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Re:Beautiful men, women have higher IQs on Tuesday January 18, 2011 @04:42PM (#2117542)
I would need to put the term in quotes if I'm planning on using the term in an unusual manner.

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Quotation_mar...

I put the term in single quotes due to the fact that 'attractive' can be an ambiguous and subjective term.

I'm aware that 'Attractiveness is a real thing'.

Re:Beautiful men, women have higher IQs on Tuesday January 18, 2011 @12:30PM (#2116584)
One other consideration: I recall a 20/20 special years ago that showed how superficial society can be. They did a test where they had one 'unattractive' person on the side of the road who had no gas and needed help. Needless to say, they never received any help in comparison to the 'attractive' person who was put in the same situation.

The point that I'm making is that, maybe the reason why 'attractive' people may have a higher IQ, is that they are more likely to receive help from others based solely on their appearance.

Another point I would like to add: Maybe 'attractive' people feel the need to increase their intelligence, due to the stereotype that 'attractive' people don't need to have intelligence and can just rely upon their looks to get them through life.

Is penetration testing a career worth pursuing?

Posted by zitstif on Tuesday January 18, 2011 @01:37AM
from the self-post dept.

I ask this due to this article:http://carnal0wnage.attackresearch.com/node/440I think he made some very good points that most companies don't want to take an expensive test that they'll most likely fail and they just want to be compliant.While I can see penetration testing diminishing in the corporate environment, I think it will most likely be a constant within the realm of the military.What...

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Re:Quick way to get started with python? (for php developers) on Sunday December 05, 2010 @11:43PM (#1973950)
Come up with a project that you want to program and then develop it in python.
Re:What is your favorite command-line trick using Bash? on Wednesday December 01, 2010 @04:06PM (#1959610)
#Anyone hear of dog? dog is better than cat..

dog http://ifconfig.me | egrep -wo '[[:digit:]]{1,3}\.[[:digit:]]{1,3}\.[[:digit:]]{1,3}\.[[:digit:]]{1,3}' | uniq

Re:Blackhat 2010 Videos on Wednesday August 25, 2010 @12:58PM (#1633395)
Yes, I had to restart my server. It's back up. :-)

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