An attacker doesn't care -why- there are a bunch of system calls. Its all machihe language at that point. That those calls happen presents an opportunity to inject malicious code.
If your basic claim about C/C++ is right then the consequence is that code written per "standard practice" in C++ is inherently harder to secure than code written in C.
Pressure turns a turbine which generates power. The more pressure available, the bigger the turbine can be and the better return on investment you get on the equipment.
In a hydroelectric plant, pressure is generated by dropping water. The further it drops, the heavier the weight of the water on top and the more pressure on the turbine. That means building a dam. Dams kill river life and destroy whole ecosystems.
Remember, the turbine doesn't want to turn: action meets opposite reaction. You can't just place it in a stream; the water will flow around it unless there is only a trivial amount of electric load.
Point: the hydroelectric station at Mammoth Spring Arkanas was abandoned because it wasn't commercially viable. Mammoth Spring is the tenth largest spring in the world, ejecting nearly 10 million gallons of water per hour from the ground. Its a constrained water flow already under tremendous pressure. And it's not price-competitive competitive with oil-steam plants.
Tidal systems face the same problem. Yes there is a tremendous amount of energy in the moving tide, but that's only because there is so much water. The water doesn't move very fast and the total change in height is not very much. You'd need an insanely diffuse system to capture commercially useful amounts of energy from that and you'd need to maintain that system in salt water and hurricanes. Worse, its cyclic hitting peaks and lulls with zero generation at the lulls. Power demand doesn't follow the moon's cycle. And again, you're constraining water flow which would kill much of the wildlife over the vast area in which this thing would have to be constructed.
Net Neutrality is not about the type of traffic, its about the source of the traffic. They can still refuse to let you run servers on your residential line (peer to peer makes your machine a server). And they can disrupt your attempts to violate the contract by throttling BitTorrent if they so desire.
So basically this guy's complaint is that he couldn't get Linux desktop applications to work perfectly with MS Exchange and MS Word, two of Microsoft's most proprietary applications? It worked, just not perfectly. So he gave up.
It strikes me that you could substitute MacOS or any other OS except Windows in the guy's story and all of his complaints would still be accurate.
I stand corrected. Hydrogen is in fact difficult to store in industrially useful quantities. There is some interesting research on catalytic storage but I promised technologies that are known to work today.
So, replace that component of the solution. Dump the steamer cars and replace them with plug-in hybrids that have enough battery power to get to and from work every day without starting the gasoline engine.
Then set taxes on long-haul trucking such that its more economical to load the freight containers on to trains and do only short-haul trucking at each end. Trucking only survives because of the subsidized cost of the roads (which is not even close to fully covered at the weigh stations) and the pollution cost of rail freight is much lower per pound of delivered goods. Also, once nuclear electricity gets into full swing it may be viable to consider electric rail instead of diesel rail.
Finally, set offer tax breaks for converting fossil-fuel motors in factories to electric.
Some other posts have commented about the waste storage problem that nuclear has. What problem? Radiation from low grade waste drops to safe levels within a few hundred years at which point it can be disposed of in a normal landfill.
High grade waste consumes relatively little volume and as the industrial chemest once said: there's no such thing as a waste product; there are only products which are wasted. Think plastics from the waste sludge from processing oil. Spent fuel pellets and the like wait only for some clever fellow to find a commercially useful application... A process which if history is a guide should dispose of about 50% of the waste every 100 years.
How to end US carbon emissions in 30 years without damaging the US economy:
Step 1: Build nuclear power plants. Update the designs with modern technology and give tax incentives for every new nuke plant built.
Reason: 50's and 60's technology nuke plants currently generate electricity for less money than any other technology, even coal. They cost less than a third of what oil and natural gas plants cost. With modern technology its likely we could improve safety while lowering the cost further. Speaking of safety: the worst US accident in 50 years of opererating nuclear energey plants was three mile island, in which no radiation leaked and no one got hurt.
Yes, worse accidents are possible. That means that over a long enough period of time they will happen. But weigh the rare environmental damage from a meltdown against the continuous destruction of the atmosphere by hyrdocarbon burning plants.
