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Microsoft Security Makes "Worst Jobs" List

Posted by kdawson on from the whale-meat-and-blubber dept.

Stony Stevenson asks, rhetorically, "What do whale-feces researchers, hazmat divers, and employees of Microsoft's Security Response Center have in common? They all made Popular Science magazine's 2007 list of the absolute worst jobs in science." Quoting: "The MSRC ranked near the middle as the sixth-worst job in this year's list.. 'We did rate the Microsoft security researcher as less-bad than the people who prepare the carcasses for dissection in biology laboratories,' Moyer said. Moyer didn't have to think long when asked whether he'd rather have the number 10-ranked whale research job. 'Whale feces or working at Microsoft? I would probably be the whale feces researcher,' he said. 'Salt air and whale flatulence; what could go wrong?'" Here's the Popular Mechanics list all on one page.

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  1. I call whaleshit by jomama717 · · Score: 5, Informative
    Support sucks no matter what you're working with - I've been there - this is a Microsoft slam piece from an unlikely source.

    For giggles, here's the list:
    • Number 10: Whale-Feces Researcher
    • Number 9: Forensic Entomologist
    • Number 8: Olympic Drug Tester?
    • Number 7: Gravity Research Subject
    • Number 6: Microsoft Security Grunt
    • Number 5: Coursework Carcass Preparer
    • Number 4: Garbologist
    • Number 3: Elephant Vasectomist
    • Number 2: Oceanographer
    • Number 1: Hazmat Diver
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  2. Re:Time to rethink OS's by davebert · · Score: 5, Informative
    Get SysInternal's Process Explorer. It's got a Find action that will tell you which process has a file open.

    It also has an option to replace TaskManager, which is very handy...

  3. Re:Time to rethink OS's by Colin+Smith · · Score: 4, Informative

    man fuser
    man lsof

    hth

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