Should be easy to rule that out by using a USB wifi dongle on an extension near one sample, and a temperature-controlled object of the same size over the control (those dongles do heat up a little bit, not much, but you gotta be sure).
Non-AC'd cars, cell phones, now wi-fi...but I'm not worried. You only need to conceive a child a few times in your whole life anyways, worst-case scenario, you forgo the motorcycle and the big TV and lay down the cash for an artificial insemination procedure.
(Can feel mom's hopes for grandchildren fading...)
Yeah if he wasn't a moron he would've simply held the data for ransom and received many years' worth of pay all at once. Amazing that this guy was smart enough to know how to break in and grab the data but cartoonishly dumb enough to request a job and then walk right into law enforcement's hands.
The whole SEO industry relies heavily upon secrecy and customer ignorance. I wouldn't like to work in an industry that could be destroyed by a few big leaks.
This. If he's poorly certified and doesn't have any outstanding prior accomplishments to rest upon (in other words, isn't a rock star), he'll be lucky to get hired as a toner-change monkey, even if he's a genius. If you have no degree and no experience, to the HR departments you are shit. If you have no degree, no experience, AND no formal education or other certifications, you are shit minus one. Starting his own business is surely a faster path to success for him.
But, if that's really not an option (he said his freelance opportunities have "dried up") here's something I wish I knew sooner: Go on Craigslist and search for people looking for a "php guru." Mostly small (really small) businesses looking for someone to be their website maintainer & unofficial sysadmin. The pay won't be good, but it can keep you employed and add more accomplishments and references to your CV.
You see I think some people are wired from birth to believe and some people are wired not to believe. You are an example of a person who is wired to believe. Your mind cannot disbelieve and others' disbelief is incomprehensible to you. If you were raised by Richard Dawkins and Regina Dawkins, the female Richard Dawkins clone (or a gay Richard Dawkins clone couple, why not?), you'd grow up constantly thinking to yourself "there must be more than this. There must be some consciousness controlling everything in the universe. Deep down I know there is." and at some point you'd seek out religion.
Now flip all that around and maybe you can understand those who are wired not to believe.
Not that this has much to do with your creationism, that's a separate issue where you can't separate the finite universe from your supposedly infinite spiritual world.
I would argue that I know rather a bit more about evolution than most and probably on par with most/.ers
Haha, this comes from the same person who says:
There is the developed eye which is inexplicable which I mentioned earlier. I take similarities to indicate a common designer as that is the simplest explanation it causes all that complexity to collapse into a single idea.
True. Maybe it would be more capitalistic to require them to pay into an Epidemic Insurance Fund rather than to deny them a tax benefit. We do it for cars right?
...considering that they have socialized medicine. To libertarians this probably looks like a communist nightmare, I'll admit that to me it only seems OK because I don't believe in the Right to Put Everyone In Danger By Being a Total Moron.
It's not circular reasoning, the fact that you think it is proves my point. There's a difference between skepticism and stubbornly refusing to accept new evidence.
You're right, that's just not legal or easy. If you're not afraid to mod your TV though, you can tap into some output lines of the HDCP decoder to get an unencrypted feed.
The only certainty is that it will happen, and it will be because of something unprepared for that is only obvious in hindsight.
The monstrous earthquake/tsunami combo the Fukushima reactor was hit by was "obvious in hindsight?"
If it took a direct hit from a meteor you'd be saying the same thing I guess. There's no certainty that there will be another nuclear disaster. In fact, if no new reactors are built in Natural Disaster Central I'd bet that none of them will suffer disasters, pretty much in line with the rest of the history of nuclear power. If EPIC_STUPIDITY = 0 && BUILT_ON_NATURES_SHOOTING_RANGE=0 then NUCLEAR_DISASTER=0.
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The Atari 130XE and collection of sci-fi novels my dad gave me access to probably did long-term damage to my fertility.
Should be easy to rule that out by using a USB wifi dongle on an extension near one sample, and a temperature-controlled object of the same size over the control (those dongles do heat up a little bit, not much, but you gotta be sure).
Non-AC'd cars, cell phones, now wi-fi...but I'm not worried. You only need to conceive a child a few times in your whole life anyways, worst-case scenario, you forgo the motorcycle and the big TV and lay down the cash for an artificial insemination procedure.
(Can feel mom's hopes for grandchildren fading...)
That's over 6 9/11s per year, everyone.
A social networking company buying a company that makes security & anonymization software, what could possibly go wrong?
I think you might have run into a bug. My post was in reply to cb88 (hit Parent on my post, it should go here: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2546664&cid=38188064).