Step 2: With the cost of electricty driven cheap enough by nuke plants, shift to hydrogen-based internal combustion engines. With electrolysis done at off-peak hours to generate hydrogen from electricity, every home can be its own fueling station. Hydrogen burns with oxygen to make water, so go drive a steamer.
Reason: Imagine a city, maybe the city you live in, where the only air pollution is the occasional methane from peoples' farts! Nuclear makes its possible and these technologies are economical now, not just in some hypothetical future after more research.
A.xxx domain could be valuable to the porn industry. Right now they're on the hook when a minor accesses their site. They have to deal with thousands of varying locality laws on the subject. Sometimes their precautions are good enough, sometimes they're not. Sometimes porn purveyors find themselves arrested because little Johnnie found an access code on some message board and Mom caught him online.
Its not like porn sites want visits by children. Children don't pay.
With a.xxx domain and a little help from the US Congress,.xxx could be a legally safe place for Internet porn. It takes one simple law: "A web site accessible only via a.xxx URL is deemed to have taken reasonable precaution against access by minors and shall not be held liable for the same." And then set up http redirects on the old.com sites so that all access is funneled through the.xxx names.
Ha! That's one I didn't consider. You're right; at a 5% tax, it wouldn't round up to the first tenth-dollar until you spent a full dollar. I can almost imagine the dollar stores dropping their prices to 90 cents er 9 tenths.:)
Seems reasonable to me. A well written Wikipedia article already cites its sources. Just follow the trail and in the process learn whether that particular article is accurate.
1. Release a new half-dollar coin that is about the size and cost of a nickel. Make it maybe a little smaller with a rough edge so that coin mechs won't see it as a nickel. The existing 50-cent coin is too big, too expensive to produce and unsupported by automated coin mechs.
2. Release a new dime design that looks and works just like current dimes except its a "tenth dollar," not ten cents.
3. Cease production of the penny and nickle.
4. Phase out production of the quarter over the course of a decade. The new system calls for tenths of a dollar and the quarter is an odd quantity.
5. At the same time, increase the mass production of the dollar coin. With room for it in the cash register, it'll see increasing use.
The result: US currency moves to a system of dollars and tenths of a dollar, leaving the old system of cents behind. Nobody feels cheated by rounding because its no different than rounding to cents is now.
It also creates a precedent for phasing out the sub-dollar coins 50 years from now.
Step 1. Call your new boss and tell him: 1. The company is refusing to honor the terms of the offer, and 2. If the company does not honor the terms of the offer, your acceptance is rescinded. Wait 48 hours and find out if he has good news for you.
Step 2. Call the HR Director, tell him you're hopping mad and you expect him to honor the relocation terms specified in the job offer. Wait 24 hours and spend the time tracking down the phone number of the relevant office at the state corporation commission for the state in which you were to have worked. Call and get the name of an actual case worker there. If the HR Director does not have good news, advise him that you have spoken with so-and-so at the state corporation commission and intend to file a fraud complaint.
Step 3. Beg your current boss to keep you on for a while. You'll still have to find a new job pronto but at least you'll keep the paychecks coming for a while.
Step 4. Call your would-be boss again. Advise him that you rescind your acceptance of the offer due to fraud on the part of the HR department.
Step 5. Spend $200 with a lawyer to see if you are entitled to any damages as a result of the company's fraud.
Step 6. Post a hate-page on the web, but stick to the straight facts so they can't sue you for libel. Step 6 is optional but it feels so good.
Note that if they refuse to honor the terms of the offer they made you, the job is lost. I know you don't want to give up on it but do yourself a favor: walk away. If they'll screw you this blatently at the front end, they'll screw you far worse down the line when you're already moved.
My laptop computer was purchased by Stanford, but my whole life is stored on it. [...] In short, my computer is my most private possession.
If your most private possession is owned by someone else, the police are not even close to your worst worry.
First, there are several new cases that suggest that agents can search computers at the border
No, that's not accurate. The cases state that agents may make a search a requirement for crossing the border with the computer. You have the right to refuse the search and ship the computer back the way you came.
