And don't forget the arbitrary rules put in place to ensure "strong" passwords - with each ruleset being different depending on the environment or portal being secured. My personal favourite: "No repeating characters allowed." Super idea! Let's force users to weaken their passwords by eliminating the possibility of duplicate characters in strategic locations.
And 40-50 years ago, people would have made the same statement about a motherboard being a rare piece of equipment that must be treated as a long-term investment.
I am of the firm belief that the age of mass production is on the wane. There will of course always be plenty of mass production, but I think the next couple decades will see the rise of customized production in which people can order the fabrication of very specific consumer items, limited only by their own imagination coupled with the capabilities of the fabricator they are ordering from.
Whether the demand is filled by 3D printers, or multi-axis CNC machines, or nanotechnology, or all three in competition, or all 3 in combination, or something else entirely, one thing I know for sure; the prices of production equipment will fall.
FWIW, I am not a professional coder (though I sometimes tinker in my moments of increasingly rare spare time) but I work shoulder-to-shoulder with plenty of them in the course of the work I do. So when I said "Most of the good coders I know would walk right on out the door" I literally meant the good coders I know; the guys I've had dinner with after a brutal day on the client site, or spent an hour and a half chatting at the airport while waiting for our flight. We talk about things, sometimes about ridiculous job opportunities they've been presented with, and what kinds of things send them walking out the door.
Another thing that tends to send quality individuals running for the exits are angry and irrational outbursts that include insults when confronted with a differing opinion.
Use a plain latex condom with no lube or spermicide (trust me on this one). Stretch the condom using your fingers, fist, and finally two fists. You will eventually get it to the point where you can actually slip it over the top of your head. Roll it down until it covers your nose, but not your mouth.
Breath in through your mouth. Breath out through your nose. Condom fills with a little bit of air. Repeat.
Repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat... eventually, the condom will fill with so much air that it literally towers 2 feet above your head, with the little sperm reservoir pointing toward the ceiling. Keep filling... eventually, the condom will burst loudly and dramatically.
I have seen this done at parties and laughed my ass off. I have done this at parties and had the whole room laughing their asses off. The drunker the crowd, the more enthusiastic the response.
I'm having difficulty understanding where the following process requires intervention or is not already fully optimized:
1) Inmate kicks his/her addiction after a lengthy prison sentence
2) Drug-free inmate is released for re-integration into society
3) Former inmate chooses to begin using again, despite the fact he/she kicked the habit months or years ago
4) Former inmate dies from an overdose
5) "Last chance" used up. Former inmate will never trouble anyone again
I continue to get a kick out of the Chinese government's fixation on the Dalai Lama. If the whole thing didn't involve the theft of a nation and the brutal repression of the Tibetan people, the situation would be hilarious in a Monthy Python sort of way.
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And don't forget the arbitrary rules put in place to ensure "strong" passwords - with each ruleset being different depending on the environment or portal being secured. My personal favourite: "No repeating characters allowed." Super idea! Let's force users to weaken their passwords by eliminating the possibility of duplicate characters in strategic locations.
Did the uninstaller work?
Not illegal? Pretty much every jurisdiction in the developed world has some equivalent of a "driving without due care and attention" charge.
That's an awful lot of effort to go and visit failure
And 40-50 years ago, people would have made the same statement about a motherboard being a rare piece of equipment that must be treated as a long-term investment.
I am of the firm belief that the age of mass production is on the wane. There will of course always be plenty of mass production, but I think the next couple decades will see the rise of customized production in which people can order the fabrication of very specific consumer items, limited only by their own imagination coupled with the capabilities of the fabricator they are ordering from.
Whether the demand is filled by 3D printers, or multi-axis CNC machines, or nanotechnology, or all three in competition, or all 3 in combination, or something else entirely, one thing I know for sure; the prices of production equipment will fall.
Angry much?
FWIW, I am not a professional coder (though I sometimes tinker in my moments of increasingly rare spare time) but I work shoulder-to-shoulder with plenty of them in the course of the work I do. So when I said "Most of the good coders I know would walk right on out the door" I literally meant the good coders I know; the guys I've had dinner with after a brutal day on the client site, or spent an hour and a half chatting at the airport while waiting for our flight. We talk about things, sometimes about ridiculous job opportunities they've been presented with, and what kinds of things send them walking out the door.
Another thing that tends to send quality individuals running for the exits are angry and irrational outbursts that include insults when confronted with a differing opinion.
Without the hardware, the software would just be a bunch of interesting ideas on a monitor.
What is more valuable, a 5-axis CNC machine, or the Mafia Wars FB app?
Double what it will cost in 2 years, four times what it will cost in 4 years, and ten times what it will cost in a decade.
How long you willing to wait?
Recruiters are a great source of entertainment.
Week 1: "Technology XYZ is really hot right now. If you can put some of that on your resume I can get you all kinds of interviews."
Week 12: "Technology ABC is really hot right now. If you can put some of that on your resume I can get you all kinds of interviews."
Week 24: "Say, do you know anything about technology QRS? I was just talking to the program director at one of my biggest clients and ..."
You want a good coder? ... Have them write you something small for free.
Most of the good coders I know would walk right on out the door if the first thing you asked them to do was write something for free.
Yes, but just not as many times.
Security through obscurity
Yeah, but this means you have to drive a Dodge.
I know when I'm away from the wife, it's the hugs I miss the most.
Give it five years
Sergei Brin: Last week we pulled out of China, and today we're pulling out of Rupert Murdoch.
Define "problem"
lining the bottom of bird cages with iPads will be prohibitively expensive
There's an app for that.
It doesn't exactly help dispel the notion that the iPad is for douchebags.
Fun party trick:
Use a plain latex condom with no lube or spermicide (trust me on this one). Stretch the condom using your fingers, fist, and finally two fists. You will eventually get it to the point where you can actually slip it over the top of your head. Roll it down until it covers your nose, but not your mouth.
Breath in through your mouth. Breath out through your nose. Condom fills with a little bit of air. Repeat.
Repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat ... eventually, the condom will fill with so much air that it literally towers 2 feet above your head, with the little sperm reservoir pointing toward the ceiling. Keep filling ... eventually, the condom will burst loudly and dramatically.
I have seen this done at parties and laughed my ass off. I have done this at parties and had the whole room laughing their asses off. The drunker the crowd, the more enthusiastic the response.
I'm having difficulty understanding where the following process requires intervention or is not already fully optimized:
1) Inmate kicks his/her addiction after a lengthy prison sentence
2) Drug-free inmate is released for re-integration into society
3) Former inmate chooses to begin using again, despite the fact he/she kicked the habit months or years ago
4) Former inmate dies from an overdose
5) "Last chance" used up. Former inmate will never trouble anyone again
Who are these two dozen people, and where exactly are you taking them?
Do you think it's going to be zombies? I haven't done any zombie prep at all.
I continue to get a kick out of the Chinese government's fixation on the Dalai Lama. If the whole thing didn't involve the theft of a nation and the brutal repression of the Tibetan people, the situation would be hilarious in a Monthy Python sort of way.