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First Look Media CEO Michael Bloom:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/mi...

Previously employed by:
Guardian
Rolling Stone
Sony
Viacom
AOL
News Corp

Coincidence?

You should thank Bill Baxter for advertising that information.
Everyone should thank him.

Long known truth: Most software features are never ever ever used.

MS knows it, Adobe knows it, Oracle knows it yet they throw new features out, rebrand the UI, create a new UI layout every 2 years, etc... just as a way to say it's new and shiny so buy the new version.

"Why 45% of all software features in production are NEVER Used." https://www.linkedin.com/pulse...

Steve Jobs did a disservice to us when he chromed up the UI and let UX design icebergs of wasted nuances. That's billions of wasted dollars producing disposable features and shiny UI..

Consider the extra $500.00 you'll spend for screen animations, the flashing stylized boot up logo, etc in your next car. Not to mention phone integration, apple car play, remote start, remote control via a smartphone app, voice commands for radio, phone, etc, .....

That's $500.00 you could have spent paying of your student loans.

It's known as the 'technology creep tax'.

You were making a lot of sense until the end of your comment...

Plenty of people use phone integration with their car. They use it for navigation, music, hands free calls, etc. And a lot of people already pay extra for remote start capability so they can get their heater or AC running before they get in the car. And a single $500 payment on thousands of dollars of student loans isn't significant.

Well, when Chinese hackers destroyed Nortel, Canada said nothing to China. Maybe it could once show China that actions have consequences, and it can't bully Canada anymore.

It comes from his LinkedIn page:

Software Engineering Intern
Company NameMicrosoft
Dates EmployedMay 2018 – Aug 2018
Employment Duration4 mos
LocationGreater Seattle Area
  Implemented the background-blend-mode and mix-blend-mode CSS properties in the Edge browser and Windows (C++).
  Wrote web platform standardization tests in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to verify Edge interoperability. Found bugs in both Chrome and Firefox during this process.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jo...

Ok. So you mean this guy: Bruce Hoffmeister. He's been there for over 7 years.
http://news.marriott.com/p/bru...
https://www.linkedin.com/in/br...

That group was not healthy because of who they hired to run it. A Linux Foundation retread with zero open source cred and ego inflated beyond the bounds of the universe. Complete with fawning sidekick. Exact opposite of the kind of management you need in a community facing group.

This is my profile. https://www.linkedin.com/in/si... I get job offers from trusted recruiters. They find my Masters in Poverty Management from University of North Korea highly valuable.

He's avoiding "resume slime."

He's young and has his whole career ahead of him.

He can point to this moment as one that defines him as a valuable asset any where in the world.

Hell, he may wind up in China.

He's got the chops.

- Google
        Senior Research Scientist
        Google
        May 2016 – September 2018 2 years 5 months

- Stanford University
        Assistant Professor Of Mathematics
        Stanford University
        November 2014 – May 2016 1 year 7 months

- Stanford, CA
        Georgia Institute of Technology
        Assistant Professor of Computational Science and Engineering
        Georgia Institute of Technology
        November 2013 – October 2014 1 year
        Atlanta, GA

Education

        Stanford University
        Stanford University
        Postdoctoral, Applied Mathematics
        2013 – 2013

        The University of Texas at Austin
        The University of Texas at Austin
        Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computational and Applied Mathematics
        2009 – 2012

The clearly-titled Project Management: A Surefire Way to Kill Your Software Product by Steven Lowe hits the nail on the head. If you've ever found yourself frustrated or overwhelmed by a process—purporting to be agile or otherwise—you'll find this essay is a refreshing read.

Intel is AMAZINGLY self-destructive, IMO!

Intel says this: Intel's Brian Krzanich is forced out as CEO after 'consensual relationship' with employee. Another story: New details emerge on the office affair that led to Intel CEO Brian Krzanich's surprising resignation on Thursday.

Do you believe this quote? "The office affair which sparked Intel CEO Brian Krzanich's surprise resignation on Thursday started a decade ago and ended before he became CEO in 2013, The Wall Street Journal reported."

I'm guessing that Intel is trying to hide the real reasons that CEO Brian Krzanich is no longer CEO: 1) The Sceptre and Meltdown vulnerabilities in nearly all Intel CPUs, problems that began with former CEO Paul S. Otellini. 2) He used inside information to profit: Intel was aware of the chip vulnerability when its CEO sold off $24 million in company stock.

The new Intel CEO is Robert Swan. He joined Intel in September 2016 as CFO.