Second, a recent case in the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has held that private employees have no reasonable expectation of privacy
This has been true since the country's inception. Nor is it difficult to understand: Its not the employee's office or the employee's computer. They're not even under contract to you the way an apartment or hotel room would be. These things belong to the employer and the employer has a right to grant a warrantless search of its posessions just as you have the right to permit the police to search your house if you so choose.
The employer also has a right to refuse a warrantless search, you as you would of your posessions. The difference is: why would the employer want to? If you're breaking the law at work, they want to know about it just as much as the police do.
That doesn't follow. There's no reason to think that they would colonize every system they explore. Barring FTL it would be too expensive to colonize systems that weren't close to their ideal.
Nor is it a valid supposition that we'd detect them in nearby systems if they were there. 1960's radio signals may have gone a long distance but today's cell phone signals would be hard to detect from as close as mars. As technology improves we emit progressively less waste energy and there's no reason to suppose that an alien culture wouldn't do the same. By the time they're advanced enough to make a colonization push, its reasonable to assume their waste energy would be effectively undetectable by our equipment. Barring incredible luck or a deliberate attempt to talk to us, there is no reason to suppose we'd find them.
Which leads to a better question than Fermi's paradox: If they're out there, why haven't they tried to make contact with us yet?
If you've ever played "Spaceward Ho" you'll recognize that the author has proposed an asinine strategy for exploring the galaxy. Indeed, if you try to play Spaceward Ho by that sort of probing you'll rapidly get your tail kicked.
A more rational approach is exponential: You colonize a solar system. Then from that system you launch probes at anything reachable. Then you colonize everything reachable that qualifies. Rinse and repeat.
The main disc of the galaxy is about 100,000 light years across. Assume 10% light speed for probe travel time, light speed for information return and 50 years for each new colony to build infrastructure to a point where they can launch probes. You'd have 90% of the galaxy explored in three or four million years -- almost 4 orders of magnitude less than this fellow's estimate.
Last I checked, you don't put your age on your resume. You can also trim your work experience list to the last 10 years and skip the dates for the education part -- most interviewers don't find that information relevant anyway.
Once you're actually in the interview, its won't be about your age -- it'll be about your fit for the job. If they want someone with median skills and you have median skills, you'll be fine. If they want someone with expert skills but only median experience (which they often do) then you won't get the job.
Are you sure you're in the right field? If you enjoy the work, then okay. If its just for the paycheck and you're not advancing in skill despite you're experience then you're in the wrong field. A late start in the right field would be better than turning in to a modern equivalent of the mainframe guy.
existing laws are designed to equalize service costs to rural customers
If the universal service fee applied to the delivery of any sort of telecommunications infrastructure service (instead of just POTS and POTS-related services), Verizon would fall all over itself to deliver FiOS to rural areas. Instead, the USF was shanghaied to pay for computers in rural schools.
So: congratualtions rural areas. You made us city folk pay for your kids' computers this past decade but you destroyed the USF in the pricess so now they get to sit and twiddle their thumbs while waiting for pr0n at 48kbbps.
This means they anticipate a Democratic-leaning FCC in the coming years. By creating structural seperation for the markets where they don't want to roll out FiOS, they insulate themselves from the impact of a ruling to the effect that they have to roll out service in an equitable manner.
If it can't sell commercially its not likely to be a success in its main aid mission either -- if it works that badly then it works that badly everywhere. If it can sell commercially then economy of scale will help lower the cost per unit for that main mission.
IMHO, a small but successful commercial run should be a minimum prerequisite for the major rollout.
Had a sysadmin candidate tell me that he was a family man and couldn't imagine a case where it would be appropriate for him to work past 5:00. Mind you, he's interviewing for a senior position maintaining production servers for a 24/7 operation. Not only will the guy we hire have to work some overtime, he'll be on call with the emergency phone one week out of three. The character of our business is very cyclic: part of the year we have a heavy workload that requires overtime and part of the year its nearly dead and we not only kick off early to make up for it but also get an extra two weeks of vacation around Christmas. This was clearly explained at the start of the interview.
We must have grilled him on this for 10 minutes just to make sure we weren't somehow misunderstanding his position on the matter. No, his five-o'clock rule was hard and fast.
He also mispronounced "Debian," offered only generalizations in response to technical questions, joked that according to our competitor we were "what's wrong with America" and mentioned on the way out of the building that he probably wouldn't have interviewed but he heard we payed well.
