50% of company employees will always perform below company median. This can not be changed. What can be achieved is 100% of employees being beyond industry-wide median. Once most of the engineers are beyond the best candidates available for hire company should stop stack ranking. The problem with candidates however is you never know how good they are.
As correctly noted in your post trust is the real bottleneck. Hacked CA is a risk. Man-machine interaction on the end user side is much greater weakness.
User can be fooled by SSL strip. User can believe that "legitsite.ucvgsuivuis.cn" is your site if it provides valid certificate for "*.ucvgsuivuis.cn". Social engineering can be used to make user skip warnings by browser.
If users authenticate with certificate hackers are more likely to get the certificate by social engineering than by exploiting crypto weakness.
There is a good reason characters can move through one another. It's funny to see people once again proposing things like this one:
Maneuvering and physically blocking movement of enemies becomes much more important than it is in current games if the group needs to protect a wounded member who can't just be healed by the specialized healer standing in the back
Surely this physically blocking movement trick would make sense and enhance tactical depth but there is one important factor the author forgot - lag. When I played WOW I typically had lag of 300ms and many other players had worse. It is extremely important to tell the player where his character will be located when all movement commands reach the server, if his movement can be blocked by things not computable on client side only this convenience is gone.
I downloaded the netbook.iso under desktop kubuntu twice and I got different MD5 sums. Furthermore both times the MD5 was different from the expected md5. Strange things happening.:(
If the number of courses students attempt to not attend calls for special action it means that the education quality sucks and students feel that attendance is useless. Improve the education, not the detection.
I live in Israel I know how websites are created here. Once I inherited code for eShop that was destined to be given to the customer soon. Server part had glaring SQL injection vulnerabilities, the HTML/CSS part did not look the same or even correct in not a single browser. But the worst part was the boss who thinks it is OK to ship this to the customer without fixing and charge money for it. I hope our webmasters will learn from what happens now.
I'm not an expert, I compiled Linux kernel only once and not on embedded system. Also I'm good at generalizing.;)
Why do people switch to Windows Vista? Windows XP does not support some of the newest hardware. That's it, new OS runs better on new hardware. Why do people use 2.6 kernel on desktops? Old kernels do not support old hardware.
I know, computational power of embedded devices must be as small as possible to reduce energy consumption, cost, weight, whatever. I know, embedded hardware does not evolve the same way as desktop. But there is something in common. When new hardware comes out driver writers support newest OS first and old ones enter "if time permits" mode. Imagine that next year you device must support USB3 (while everything else remains the same). USB3 driver for new kernel is likely to be developed soon, usb3 driver for 2.4 may take longer. (Disclaimer: I know nothing about usb3, it is just an example).
A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
Even if ordinary person knows about CLS would he have enough courage to do the trick?
It's a cultural thing indeed. In China if stuff is broken before the expiration of warranty no-one is surprised when the firm denies to repair or replace the item. I heard that sometimes the reason for it is clearly stated as "even if you refuse we can do nothing".
Just got a mail from a scammer who pretends to be my ISP's representative. He attempts to make me believe that my illegal downloading was logged and I need to bribe him personally to avoid further disclosure. Woot! Are there many people illiterate enough to believe this?
Big corporations think that people are too afraid to seek justice even if law is not on the firm's side. Awareness and cheaper legal services for citizen would help. Corporations surely do not want the customers to be aware of their rights.
Did he do anything wrong? I do not think so. If the router did not require password it probably means, that the owner wished to allow free access to it. That's all. When you leave your router without password it is a message for everyone, that your router is a public AP.
Google is right about ads. Least annoying = Most clicked in the long run. Text ads are better than images, image than video, video than audio. If they could put text ads inside it would be better for them.
My guess is that people will use, but advertisement will cause listeners to AVOID advertised services and products. They will not have enough advertisers in the long run.
As everything based on voluntarism http://wikipedia.org/ needs to minimize the amount of non-creative effort needed to submit contributions. Every bit of extra effort needed to edit reduces the number contributors.
If webdevs do something Windows they use ASP (ASP.NET). ASP.NET is already RAD-like, the niche is taken. If they offer tools for PHP and MySQL target servers run Linux, target developers run Linux, and they are missing again.
The desktop will be dynamically composed many times a second from the contents of each window. Isn't it bad for performance (and energy savings)? Applications that redraw evrything and try to achieve high FPS load CPU and GPU heavily.
It says: "Windows is a preferred Web platform for business with leadership of self-hosted intranets and Internet sites in the U.S." Read: If your site runs on IIS it better be self-hosted as you will need for tweaking. Also: "IIS 6.0 runs on 53.4% of Fortune 1000 Web servers" Read: General market is only about 25% IIS. Those using IIS are huge corporations that think little about costs of webservers.
Anyway this site is a serious matter. Would SUN open similar service about MS Office users who can switch to Star/OpenOffice?
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50% of company employees will always perform below company median. This can not be changed. What can be achieved is 100% of employees being beyond industry-wide median. Once most of the engineers are beyond the best candidates available for hire company should stop stack ranking. The problem with candidates however is you never know how good they are.
