There's an app called evocam that will take a pic every x seconds and save it. you can have evocam save the photos to your dropbox folder. It's free to try for a month, so if you can still access your desktop it might be worth a shot.
What's missing here is the fact that TJX didn't take reasonable precautions to protect the data.
Looks like you're the kinda guy that blames rape victims for dressing too sexy.
Nonsense. Companies have an actual legal and contractual obligation to protect the data of their customers and the banks they do business with. Whether TJX took proper precautions is debatable but it's not even close to the same thing as blaming the victim. The real victims here are the credit card holders who trusted TJX when they bought some clothes or whatever not to leave their personal info open to hackers stealing 11 million credit card numbers. Those people (and the credit card banks) are suing TJX for damages under multiple class action cases.
Medical researchers who would like to know the demographics of an area and how they affect various health issues
Demographers who research race/ethnicity and a whole host of things
i could go on, but you've clearly got an axe to grind.
Keep tilting at windmills.
From what I have read and learned over the years, there's no scientific definition of race. Genetically there's no identifiable or significant genetic difference between humans of one so-called "race" and another. As the poster above noted, it's about as useful as eye color or shoe size in terms of classifying human beings for the purposes of real scientific research, although race continues to be widely used in such research. There are plenty of scientists who consider racial categorization to actually be detrimental to getting at real root causes rather than superficial categories of people.
Scientific American had a whole issue about this question a few years ago. From the online summary of "Does Race Exist?" (December, 2003 issue) they note: "Does Race Exist? If races are defined as genetically discrete groups, no. But researchers can use some genetic information to group individuals into clusters with medical relevance."
That is very different from saying that race itself (i.e. parentage or skin color) is useful, except as shorthand for culture or geographic background of a person, and even that is dubious, at best.
has anyone on slashdot ever learned to use a dictionary? clearly there are two accepted ways of pronouncing it
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nuclear
Pronunciation: \nü-kl-r, nyü-, ÷-ky-lr\
usage Though disapproved of by many, pronunciations ending in \-ky-lr\ have been found in widespread use among educated speakers including scientists, lawyers, professors, congressmen, United States cabinet members, and at least two United States presidents and one vice president. While most common in the United States, these pronunciations have also been heard from British and Canadian speakers.
I wish I had mod points for you. It's buried at the end of the first page of the article but you're exactly right - they clearly state that the pin you enter is compared to the pin on the card... These researchers didn't even break that comparison mechanism, they just impersonate the chip to tell the payment processor "yup all is well, pin is verified!"
The product they sell is so good, businesses are adapting to Apple - using open standards rather than developing for IE,.NET, etc, making things work cross-platform, etc. Apple just needs to keep doing what they do well already and "the enterprise" will catch up. It's already happening.
This is how they solve the problem of backwards compatibility and get everyone onto Windows.Next or Win8 or whatever. Break all OSes prior to Win7 with "patches" thereby forcing everyone to PAY UP SUCKAS....
If I had mod points I'd give them to this AC. Any job is what you make of it. What I'm learning from this discussion on/. is how many people have piss poor attitudes and expect to get something for nothing.
I worked for a megacorp like that for about 10 months and left. Now i'm working at another megacorp not at all like that, been here for about 3 years.
YMMV.
Similar experience in a non-tech role, I interviewed a guy with an MBA but no experience, I explained that he was welcome to apply but would find it challenging to get the role when experience was absolutely necessary for this position. We didn't have the time to hand hold someone along. Anyway he immediately turned on me, started whining and getting angry "well how am I supposed to get into your field if everyone needs experience" etc.
Very different from the young man without the MBA who came to me and earnestly wanted to interview for the role despite having that same hurdle to overcome, correctly realizing that there was value in learning more about the job and by meeting the people on the team, he could potentially impress us enough that we waived the experience requirement - or if not, he at least saw value in building the relationships that would come from the process.
Needless to say, neither guy got the job, but that MBA would need to think twice about darkening my doorstep again, whereas the eager young man is someone I will keep in mind if I find a position that needs a sharp, motivated, positive person but doesn't require the experience.
One more point - both of them could have decided that I was arrogant and holding the keys and requiring them to kiss ass, but the reality is I am confident (not arrogant) and I DO hold the keys, and while I don't expect ass kissing I also expect that part of the interview is not just your skills on paper but your ability to play nice in the sandbox with the other employees.