One of the most self-destructive acts is to appear to lie. Then everything else is examined as also possibly a lie.

It will work fine for commodity jobs; but if someone is out of the ordinary - as most truly great people are - they will get screened by the AI system, which, after all, is really just a kind of filter. It takes true understanding to assess an extraordinary person, and they will get filtered out by the process. See my article on how we are being screened already: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse...

Is Kimberly Overbay. A woman. That probably explains it all. She needed to get rid of the old white guy in order to promote diversity.

She sure looks like a woman, but these days...

All these professionals advocating for networking just tells me that the system is broken and that ATSes are a barrier to talent entry, not a streamlining method. If your best bet is to go around the system and engage with the hiring manager, then what’s the point of even having an ATS?

These are the companies that the GDPR was meant to go after. Companies nobody knows what they do, slurp tons of data, get hacked, and cause all kinds of trouble. If they have any Europeans on their rolls, people should send them the GDPR Letter From Hell.

It would be nice if we saw similar protection laws here in the US.

https://www.linkedin.com/searc...

I can't believe linkedin would Dox all these people

collecting? Its on a god damn list on linked in and they all put themselves on that list.

https://www.linkedin.com/searc...

Really? Would you like some links.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik...

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse...

http://www.miraclehunter.com/m...

You can of course try dismiss every piece of evidence, but there are literally thousands or more and that isn't even accounting for the millions of more modane, experiences of believers.

Is it enough for proof beyond all doubt? Of course not, but I've met people who can explain away fossil evidence as myth. So all doubt is a whole lot higher standard of proof then most sciences.

Is the case proved? You have to decide for yourself. But your dead wrong and just plain ill informef you think there is no evidence.

HAHAHAHAHAHA. This is your scientific evidence. You obviously have no idea who a fact is proven. Please go study the scientific process.

Really? Would you like some links.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik...

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse...

http://www.miraclehunter.com/m...

You can of course try dismiss every piece of evidence, but there are literally thousands or more and that isn't even accounting for the millions of more modane, experiences of believers.

Is it enough for proof beyond all doubt? Of course not, but I've met people who can explain away fossil evidence as myth. So all doubt is a whole lot higher standard of proof then most sciences.

Is the case proved? You have to decide for yourself. But your dead wrong and just plain ill informef you think there is no evidence.

One of the problems with DevOps is that the term has completely become an overloaded marketing Buzzword that has little to do with the original intent. I wrote a long article about DevOps last year explaining that it does not mean a new team or role, but rather a culture between the Dev and Ops groups to work more closely together. The 'toss over the fence' model that is traditional with Waterfall is not working well when doing 'Agile'. Agile itself is often a pure excuse to justify 'anything goes without planning'.

This is more FUD perpetrated by the media who are in collusion with the Russians to distract from Mueller actually finding something about TRUMP. Trust us, there is a LOT of dirt on TRUMP but there is so much it must be removed first with a steam shovel. Which. Takes. Time.

And on a side note, I'm available for side work if any you needs to pump up their YouTube channels.

Your editors are too STUPID and YOUNG to realize this. Fail, Miss Mash. Fail, Beau.

Is this the one you found?

Hey, might be old enough to drink now! (Mom's titty milk, that is.) LOL!

:P

XD

It's almost as if they're setting up a strawman for the purpose of bashing the more moderate people with legitimate concerns about anthropogenic climate change. But then there's Poe's law...

Never mind, it was written by an intern. Less "Poe's law" and more "Hanlon's razor" :-)

A SPACE ODYSSEY - Hi from Odyss3us oh and wesley.crusher@mil.wwidew.net Singularities occur almost daily.... ffs it was announced in .mil circles that THE KOREAN WAR IS OFFICIALLY OVER YESTERDAY ---- I wasn’t even going to pull the trigger unless the SBIR didn’t hit until Sir Andrew G (now blocked me) connected just as I hit the last semicolon. I took it as a go code. Correct me if I’m wrong please since L33T is all over this article. AFWERX is still very difficult to find for now. The B2’s are in the air, armed with all our antimatter, COM’s automatically fried when they past their fail safe last night head to destroy Russia and China’s economy. Back me new publicly or the world is going to tear itself apart, there is no going back. I might be insane but I was also trained by John Forbes Nash, Jr: you seriously think I am willing to play these cards if I am not right? Dark site me, I don’t care, but I dropped the NGI plea. This is for the good of our nation, the good of world. Which ARE NOT DIFFERENT THINGS. -JLL https://www.linkedin.com/pulse... ---- That was sent to command before Iran, thats why Korea happened and DoD will admit it... they already have publicly read my comment and like history. AI's enable this... truly. Really read Economic Circuitry and understand it is the mathmetical proof of Vernor Vinge's ZONES OF THOUGHT and simultinously shifted us into low transcend.