The nightmarish working conditions at EA are legendary. Those "jokes" you've heard? Probably real-life anecdotes.
The game development industry as a whole is a shitty place to work though, EA is just widely known as the worst of the lot.
That's not fossil CO2 being introduced into the atmosphere so it's not comparable - that's carbon neutral in fact.
Actually you only get geek cred if you went to see it in the theater, expecting a decent movie. Extra bonus if you walked out.
If you watched it more than 3 months after it came out, you get no geek cred.
If you enjoyed it you lose geek cred.
Yeah if he wasn't a moron he would've simply held the data for ransom and received many years' worth of pay all at once. Amazing that this guy was smart enough to know how to break in and grab the data but cartoonishly dumb enough to request a job and then walk right into law enforcement's hands.
What do you mean by "special" skill? Like something rare and unusual that you'll have trouble finding a market for?
The whole SEO industry relies heavily upon secrecy and customer ignorance. I wouldn't like to work in an industry that could be destroyed by a few big leaks.
This. If he's poorly certified and doesn't have any outstanding prior accomplishments to rest upon (in other words, isn't a rock star), he'll be lucky to get hired as a toner-change monkey, even if he's a genius. If you have no degree and no experience, to the HR departments you are shit. If you have no degree, no experience, AND no formal education or other certifications, you are shit minus one. Starting his own business is surely a faster path to success for him.
But, if that's really not an option (he said his freelance opportunities have "dried up") here's something I wish I knew sooner: Go on Craigslist and search for people looking for a "php guru." Mostly small (really small) businesses looking for someone to be their website maintainer & unofficial sysadmin. The pay won't be good, but it can keep you employed and add more accomplishments and references to your CV.
You see I think some people are wired from birth to believe and some people are wired not to believe. You are an example of a person who is wired to believe. Your mind cannot disbelieve and others' disbelief is incomprehensible to you. If you were raised by Richard Dawkins and Regina Dawkins, the female Richard Dawkins clone (or a gay Richard Dawkins clone couple, why not?), you'd grow up constantly thinking to yourself "there must be more than this. There must be some consciousness controlling everything in the universe. Deep down I know there is." and at some point you'd seek out religion.
Now flip all that around and maybe you can understand those who are wired not to believe.
Not that this has much to do with your creationism, that's a separate issue where you can't separate the finite universe from your supposedly infinite spiritual world.
I would argue that I know rather a bit more about evolution than most and probably on par with most /.ers
Haha, this comes from the same person who says:
There is the developed eye which is inexplicable which I mentioned earlier. I take similarities to indicate a common designer as that is the simplest explanation it causes all that complexity to collapse into a single idea.
And then you complain about being ridiculed.
no one has ever even observed a full evolution from one species to the next.
WRONG
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/faq-speciation.html#part5
Meh, the only thing history ever gave us is bad Nazi comparisons. We sill run headlong into problems like we've never seen them before anyways.
I feel like the humor in that statement is less obvious than it should be...
It's a truck, it has the aerodynamics of a fridge, and probably a power/torque curve suited for a truck (that is, for hauling rather than going fast).
Most Koenigsegg vehicles are flex fuel and I'm pretty sure they're all faster than that.
True. Maybe it would be more capitalistic to require them to pay into an Epidemic Insurance Fund rather than to deny them a tax benefit. We do it for cars right?
I think we'll just have to agree to disagree on the meaning of skepticism.
...considering that they have socialized medicine. To libertarians this probably looks like a communist nightmare, I'll admit that to me it only seems OK because I don't believe in the Right to Put Everyone In Danger By Being a Total Moron.
It's not circular reasoning, the fact that you think it is proves my point. There's a difference between skepticism and stubbornly refusing to accept new evidence.
You're right, that's just not legal or easy. If you're not afraid to mod your TV though, you can tap into some output lines of the HDCP decoder to get an unencrypted feed.
The only certainty is that it will happen, and it will be because of something unprepared for that is only obvious in hindsight.
The monstrous earthquake/tsunami combo the Fukushima reactor was hit by was "obvious in hindsight?"
If it took a direct hit from a meteor you'd be saying the same thing I guess. There's no certainty that there will be another nuclear disaster. In fact, if no new reactors are built in Natural Disaster Central I'd bet that none of them will suffer disasters, pretty much in line with the rest of the history of nuclear power. If EPIC_STUPIDITY = 0 && BUILT_ON_NATURES_SHOOTING_RANGE=0 then NUCLEAR_DISASTER=0.