If you walk in with the attitude of the AC above, interpreting the situation to be that I need my ass kissed, and that I am assumed to be arrogant because I do work as a manager at a mega-corp, well, it's a self-fulfilling prophecy. Good luck in your job hunt, you fill find a good position with a company of fellow paranoid schizophrenics I guess.
Aside for the formatting of skill lists and stuff, its pretty good, which means one thing, in my opinion: he is another victim of the "YOUR RESUME MUST BE ONE PAGE REGARDLESS OF YOUR EXPERIENCE!!!!!111!" school of thought.
The one page resume rule: hurting professionals everywhere since....well, ever.
if i had mod points i'd mod this +1 Insightful also. I've had an increasingly-long resume as I have moved up in my career. It started out as one of those "fit it in one page" jobs which makes sense when you are starting your career. People who have no experience, should not have a long resume. But if you've had any sort of career (which this Grossbart fellow seems to have had) it's right and proper to give adequate space to explaining what you did in these jobs, and highlighting your successes over that time. Most importantly, don't assume anyone is going to actually "read" your resume. Bullet points let the reader skim quickly, which is what most people do. Grossbart's resume has a lot of words about his decade+ at Novell, but even reading it, it isn't clear what he actually accomplished as an individual.
Interesting with all that policing and tolerant liberal/progressive do gooders running things Austin can't seem to do anything about the homeless begging at every major intersection even outside the city, and harassing you for change urinating on things, stealing, and generally being a nuisance, if you are walking around downtown. I don't live in Austin but I visit for work and the people are mostly nice but the town they have created for themselves really does suck.
A second article linked from that lifehacker post pointed to this item http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/50035115 at ikea that looks really useful. You attach it to the underside of your desk at the back, and it acts as a tray for the wires which at least keeps them off the floor. That plus cable ties is probably the most straightforward thing to do.
try to oppose the law on principle and you'll find yourself in the position of having to defend the bigots, something that even those most committed to free speech find repellent.
It's precisely the most unpopular speech that requires the most vigorous defense. If "freedom of speech" were only about defending popular speech, it wouldn't be worth much. You defend the bigoted neo-Nazis right to speech most vigorously because you might find yourself tomorrow saying something deemed unpopular, and then where will you be? In jail right next to those neo-Nazis!
Question is do we really need the Federal government rather than state/local governments assessing taxes and doling out money for road repairs for anything other than federally funded interstate highways? And why do they need to track *everyone's* movements in order to determine this? Seems to me the same effect would be gained simply by ratcheting up the per gallon tax as cars get more efficient without the dubious need to invade privacy.
Also, having worked in computer security, I've learned that there is an *awful* lot of information that can be gleaned by analyzing traffic patterns. You can extract all kinds of information, based on your behavior and patterns and networks of locations you visit.
"ICEPIC is a toolset that assists ICE law enforcement agents and analysts in identifying suspect identities and discovering possible non-obvious relationships among individuals and organizations that are indicative of violations of the customs and immigration laws as well as possible terrorist threats and plots."
So the lesson here is, install a clean copy of windows and don't install any software unless you want your boot time to go up by 4x and the machine to not be responsive?
I'm so glad I finally smartened up over the past few years and abandoned windows for greener OS pastures...
I don't know how it is in England, having never been there, but if that's at all what it's like, move out to the wilderness, and shoot at anyone who comes within 10 miles of your homestead.
So what you're saying in effect is subordinate yourself to the system and you'll "feel free". Are you saying you feel free relative to your neighbors who aren't allowed free expression or association? How's that Great Firewall treating you? Want to talk to your friends over there about the Tiananmen Square massacre which has been effectively erased down the memory hole? Care to associate with spiritual seekers from Falun Gong or does that fall outside your definition of living within the law, to shun those who the government has deemed unacceptable?
Would be helpful to know where those numbers come from, do they represent total public + private healthcare investment (big difference would be seen in those numbers for statist versus free market systems) but I also don't see how investment in military is a bad thing given the original question.
If I migrate to a Latin American country that is on the "high HDI" list, but there's suddenly an authoritarian government coup in the country next door, who then starts agitating for a similar takeover in my new home country, how strongly will my new country be able to resist backsliding into anarchy or despotism? I think that has to factor in, not just how "free" the place is today, but how likely or unlikely for things to reverse themselves quickly. The relative long term stability of the system that country has must be a factor as well. The Baltic states look good on the HDI list now, but keep in mind there's been a hell of a lot of turmoil there in the past decade or so.