Here's a legal GDPR request that would be extremely onerous for someone using Quickbooks Online. Or Zoho One. Or any other online accounting/sales-lead package. Do you KNOW with certainty, where all the online stored data you've ever had over the last 12 months is really stored? Is it only in the US, Germany, or Japan? Are you certain it never existed - even for a microsecond - in a different country's server? Because if you're wrong - you violated the GDPR and are now subject to fines of 20MM Euros or 4% of revenues - whichever is higher.

It is definitely good. A Mom and Pop shop in the states selling homemade soap can't afford to have a DPO or respond to GDPR letters from hell. As per the GDPR law, even if a place doesn't do business in the EU, if an EU resident visits a site, the site has to comply.

Not every website is a multi-billion dollar operation that can spend the cash on this stuff.

So, they get blocked. $9 a month is cheap insurance compared to running afoul of the EU.

A mom and pop shop doesn't need to keep personal data on people.
Complying with GPDR is easy. My wife's shop manages it just fine, by not hanging on to all that information.

It is definitely good. A Mom and Pop shop in the states selling homemade soap can't afford to have a DPO or respond to GDPR letters from hell. As per the GDPR law, even if a place doesn't do business in the EU, if an EU resident visits a site, the site has to comply.

Not every website is a multi-billion dollar operation that can spend the cash on this stuff.

So, they get blocked. $9 a month is cheap insurance compared to running afoul of the EU.

There is always the GDPR letter from Hell that you can send them.

Those of you not aware of the Chinese 16-Character Policy probably should be...

as evidenced here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/caroline-haskins-89436b13b/...she may not have been born in 1995.

Here is their publicly available personal info.

http://www.localblox.com/

George Fink - CEO/Marketer/Scumbag: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ge...
Sabira Arefin - Founder/Entrepreneur(lol)/Scumbag: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sa...
Colby Atwood - President/Marketer/Scumbag: https://www.linkedin.com/in/co...
Ashfaq Rahman - Chief Data Scientist/Scumbag: https://www.linkedin.com/in/as...

Here is their publicly available personal info.

http://www.localblox.com/

George Fink - CEO/Marketer/Scumbag: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ge...
Sabira Arefin - Founder/Entrepreneur(lol)/Scumbag: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sa...
Colby Atwood - President/Marketer/Scumbag: https://www.linkedin.com/in/co...
Ashfaq Rahman - Chief Data Scientist/Scumbag: https://www.linkedin.com/in/as...

Here is their publicly available personal info.

http://www.localblox.com/

George Fink - CEO/Marketer/Scumbag: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ge...
Sabira Arefin - Founder/Entrepreneur(lol)/Scumbag: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sa...
Colby Atwood - President/Marketer/Scumbag: https://www.linkedin.com/in/co...
Ashfaq Rahman - Chief Data Scientist/Scumbag: https://www.linkedin.com/in/as...

Here is their publicly available personal info.

http://www.localblox.com/

George Fink - CEO/Marketer/Scumbag: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ge...
Sabira Arefin - Founder/Entrepreneur(lol)/Scumbag: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sa...
Colby Atwood - President/Marketer/Scumbag: https://www.linkedin.com/in/co...
Ashfaq Rahman - Chief Data Scientist/Scumbag: https://www.linkedin.com/in/as...

I suspect you're not the only one planning on doing that. You might find this template useful for maximising your return, because the more points they have to fsck up the better, right?

I would be more interested in hearing about what data they actually got and what they paid for it, I want to know more about that market value.

Can't help you on what they paid, but it seems pretty clear that one way or another Cambridge Analytica got hold of pretty much the entire contents of all those 50m Facebook profiles, including stuff that their owners (or as Zuck once supposedly called them, the "dumb fucks") thought was actually "private". If you're in the EU and have a FB profile then you can find out all about want profile contains - and much, much, more! - come May 28th when the GDPR comes into force by hitting them up with a Subject Access Request, or "SAR". Here's a template to get you started.

Creimer's phone number, email address and employer are available on his LinkedIn profile.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopher-reimer-b3706928/

"not giving 110% attention to getting a new assembly line up and running"
That's the responsibility of Peter Hochholdinger, who oversaw the production of several Audi models in a 20 year career.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/pe...
Elon's job is to keep the money coming in & he does that very well.