The only way he could have tanked the interview more thoroughly would be to show up in shorts. We thanked him for his time and then asked the headhunter why he sent us someone who was crazy. The headhunter was surprised, stating that the candidate reported doing well at the interview.
Actually, the multiple camera angle feature gets used a lot. You don't realize it because its under the hood: The camera angle gets changed with the spoken language so that the text in the title and credits matches.
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Two words: Hit Points. Every game has them and as kids we learned the concept from D&D.
Yeah, I had forgotten that it was possible to use "moves" as a noun.
An attacker doesn't care -why- there are a bunch of system calls. Its all machihe language at that point. That those calls happen presents an opportunity to inject malicious code.
If your basic claim about C/C++ is right then the consequence is that code written per "standard practice" in C++ is inherently harder to secure than code written in C.
Am I the only one who sees "N-Gage" and thinks "N Gauge" as in model railroading?
Its not forgotten -- its environmentally unsound.
Pressure turns a turbine which generates power. The more pressure available, the bigger the turbine can be and the better return on investment you get on the equipment.
In a hydroelectric plant, pressure is generated by dropping water. The further it drops, the heavier the weight of the water on top and the more pressure on the turbine. That means building a dam. Dams kill river life and destroy whole ecosystems.
Remember, the turbine doesn't want to turn: action meets opposite reaction. You can't just place it in a stream; the water will flow around it unless there is only a trivial amount of electric load.
Point: the hydroelectric station at Mammoth Spring Arkanas was abandoned because it wasn't commercially viable. Mammoth Spring is the tenth largest spring in the world, ejecting nearly 10 million gallons of water per hour from the ground. Its a constrained water flow already under tremendous pressure. And it's not price-competitive competitive with oil-steam plants.
Tidal systems face the same problem. Yes there is a tremendous amount of energy in the moving tide, but that's only because there is so much water. The water doesn't move very fast and the total change in height is not very much. You'd need an insanely diffuse system to capture commercially useful amounts of energy from that and you'd need to maintain that system in salt water and hurricanes. Worse, its cyclic hitting peaks and lulls with zero generation at the lulls. Power demand doesn't follow the moon's cycle. And again, you're constraining water flow which would kill much of the wildlife over the vast area in which this thing would have to be constructed.
Net Neutrality is not about the type of traffic, its about the source of the traffic. They can still refuse to let you run servers on your residential line (peer to peer makes your machine a server). And they can disrupt your attempts to violate the contract by throttling BitTorrent if they so desire.
So basically this guy's complaint is that he couldn't get Linux desktop applications to work perfectly with MS Exchange and MS Word, two of Microsoft's most proprietary applications? It worked, just not perfectly. So he gave up.
It strikes me that you could substitute MacOS or any other OS except Windows in the guy's story and all of his complaints would still be accurate.
I stand corrected. Hydrogen is in fact difficult to store in industrially useful quantities. There is some interesting research on catalytic storage but I promised technologies that are known to work today.
So, replace that component of the solution. Dump the steamer cars and replace them with plug-in hybrids that have enough battery power to get to and from work every day without starting the gasoline engine.
Then set taxes on long-haul trucking such that its more economical to load the freight containers on to trains and do only short-haul trucking at each end. Trucking only survives because of the subsidized cost of the roads (which is not even close to fully covered at the weigh stations) and the pollution cost of rail freight is much lower per pound of delivered goods. Also, once nuclear electricity gets into full swing it may be viable to consider electric rail instead of diesel rail.
Finally, set offer tax breaks for converting fossil-fuel motors in factories to electric.
Some other posts have commented about the waste storage problem that nuclear has. What problem? Radiation from low grade waste drops to safe levels within a few hundred years at which point it can be disposed of in a normal landfill.
High grade waste consumes relatively little volume and as the industrial chemest once said: there's no such thing as a waste product; there are only products which are wasted. Think plastics from the waste sludge from processing oil. Spent fuel pellets and the like wait only for some clever fellow to find a commercially useful application... A process which if history is a guide should dispose of about 50% of the waste every 100 years.