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Caveat emptor - hotel safes are not necessarily safe. Many have very simple default passwords so that the hotel management can get in if you forget your password. http://gizmodo.com/5837561/can-000000-secretly-open-your-hotel-safe
There's an app called evocam that will take a pic every x seconds and save it. you can have evocam save the photos to your dropbox folder. It's free to try for a month, so if you can still access your desktop it might be worth a shot.
What's missing here is the fact that TJX didn't take reasonable precautions to protect the data.
Looks like you're the kinda guy that blames rape victims for dressing too sexy.
Nonsense. Companies have an actual legal and contractual obligation to protect the data of their customers and the banks they do business with. Whether TJX took proper precautions is debatable but it's not even close to the same thing as blaming the victim. The real victims here are the credit card holders who trusted TJX when they bought some clothes or whatever not to leave their personal info open to hackers stealing 11 million credit card numbers. Those people (and the credit card banks) are suing TJX for damages under multiple class action cases.
Medical researchers who would like to know the demographics of an area and how they affect various health issues Demographers who research race/ethnicity and a whole host of things
i could go on, but you've clearly got an axe to grind.
Keep tilting at windmills.
From what I have read and learned over the years, there's no scientific definition of race. Genetically there's no identifiable or significant genetic difference between humans of one so-called "race" and another. As the poster above noted, it's about as useful as eye color or shoe size in terms of classifying human beings for the purposes of real scientific research, although race continues to be widely used in such research. There are plenty of scientists who consider racial categorization to actually be detrimental to getting at real root causes rather than superficial categories of people.
Scientific American had a whole issue about this question a few years ago. From the online summary of "Does Race Exist?" (December, 2003 issue) they note: "Does Race Exist? If races are defined as genetically discrete groups, no. But researchers can use some genetic information to group individuals into clusters with medical relevance."
That is very different from saying that race itself (i.e. parentage or skin color) is useful, except as shorthand for culture or geographic background of a person, and even that is dubious, at best.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nuclear
Pronunciation: \nü-kl-r, nyü-, ÷-ky-lr\
usage Though disapproved of by many, pronunciations ending in \-ky-lr\ have been found in widespread use among educated speakers including scientists, lawyers, professors, congressmen, United States cabinet members, and at least two United States presidents and one vice president. While most common in the United States, these pronunciations have also been heard from British and Canadian speakers.
Good point... Save your receipts... This will not be fun for the person who bought Windows and then is accused by Microsoft of stealing it.
I wish I had mod points for you. It's buried at the end of the first page of the article but you're exactly right - they clearly state that the pin you enter is compared to the pin on the card... These researchers didn't even break that comparison mechanism, they just impersonate the chip to tell the payment processor "yup all is well, pin is verified!"
The product they sell is so good, businesses are adapting to Apple - using open standards rather than developing for IE, .NET, etc, making things work cross-platform, etc. Apple just needs to keep doing what they do well already and "the enterprise" will catch up. It's already happening.
This is how they solve the problem of backwards compatibility and get everyone onto Windows.Next or Win8 or whatever. Break all OSes prior to Win7 with "patches" thereby forcing everyone to PAY UP SUCKAS....
Right - either that, or Bethesda is going to release an actual nuke, so that we can all run around the blast zone shooting at mutated wildlife.
If I had mod points I'd give them to this AC. Any job is what you make of it. What I'm learning from this discussion on /. is how many people have piss poor attitudes and expect to get something for nothing.
I worked for a megacorp like that for about 10 months and left. Now i'm working at another megacorp not at all like that, been here for about 3 years. YMMV.
That link led me to this even more classic one:
Silly job interview
Similar experience in a non-tech role, I interviewed a guy with an MBA but no experience, I explained that he was welcome to apply but would find it challenging to get the role when experience was absolutely necessary for this position. We didn't have the time to hand hold someone along. Anyway he immediately turned on me, started whining and getting angry "well how am I supposed to get into your field if everyone needs experience" etc.
Very different from the young man without the MBA who came to me and earnestly wanted to interview for the role despite having that same hurdle to overcome, correctly realizing that there was value in learning more about the job and by meeting the people on the team, he could potentially impress us enough that we waived the experience requirement - or if not, he at least saw value in building the relationships that would come from the process.
