Agreed, if it was a 0-day then they would have appointed a team to conduct the exercise in secret. Failing to do this, and truly attack the network, is an academic exercise.
"I hate facebook" is the general consensus among the users, however, they always offer the caveat that it is the only way they can keep in contact with people. FB is a miserable experience, there is no doubt about that.
The doctor who lobbied to liberate the prescription of morphine and morphine derivatives in the 80s recently retracted his stance completely in light of the massive addiction and over prescription of certain drugs in the last few decades. Despite his success in causing the drugs to be prescribed liberally and in lobbying, successfully, to establish laws freeing doctors of liability he now says it was all a mistake. This was covered in the Wall Street Journal recently. Russell Portenoy was his name--the story is behind a pay wall.Google: Pain-Drug Champion Has Second Thoughts
Exactly, take your pick. After her hiring at Yahoo this is the first story that surfaces, and now Best Buy. I don't know about all of you, but when I get home and pop open my Google drive and get back to coding I'm way more productive with two kids trying to kill each other at my feet than trying to work at "work" where my boss and others are randomly stopping by with conversations about zombies and other shit I have to act like I want to talk about. Meanwhile a cursor blinks in a code window while we talk about Obama, zombies, and various planetary bodies. Seriously, I just want to work. The only reason I want to telecommute is to get work done.
You are totally wrong. Stuck on supply side smoke and mirrors and the fallacy that entitlements are the real drain. It is not the entitlements as much as the mentality it creates that snuffs out the ambition to produce which is so lacking. We are buried in consumption at the expense of production--you know, the producers, the evil people. We live in an age were being rich is stinky and evil, when in reality the rich are those organize the plebeians and focus their labor and resources towards the most productive means. Break out the down-mods. No, I'm not trolling you dumb fucks!
A college degree is simply a way to pare down the number of candidates you have to evaluate. If you have a position that states a Bachelor's degree is required and there are 500 applicants, 300 of which have college degrees, you have the ability to very quickly and more importantly, in a very riskless way, eliminate 200 candidates for the position.
This selection criteria is not pertinent to the solution. Yet you offer it like a gem of wisdom that needs no explanation.
...and I've seen long, drawn-out juried hiring storms conducted by a committee where numerous stakeholders were allowed to interview and vote a on a candidate... and THEY ALL PICKED THE WRONG PERSON! These people had masters degrees, PhD's, with the lowest being a server administrator with an associates degree. In the end everyone was dying for the person to leave, many were trying to get him fired, and the position he was chosen for had ground to halt. The person they selected had a great personality, masters degree, lots of energy, but was not right for the job. I've seen studies suggesting that randomly hiring from a pool of qualified candidates yields better results than the hiring process I described. This same place hired the wrong president once as well...this caused problems that still reverberate years after their departure. I see no reason to labor over the decision for the reasons you pose since people are not very good at judging others with the brief peek allotted during a hiring process. Ultimately, you will hire the person who interviews and markets themselves better (with everyone nodding their heads, smiling, and talking about the great selection they made). Awesome marketing gave us Windows over OS/2 and VHS over Beta-max.
He has a problem and no adequate solution, yet still keeps plugging away. IT professionals SHOULD be trained analysts who fail to accept brute-force lame-ass tactics applied to complex business problems. Perhaps they should establish a standardized application that makes the applicants answer the questions they need answered instead of letting them file random forms (resumes) and hoping for the best. The fact that such a big problem exists and is continually ignored sickens me. Where is the HR industry with all their fancy certifications on this? Where is the evidence-based scientific approach? Is this just too boring or mundane a subject to warrant investigation of solutions? Why are we allowing HR, who couldn't pull a scientific process out of their ass to save their lives, allowed to implement choppy, untested solutions (automated resume scanning). Oh, that's right, there's no general ledger account to file this under. Just flip a coin and be done with it.
It's like you're yelling at the market to wise up. People simply are not as interested in Windows mobile as they are in Apple Mobile, period. Most people's exposure so far has been to Windows 8 preinstalled on a laptop and the subsequent frenzy to find someone who can change it to act like Windows 7. Great introduction to Metro, confusing the hell out of people and making their PC feel shitty and useless. I don't mind Metro on a tablet, but they fucked up the marketing on this one. Every day more and more people are getting a bad taste in their mouth after being presented with a Metro interface.
Up to this point I have not seen any nostalgia. Is your point cause to make us throw up our hands and say "all is well?" I think we are looking at the way things are and noting symptoms and causes. There is a definite climb in education costs/expenses with a diminishing return.
