, these jobs move to China or Europe because Americans don't want to do them anymore.

See what Rowe has to say about this:

http://www.mikeroweworks.com/2...

Expect to see a lot more stories like this ie "Availability of Public Diplomacy Program Material Within the United States"
Most of this kind of news was run by the US gov around the world but not for US domestic consumption.
The limits on this kind of gov backed PR, spin within the US ie the Smith-Mundt Act are now lifted.
The sock puppets and public diplomacy types will be flooding US news sites with this kind of material as stories and then shaping comments.
https://www.federalregister.go...

O5, huh?
I got me an X20 whose BIOS says 1999. It has a Pentium III 600MHz with a whopping 192MB RAM. Love the keyboard. I use it as my morning PC when I'm drinking my coffee upstairs looking out at the tropical forest around my home. I like old computers. Also got a Model M keyboard but my wife uses it now. I'll have to steal it back from her someday. She doesn't appreciate it.
I love my Dell Mini 9's but they're young still, from 2008. I take one on my bike with me. Rock solid. I got three of them, so by the magic of parts replacement, at least one should last a while.