So why are headhunters still calling me up and trying to lowball me on software developer contracts? With H1B Visas getting shut down, they should be especially short on software engineers, shouldn't they?
Just because a job is open, doesn't mean it's either
A) A good job
B) A job that's offering pay commensurate with experience,,
Nobody but the truly desperate would even bother applying for jobs like these.
now, this is a job that could easily be done by an AI program.
The article summary didn't say if the physicists were actually watching the atomic clocks, or just monitoring them, but I'm hoping they were able to do some other work during the years...
"Facebook said that just because the proposals were blocked, that didn't mean the company doesn't care about these issues."
They care very deeply, because of the potential loss of revenue if they can't continue to harvest their "customers" data like the Japanese harvest whales.
back in the day, conferences were smaller, less "markety" and you could actually meet and have good discussions with people who were the actual drivers of technology.
The value of the networking done with people at the conferences meant you could actually directly contact people who could help you when you ran into a problem or found a bug in a new technology.
Something changed and it became all about the product, not the people, and conferences got bigger and less personal, and with the exception of more prizes and t-shirts less valuable career-wise.
I enjoy some repartee with my dealer, and to know when to walk away when they bring in a new (mean/Chiller) dealer.
It would probably cost less, because I tip my human dealers and waitresses, but certainly less "fun". with robots. If I want creepy animatronics, I can go to a Disney park,
I also wonder how a robodealer would figure out I was counting cards with multiple decks....
I'm pretty sure some "nice" company will create strains of GMO rice which will replace all the older strains with only slightly more cost, contractual limits and higher levels of herbicides./s
If I buy something and it's defective, I'm going to return it.
If Amazon is selling junk, or "refurbished" items as new, that's a problem.
But now I'm concerned that if as usual I order and pay for 1 of an item and receive 200 of them, whether I should just keep them so I'm not mis-categorized as a serial returner.
It's a continuum. At one end you have very computing-centric issues like "how confident does this automated turret need to be about the identity of its target before opening fire?" which isn't really a business matter at all. At the opposite end are things like "should skin colour factor into eligibility for a home loan?" which is clearly a monetary risk assessment. Ethics in Computing courses tend to cover this whole spectrum, along with topics like net neutrality, media piracy (and toxic industry behaviour), and the social impact of the surveillance state. You're right that whenever business decisions get automated, there's a convergence between business and computing ethics, but there are many other ethical dilemmas that a programmer may need to be aware of in order to be a responsible professional. That's why these courses are often mandatory for CS majors.
Thanks, when I was in college, the biggest new thing was software engineering.
None of most of the other issues you mentioned even existed outside of academic discussions over beers.
All a long long time ago, and I was never really considered a programmer. Just a fixer.
Most of the time I ended up doing some sort of programming to fix "issues" that always seemed to come up while integrating purchased software.
"Amazon Cloud" is vague. I couldn't find any mention in the article itself of what the security hole was of said AWS servers. It could be bad S3 permissions (AWS has actually sent customers Emails about this repeatedly), it could be passwordless accounts in SSH, it could be a MySQL server exposed publicly without authentication requirements, etc.. Lots of possibilities. It just says "two leaky servers", which isn't very precise.
In most cases, this all boils down to bad (or lack thereof) systems administration by the Amazon customer. If it's S3, Amazon has sent out Emails to all customers, multiple times, stressing the importance of proper S3 and IAM policies and to review said policies.
If it's EC2, SSH is open to the world by default (as it should be), and it's expected that the administrator lock it down (either through security groups or network ACLs); if you open up an Amazon technical support request (for anything!), they actually by habit review SGs and ACLs and will tell you "BTW, your servers have SSH open to the world, you should fix that" (sometimes it cannot be fixed, as some employees/etc. have roaming IPs).
If it's an RDS instance (ex. MySQL), then yes, the servers default to being publicly-accessible (it's a radio button you can toggle between private/VPC-only and public during the final stage of deployment); I agree "private" would be a better default.
That said: for whatever reason, security is rarely in the foregrounds of the minds of DevOps people today. For those of us that are "old beardo" UNIX SAs, it's the first thing that comes to mind when someone asks for something, and is often a reason we tell people "no you cannot have that".
And if you pay someone to regularly do security scans, or do your own on "Cloud" instances, you should probably consider just getting an MBA so you can't do more harm in the future./s
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So why are headhunters still calling me up and trying to lowball me on software developer contracts? With H1B Visas getting shut down, they should be especially short on software engineers, shouldn't they?
Just because a job is open, doesn't mean it's either
A) A good job
B) A job that's offering pay commensurate with experience,,
Nobody but the truly desperate would even bother applying for jobs like these.
That and of course the mandatory drug tests.... /s
"The bank said it would compensate customers in full for any fraud they suffered."
I believe my solicitors may have a slight difference of opinion of the number of significant digits of compensation...
now, this is a job that could easily be done by an AI program.
The article summary didn't say if the physicists were actually watching the atomic clocks, or just monitoring them, but I'm hoping they were able to do some other work during the years...
to not know, and continue to be blissfully ignorant, or suffer the pain of knowing, and being unable to do anything about it?
"Facebook said that just because the proposals were blocked, that didn't mean the company doesn't care about these issues."
They care very deeply, because of the potential loss of revenue if they can't continue to harvest their "customers" data like the Japanese harvest whales.
back in the day, conferences were smaller, less "markety" and you could actually meet and have good discussions with people who were the actual drivers of technology.
The value of the networking done with people at the conferences meant you could actually directly contact people who could help you when you ran into a problem or found a bug in a new technology.
Something changed and it became all about the product, not the people, and conferences got bigger and less personal, and with the exception of more prizes and t-shirts less valuable career-wise.