Needless to say, neither guy got the job, but that MBA would need to think twice about darkening my doorstep again, whereas the eager young man is someone I will keep in mind if I find a position that needs a sharp, motivated, positive person but doesn't require the experience. One more point - both of them could have decided that I was arrogant and holding the keys and requiring them to kiss ass, but the reality is I am confident (not arrogant) and I DO hold the keys, and while I don't expect ass kissing I also expect that part of the interview is not just your skills on paper but your ability to play nice in the sandbox with the other employees. If you walk in with the attitude of the AC above, interpreting the situation to be that I need my ass kissed, and that I am assumed to be arrogant because I do work as a manager at a mega-corp, well, it's a self-fulfilling prophecy. Good luck in your job hunt, you fill find a good position with a company of fellow paranoid schizophrenics I guess.
a much more credible report, IMO because they are at least honest about their methodology and the weaknesses or strengths of how to look at different data: http://www-935.ibm.com/services/us/iss/xforce/trendreports/xforce-2008-annual-report.pdf
Aside for the formatting of skill lists and stuff, its pretty good, which means one thing, in my opinion: he is another victim of the "YOUR RESUME MUST BE ONE PAGE REGARDLESS OF YOUR EXPERIENCE!!!!!111!" school of thought.
The one page resume rule: hurting professionals everywhere since....well, ever.
if i had mod points i'd mod this +1 Insightful also. I've had an increasingly-long resume as I have moved up in my career. It started out as one of those "fit it in one page" jobs which makes sense when you are starting your career. People who have no experience, should not have a long resume. But if you've had any sort of career (which this Grossbart fellow seems to have had) it's right and proper to give adequate space to explaining what you did in these jobs, and highlighting your successes over that time. Most importantly, don't assume anyone is going to actually "read" your resume. Bullet points let the reader skim quickly, which is what most people do. Grossbart's resume has a lot of words about his decade+ at Novell, but even reading it, it isn't clear what he actually accomplished as an individual.
Interesting with all that policing and tolerant liberal/progressive do gooders running things Austin can't seem to do anything about the homeless begging at every major intersection even outside the city, and harassing you for change urinating on things, stealing, and generally being a nuisance, if you are walking around downtown. I don't live in Austin but I visit for work and the people are mostly nice but the town they have created for themselves really does suck.
I remember stuck A and B buttons on the official N64 controllers. SNES controllers were indestructible. You could build a bunker out of Game Boys.
great pic. mod parent post up. amazing to see the damn thing still works after you drop a bomb on it and set it on fire.
A second article linked from that lifehacker post pointed to this item http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/50035115 at ikea that looks really useful. You attach it to the underside of your desk at the back, and it acts as a tray for the wires which at least keeps them off the floor. That plus cable ties is probably the most straightforward thing to do.
try to oppose the law on principle and you'll find yourself in the position of having to defend the bigots, something that even those most committed to free speech find repellent.
It's precisely the most unpopular speech that requires the most vigorous defense. If "freedom of speech" were only about defending popular speech, it wouldn't be worth much. You defend the bigoted neo-Nazis right to speech most vigorously because you might find yourself tomorrow saying something deemed unpopular, and then where will you be? In jail right next to those neo-Nazis!
Also, having worked in computer security, I've learned that there is an *awful* lot of information that can be gleaned by analyzing traffic patterns. You can extract all kinds of information, based on your behavior and patterns and networks of locations you visit.
See for example http://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/privacy/privacy_pia_ice_icepic.pdf (emphasis mine):
I'm so glad I finally smartened up over the past few years and abandoned windows for greener OS pastures...
I don't know how it is in England, having never been there, but if that's at all what it's like, move out to the wilderness, and shoot at anyone who comes within 10 miles of your homestead.
Unfortunately that doesn't quite seem to work in the UK, apparently: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Martin_(farmer)
So what you're saying in effect is subordinate yourself to the system and you'll "feel free". Are you saying you feel free relative to your neighbors who aren't allowed free expression or association? How's that Great Firewall treating you? Want to talk to your friends over there about the Tiananmen Square massacre which has been effectively erased down the memory hole? Care to associate with spiritual seekers from Falun Gong or does that fall outside your definition of living within the law, to shun those who the government has deemed unacceptable?
Would be helpful to know where those numbers come from, do they represent total public + private healthcare investment (big difference would be seen in those numbers for statist versus free market systems) but I also don't see how investment in military is a bad thing given the original question.
If I migrate to a Latin American country that is on the "high HDI" list, but there's suddenly an authoritarian government coup in the country next door, who then starts agitating for a similar takeover in my new home country, how strongly will my new country be able to resist backsliding into anarchy or despotism? I think that has to factor in, not just how "free" the place is today, but how likely or unlikely for things to reverse themselves quickly. The relative long term stability of the system that country has must be a factor as well. The Baltic states look good on the HDI list now, but keep in mind there's been a hell of a lot of turmoil there in the past decade or so.