As correctly noted in your post trust is the real bottleneck. Hacked CA is a risk. Man-machine interaction on the end user side is much greater weakness. User can be fooled by SSL strip. User can believe that "legitsite.ucvgsuivuis.cn" is your site if it provides valid certificate for "*.ucvgsuivuis.cn". Social engineering can be used to make user skip warnings by browser. If users authenticate with certificate hackers are more likely to get the certificate by social engineering than by exploiting crypto weakness.
Maneuvering and physically blocking movement of enemies becomes much more important than it is in current games if the group needs to protect a wounded member who can't just be healed by the specialized healer standing in the back
Surely this physically blocking movement trick would make sense and enhance tactical depth but there is one important factor the author forgot - lag. When I played WOW I typically had lag of 300ms and many other players had worse. It is extremely important to tell the player where his character will be located when all movement commands reach the server, if his movement can be blocked by things not computable on client side only this convenience is gone.
I downloaded the netbook .iso under desktop kubuntu twice and I got different MD5 sums. Furthermore both times the MD5 was different from the expected md5. Strange things happening. :(
If the number of courses students attempt to not attend calls for special action it means that the education quality sucks and students feel that attendance is useless. Improve the education, not the detection.
I doubt about the value of what students could learn (and write in their notes) from such idiot teacher.
I live in Israel I know how websites are created here. Once I inherited code for eShop that was destined to be given to the customer soon. Server part had glaring SQL injection vulnerabilities, the HTML/CSS part did not look the same or even correct in not a single browser. But the worst part was the boss who thinks it is OK to ship this to the customer without fixing and charge money for it. I hope our webmasters will learn from what happens now.
I'm not an expert, I compiled Linux kernel only once and not on embedded system. Also I'm good at generalizing. ;)
Why do people switch to Windows Vista? Windows XP does not support some of the newest hardware. That's it, new OS runs better on new hardware. Why do people use 2.6 kernel on desktops? Old kernels do not support old hardware.
I know, computational power of embedded devices must be as small as possible to reduce energy consumption, cost, weight, whatever. I know, embedded hardware does not evolve the same way as desktop. But there is something in common. When new hardware comes out driver writers support newest OS first and old ones enter "if time permits" mode. Imagine that next year you device must support USB3 (while everything else remains the same). USB3 driver for new kernel is likely to be developed soon, usb3 driver for 2.4 may take longer. (Disclaimer: I know nothing about usb3, it is just an example).
Conclusion: Moore's Law is your friend.
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Max_Planck
A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
Do you plan to create a legal wiki or something? Do you expect it to be practically useful?
Even if ordinary person knows about CLS would he have enough courage to do the trick?
It's a cultural thing indeed. In China if stuff is broken before the expiration of warranty no-one is surprised when the firm denies to repair or replace the item. I heard that sometimes the reason for it is clearly stated as "even if you refuse we can do nothing".
Just got a mail from a scammer who pretends to be my ISP's representative. He attempts to make me believe that my illegal downloading was logged and I need to bribe him personally to avoid further disclosure. Woot! Are there many people illiterate enough to believe this?
Big corporations think that people are too afraid to seek justice even if law is not on the firm's side. Awareness and cheaper legal services for citizen would help. Corporations surely do not want the customers to be aware of their rights.
A typical example of facts sacrificed to feed foolish propaganda. Wealth is determined by the amount of goods produced and consumed, not just sold.
Working on my thesis on evolutionary models. I have lots of references related to evolution of cultures.
Did he do anything wrong? I do not think so. If the router did not require password it probably means, that the owner wished to allow free access to it. That's all. When you leave your router without password it is a message for everyone, that your router is a public AP.
Wikimedia commons runs on it.
They will, probably, offer ad-supported porn later. ;)
Google is right about ads. Least annoying = Most clicked in the long run. Text ads are better than images, image than video, video than audio. If they could put text ads inside it would be better for them.
My guess is that people will use, but advertisement will cause listeners to AVOID advertised services and products. They will not have enough advertisers in the long run.
Look at the ugly screenshots. Raytracers must no be used with low-res textures.
As everything based on voluntarism http://wikipedia.org/ needs to minimize the amount of non-creative effort needed to submit contributions. Every bit of extra effort needed to edit reduces the number contributors.
If webdevs do something Windows they use ASP (ASP.NET). ASP.NET is already RAD-like, the niche is taken.
If they offer tools for PHP and MySQL target servers run Linux, target developers run Linux, and they are missing again.
Just added some content to your site. Now polling Windows users.
I think that later you will need to add admin users to fight trolling and flame-baiting.
When you have more content submit the site to slashdot news.
It says:
"Windows is a preferred Web platform for business with leadership of self-hosted intranets and Internet sites in the U.S."
Read: If your site runs on IIS it better be self-hosted as you will need for tweaking.
Also:
"IIS 6.0 runs on 53.4% of Fortune 1000 Web servers"
Read: General market is only about 25% IIS. Those using IIS are huge corporations that think little about costs of webservers.
Anyway this site is a serious matter. Would SUN open similar service about MS Office users who can switch to Star/OpenOffice?