My solution?
If you're not in my contact list, I'm not answering.
If it's important, leave a message.
If you call me more than twice and don't leave a message, your number is blocked...
they want their secret police surveillance back.
What's next? Youth groups and book burnings? /s
I'd like a company to apologize for being short sighted and cheaping out on security for short term financial gains.
Not that it will ever happen.
you could probably make some change rooting and flashing new images on unsupported samsung phones.
they start with inappropriate boner tracking and social media
"loss of face".
Of course after a few generations, there won't be any more natural pregnancies due to the lack of sexual enthusiasm and fear of social repercussions.
I was thinking the same thing, so I went digging in the old (you know, that musty two-day old) slashdot thread. It wasn't straightforward to find it in there but there was a good comment with it. https://blog.talosintelligence.com/2018/05/VPNFilter.html. You can CTRL + F to "Known Affected Devices" and it has them listed. The original comment for aficionados.
Thanks for that. Doing the work OP didn't bother to in the article
Now, if they actually listed which router/NAS models and firmware versions were problematic. Or how to diagnose if you were impacted...
If you have remote management turned on for your router or NAS, you should always expect special surprises.
it could just directly push the data to my facebook account it would save a lot of time. /s
I enjoy some repartee with my dealer, and to know when to walk away when they bring in a new (mean/Chiller) dealer.
It would probably cost less, because I tip my human dealers and waitresses, but certainly less "fun". with robots. If I want creepy animatronics, I can go to a Disney park,
I also wonder how a robodealer would figure out I was counting cards with multiple decks....
How bad can carbonated rice be?
Japanese Rice Lager is pretty tasty, probably less nutritious,,,
I'm pretty sure some "nice" company will create strains of GMO rice which will replace all the older strains with only slightly more cost, contractual limits and higher levels of herbicides. /s
If I buy something and it's defective, I'm going to return it.
If Amazon is selling junk, or "refurbished" items as new, that's a problem.
But now I'm concerned that if as usual I order and pay for 1 of an item and receive 200 of them, whether I should just keep them so I'm not mis-categorized as a serial returner.
It's a continuum. At one end you have very computing-centric issues like "how confident does this automated turret need to be about the identity of its target before opening fire?" which isn't really a business matter at all. At the opposite end are things like "should skin colour factor into eligibility for a home loan?" which is clearly a monetary risk assessment. Ethics in Computing courses tend to cover this whole spectrum, along with topics like net neutrality, media piracy (and toxic industry behaviour), and the social impact of the surveillance state. You're right that whenever business decisions get automated, there's a convergence between business and computing ethics, but there are many other ethical dilemmas that a programmer may need to be aware of in order to be a responsible professional. That's why these courses are often mandatory for CS majors.
Thanks, when I was in college, the biggest new thing was software engineering.
None of most of the other issues you mentioned even existed outside of academic discussions over beers.
All a long long time ago, and I was never really considered a programmer. Just a fixer.
Most of the time I ended up doing some sort of programming to fix "issues" that always seemed to come up while integrating purchased software.
Computer "Ethics" Class?
Should they actually legislate or continue to pussyfoot around the real problem, "Business Ethics"?
if Prime video services worked on my non Fire android box.
(and Prime didn't increase in price 10-20% every year)
Or if a Whole Foods existed closer than 500 miles from where I lived.
Or if there weren't 2 organic farm stores less than 1/2 mile from my house with prices less than 1/4 the local stores prices.
"Amazon Cloud" is vague. I couldn't find any mention in the article itself of what the security hole was of said AWS servers. It could be bad S3 permissions (AWS has actually sent customers Emails about this repeatedly), it could be passwordless accounts in SSH, it could be a MySQL server exposed publicly without authentication requirements, etc.. Lots of possibilities. It just says "two leaky servers", which isn't very precise.
In most cases, this all boils down to bad (or lack thereof) systems administration by the Amazon customer. If it's S3, Amazon has sent out Emails to all customers, multiple times, stressing the importance of proper S3 and IAM policies and to review said policies.
If it's EC2, SSH is open to the world by default (as it should be), and it's expected that the administrator lock it down (either through security groups or network ACLs); if you open up an Amazon technical support request (for anything!), they actually by habit review SGs and ACLs and will tell you "BTW, your servers have SSH open to the world, you should fix that" (sometimes it cannot be fixed, as some employees/etc. have roaming IPs).
If it's an RDS instance (ex. MySQL), then yes, the servers default to being publicly-accessible (it's a radio button you can toggle between private/VPC-only and public during the final stage of deployment); I agree "private" would be a better default.
That said: for whatever reason, security is rarely in the foregrounds of the minds of DevOps people today. For those of us that are "old beardo" UNIX SAs, it's the first thing that comes to mind when someone asks for something, and is often a reason we tell people "no you cannot have that".
And if you pay someone to regularly do security scans, or do your own on "Cloud" instances, you should probably consider just getting an MBA so you can't do more harm in the future. /s
Will anybody speak for the Calamari?
Or even the Cuttlefish...
I'm surprised that there aren't tons of coal burning plants being built or brought back online. /s
Most of the coal burning plants around here have already been torn down, or replaced by a much smaller scale/footprint natural gas generating plants.
There is a push for solar, and wind farms, I'd like to see more emphasis on storage.
Google has replaced already obsolete don't be evil with be politically correct, progressivist and mandatory neo-marxsist-leninist-feminist.
I think you mean, don't bother applying if you are a white hetero male aka the bane of silicon Valley and the cause of all mankind's problems. /s
Well that or their new motto is:
Don't be evil (if you think you may be caught)
Or maybe there are a bunch of executives sitting in their lairs/offices stroking their white cats and buying islands.