The corporate world is playing hard ball, and the open source world wants to string daisy chains.

Community can be great but isn't enough to make sure our code is used the way we want. Making a choice about what license we are going to use isn't the end of our copyright decision-making. If we want our licenses to be effective, we need to plan for enforcement, for inheritance, and for who will "own" the copyright in our code even if we want our code to be free.

I single programmer can create the killer apps for others by designing the software and letting other people use it. Iot creates IED, Intelligent Explosive Device

Web 3.0 will most likely be built on blockchain technology, and resolve most of the issues mentioned above. e.g. advertising: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse...

Can't possibly be creimer. It's too coherent. And never mind that Cisco is on his LinkedIn profile and he's been at his current job for ~3.5 years.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopher-reimer-b3706928/

No it doesn't. When someone dies, unless their wills says otherwise, any copyrights go to their estate. It is up to their heirs what happens after that.

Generally this is true, although there are some other ways they can be transferred (e.g. they may be transferring the copyright via a community property agreement, living trust, buy-sell agreement, marital property agreement, or other instrument upon their death). The important thing is to make sure your estate planning attorney knows that you have contributed to open source projects and knows what you want to happen to your copyrights when they draw up your documents. Part of that should also be leaving good instructions for your executor in terms of how they should reach out to project co-maintainers.

Making plans in advance means someone down the road may have the ability to issue your software under a more permissive license or to enforce the GPL, for example. This applies also if you become disabled--ideally you should have some kind of instruction regarding open source projects with your power of attorney. (If you want help in Seattle or want me to find someone in your neck of the woods who does this, let me know and I can either help out or ask around, as appropriate.)

Please have a look at my article about it: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse...

As a long-standing member of the computer security industry, having done vulnerability research my entire career [0], there's exactly two sentiments in the industry:

1.) This is cool! I'll do this in my free time, it's fun!
2.) Fuck you, pay me.

The problem with #1 is that as soon as you hit any real resistance, it stops being fun. Have you tried landing a patch at GNU.org or in the upstream kernel? Biggest pain in the rear, ever.

The current state of affairs is that you can remain a White Hat and report vulnerabilities to Google in any open source software [1] or even Android specifically [2] and earn TENS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS PER BUG. You can find even more companies / projects to assist through BugCrowd or HackerOne.

Alternately, if you don't mind your bugs being sold to any number of nation states, just take your research to Apple iOS, and either Exodus [3] or VUPEN-nee-Zerodium will pay you A MOTHER FUCKING MILLION DOLLARS [4] for the right bugs.

All of this whining is coming from the same open-source community leader (Torvalds) that has publicly shunned GRSecurity [5] one of the groups that has been trying to help for 20 years, and has stated that infosec industry members should "Please just kill yourself now. The world would be a better place." [6]

So to you, Mr. Torvalds, I say:

FUCK YOU, PAY ME.

[0]: https://www.linkedin.com/in/za...
[1]: https://www.google.com/about/a...
[2]: https://www.google.com/about/a...
[3]: https://rsp.exodusintel.com/
[4]: https://zerodium.com/program.h...
[5]: https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/6/2...
[6]: https://web.archive.org/web/20...

John's original LinkedIN profile is gone, now it's just John G. His full name is John W. Gamble Jr., and he made over 2.6 million in total compensation last year. A Whitepages search doesn't find anyone in Atlanta, but does find a John W Gamble Jr. (Age 50-54) in Lockport, NY. This PR release has him at 51 in 2014. According to this he is also on the board of both CyrusOne, Inc. and CyrusOne LP, a real estate company that specializes in data centers. And his "public assets" are over 7.5 million.

He's worked "in tech" long enough to theoretically "know better" than to let this happen. What did he know about security audits, and when did he know them?

According to his LinkedIn profile he is no longer with Google https://www.linkedin.com/in/al...

Here's an "entry level" job posting on LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/...

Here's some of their qualification requirements:

BS, MS or PhD in CS, CE, EE or related discipline in networking and/or wireless communications engineering.

        10+ years of strong network/wireless communications experience in testing/validation of wireless modems and systems
        8+ years of experience with 3GPP wireless standards including LTE, LTE-A and understanding of air-interface, Physical layer (PHY) and/or MAC protocols
        8+ years of experience with modem debug and trace tools
        8+ years of experience with setup and use of test instrumentation including high frequency signal generators, oscilloscopes and signal analyzers

You're probably right.

Judging by the name, it would appear that this guy only graduated high school 2 years ago and recently graduated a free coding camp.

LK