I agree about the creative thinking comment. I think of a young kid who wants to be a writer and asks how they can become one. The answer is to READ a lot of fucking books. Only after you learn that which requires effort can one really be creative. There are a lot of factors at play in our decimated education system. One is that young people are not prepared at home for the tremendous amount of effort required to produce something worthwhile and therefore gain success. Another is that the administration at schools is devoid of leadership. I know of a school where one of the main administrators is a career student who couldn't get a job until his friend who he met in college got a job in administration, became president, and hired him as a VP. Not a bad guy at all, just not qualified to perform the role with which he is entrusted--zero life experience, only job he ever really got was mowing grass at a golf course. I think this level of qualification is the norm now.
It has not BEEN lowered, it has been drifting down, and has now hit critical mass into a near free-fall (sorry for the hyperbole). Professors, instructors, teachers, I don't know what to call them, can only take so much. Grading is now relative in a lot of courses. For example, in non-core courses (and to some extent, in core as well), the students who do the best work out of all the other students get an automatic A. Forget that they earned a B average, they get an A because their work was better than everyone else's work. Remember that grading can easily be arbitrary because the grades are assigned by the "teacher" and there is no accountability criteria, it is essentially up to the professor. So, you can see how easy it is to have the bar lowered. The administration is the last group of people who are going to question grades or even bring it up in the context of reform. There is a lot of pressure on professors from many angles, so as economics reflects, they alleviate their pain through the avenues they control. Students pass and get good grades--this means the students are happy, parents are happy, administration is happy, state is happy, but businesses are like WTF when they hire the end product. The system is seriously fucking broken. Why? Because the economics of state intervention are hot at work---and economics of government is politics. Disclaimer: I work in education and deal directly with all stakeholders.
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Agreed, if it was a 0-day then they would have appointed a team to conduct the exercise in secret. Failing to do this, and truly attack the network, is an academic exercise.
"I hate facebook" is the general consensus among the users, however, they always offer the caveat that it is the only way they can keep in contact with people. FB is a miserable experience, there is no doubt about that.
Let me join the rest of world in a big fucking yawn........
Send them to hospice?
I see your ass moving, but I don't understand the words coming out of it.
The doctor who lobbied to liberate the prescription of morphine and morphine derivatives in the 80s recently retracted his stance completely in light of the massive addiction and over prescription of certain drugs in the last few decades. Despite his success in causing the drugs to be prescribed liberally and in lobbying, successfully, to establish laws freeing doctors of liability he now says it was all a mistake. This was covered in the Wall Street Journal recently. Russell Portenoy was his name--the story is behind a pay wall.Google: Pain-Drug Champion Has Second Thoughts
We have the answer. Look at PHP's documentation. Clear and simple with user comments and code.
Exactly, take your pick. After her hiring at Yahoo this is the first story that surfaces, and now Best Buy. I don't know about all of you, but when I get home and pop open my Google drive and get back to coding I'm way more productive with two kids trying to kill each other at my feet than trying to work at "work" where my boss and others are randomly stopping by with conversations about zombies and other shit I have to act like I want to talk about. Meanwhile a cursor blinks in a code window while we talk about Obama, zombies, and various planetary bodies. Seriously, I just want to work. The only reason I want to telecommute is to get work done.
His next move will be to Windows. The Linux fanbois just have a hard time making that leap directly.
Obviously the marketing of game consoles is extremely fucking complicated....
You are totally wrong. Stuck on supply side smoke and mirrors and the fallacy that entitlements are the real drain. It is not the entitlements as much as the mentality it creates that snuffs out the ambition to produce which is so lacking. We are buried in consumption at the expense of production--you know, the producers, the evil people. We live in an age were being rich is stinky and evil, when in reality the rich are those organize the plebeians and focus their labor and resources towards the most productive means. Break out the down-mods. No, I'm not trolling you dumb fucks!
Ahhh....the age old decision of hegemony or survival. You can't have both.....cough...Rome.
Is this like the disorientation I used to feel when I wore my grandparents' glasses as a kid?
I haven't watched TV for years; how is this an issue? [Queue up obligatory TV snob link...]
A college degree is simply a way to pare down the number of candidates you have to evaluate. If you have a position that states a Bachelor's degree is required and there are 500 applicants, 300 of which have college degrees, you have the ability to very quickly and more importantly, in a very riskless way, eliminate 200 candidates for the position.
This selection criteria is not pertinent to the solution. Yet you offer it like a gem of wisdom that needs no explanation.
You get the idiot card today.
...and I've seen long, drawn-out juried hiring storms conducted by a committee where numerous stakeholders were allowed to interview and vote a on a candidate... and THEY ALL PICKED THE WRONG PERSON! These people had masters degrees, PhD's, with the lowest being a server administrator with an associates degree. In the end everyone was dying for the person to leave, many were trying to get him fired, and the position he was chosen for had ground to halt. The person they selected had a great personality, masters degree, lots of energy, but was not right for the job. I've seen studies suggesting that randomly hiring from a pool of qualified candidates yields better results than the hiring process I described. This same place hired the wrong president once as well...this caused problems that still reverberate years after their departure. I see no reason to labor over the decision for the reasons you pose since people are not very good at judging others with the brief peek allotted during a hiring process. Ultimately, you will hire the person who interviews and markets themselves better (with everyone nodding their heads, smiling, and talking about the great selection they made). Awesome marketing gave us Windows over OS/2 and VHS over Beta-max.
He has a problem and no adequate solution, yet still keeps plugging away. IT professionals SHOULD be trained analysts who fail to accept brute-force lame-ass tactics applied to complex business problems. Perhaps they should establish a standardized application that makes the applicants answer the questions they need answered instead of letting them file random forms (resumes) and hoping for the best. The fact that such a big problem exists and is continually ignored sickens me. Where is the HR industry with all their fancy certifications on this? Where is the evidence-based scientific approach? Is this just too boring or mundane a subject to warrant investigation of solutions? Why are we allowing HR, who couldn't pull a scientific process out of their ass to save their lives, allowed to implement choppy, untested solutions (automated resume scanning). Oh, that's right, there's no general ledger account to file this under. Just flip a coin and be done with it.
They aren't in the business of policing shit...it is better to let the economic dog lie.
ahhh.....economics, reminds me of the theft of Honda Accords.
It's like you're yelling at the market to wise up. People simply are not as interested in Windows mobile as they are in Apple Mobile, period. Most people's exposure so far has been to Windows 8 preinstalled on a laptop and the subsequent frenzy to find someone who can change it to act like Windows 7. Great introduction to Metro, confusing the hell out of people and making their PC feel shitty and useless. I don't mind Metro on a tablet, but they fucked up the marketing on this one. Every day more and more people are getting a bad taste in their mouth after being presented with a Metro interface.
We're on slashdot you fucktard! We are not looking for an unbiased answer OR discussion!
Up to this point I have not seen any nostalgia. Is your point cause to make us throw up our hands and say "all is well?" I think we are looking at the way things are and noting symptoms and causes. There is a definite climb in education costs/expenses with a diminishing return.
I agree about the creative thinking comment. I think of a young kid who wants to be a writer and asks how they can become one. The answer is to READ a lot of fucking books. Only after you learn that which requires effort can one really be creative. There are a lot of factors at play in our decimated education system. One is that young people are not prepared at home for the tremendous amount of effort required to produce something worthwhile and therefore gain success. Another is that the administration at schools is devoid of leadership. I know of a school where one of the main administrators is a career student who couldn't get a job until his friend who he met in college got a job in administration, became president, and hired him as a VP. Not a bad guy at all, just not qualified to perform the role with which he is entrusted--zero life experience, only job he ever really got was mowing grass at a golf course. I think this level of qualification is the norm now.
It has not BEEN lowered, it has been drifting down, and has now hit critical mass into a near free-fall (sorry for the hyperbole). Professors, instructors, teachers, I don't know what to call them, can only take so much. Grading is now relative in a lot of courses. For example, in non-core courses (and to some extent, in core as well), the students who do the best work out of all the other students get an automatic A. Forget that they earned a B average, they get an A because their work was better than everyone else's work. Remember that grading can easily be arbitrary because the grades are assigned by the "teacher" and there is no accountability criteria, it is essentially up to the professor. So, you can see how easy it is to have the bar lowered. The administration is the last group of people who are going to question grades or even bring it up in the context of reform. There is a lot of pressure on professors from many angles, so as economics reflects, they alleviate their pain through the avenues they control. Students pass and get good grades--this means the students are happy, parents are happy, administration is happy, state is happy, but businesses are like WTF when they hire the end product. The system is seriously fucking broken. Why? Because the economics of state intervention are hot at work---and economics of government is politics. Disclaimer: I work in education and deal directly with all stakeholders.