How to end US carbon emissions in 30 years without damaging the US economy:
Step 1: Build nuclear power plants. Update the designs with modern technology and give tax incentives for every new nuke plant built.
Reason: 50's and 60's technology nuke plants currently generate electricity for less money than any other technology, even coal. They cost less than a third of what oil and natural gas plants cost. With modern technology its likely we could improve safety while lowering the cost further. Speaking of safety: the worst US accident in 50 years of opererating nuclear energey plants was three mile island, in which no radiation leaked and no one got hurt.
Yes, worse accidents are possible. That means that over a long enough period of time they will happen. But weigh the rare environmental damage from a meltdown against the continuous destruction of the atmosphere by hyrdocarbon burning plants.
Step 2: With the cost of electricty driven cheap enough by nuke plants, shift to hydrogen-based internal combustion engines. With electrolysis done at off-peak hours to generate hydrogen from electricity, every home can be its own fueling station. Hydrogen burns with oxygen to make water, so go drive a steamer.
Reason: Imagine a city, maybe the city you live in, where the only air pollution is the occasional methane from peoples' farts! Nuclear makes its possible and these technologies are economical now, not just in some hypothetical future after more research.
A .xxx domain could be valuable to the porn industry. Right now they're on the hook when a minor accesses their site. They have to deal with thousands of varying locality laws on the subject. Sometimes their precautions are good enough, sometimes they're not. Sometimes porn purveyors find themselves arrested because little Johnnie found an access code on some message board and Mom caught him online.
.xxx domain and a little help from the US Congress, .xxx could be a legally safe place for Internet porn. It takes one simple law: "A web site accessible only via a .xxx URL is deemed to have taken reasonable precaution against access by minors and shall not be held liable for the same." And then set up http redirects on the old .com sites so that all access is funneled through the .xxx names.
Its not like porn sites want visits by children. Children don't pay.
With a
Presto, the jungle of locality laws is cut down.
Ha! That's one I didn't consider. You're right; at a 5% tax, it wouldn't round up to the first tenth-dollar until you spent a full dollar. I can almost imagine the dollar stores dropping their prices to 90 cents er 9 tenths. :)
Seems reasonable to me. A well written Wikipedia article already cites its sources. Just follow the trail and in the process learn whether that particular article is accurate.
A modest proposal:
1. Release a new half-dollar coin that is about the size and cost of a nickel. Make it maybe a little smaller with a rough edge so that coin mechs won't see it as a nickel. The existing 50-cent coin is too big, too expensive to produce and unsupported by automated coin mechs.
2. Release a new dime design that looks and works just like current dimes except its a "tenth dollar," not ten cents.
3. Cease production of the penny and nickle.
4. Phase out production of the quarter over the course of a decade. The new system calls for tenths of a dollar and the quarter is an odd quantity.
5. At the same time, increase the mass production of the dollar coin. With room for it in the cash register, it'll see increasing use.
The result: US currency moves to a system of dollars and tenths of a dollar, leaving the old system of cents behind. Nobody feels cheated by rounding because its no different than rounding to cents is now.
It also creates a precedent for phasing out the sub-dollar coins 50 years from now.
Step 1. Call your new boss and tell him: 1. The company is refusing to honor the terms of the offer, and 2. If the company does not honor the terms of the offer, your acceptance is rescinded. Wait 48 hours and find out if he has good news for you.
Step 2. Call the HR Director, tell him you're hopping mad and you expect him to honor the relocation terms specified in the job offer. Wait 24 hours and spend the time tracking down the phone number of the relevant office at the state corporation commission for the state in which you were to have worked. Call and get the name of an actual case worker there. If the HR Director does not have good news, advise him that you have spoken with so-and-so at the state corporation commission and intend to file a fraud complaint.
Step 3. Beg your current boss to keep you on for a while. You'll still have to find a new job pronto but at least you'll keep the paychecks coming for a while.
Step 4. Call your would-be boss again. Advise him that you rescind your acceptance of the offer due to fraud on the part of the HR department.
Step 5. Spend $200 with a lawyer to see if you are entitled to any damages as a result of the company's fraud.
Step 6. Post a hate-page on the web, but stick to the straight facts so they can't sue you for libel. Step 6 is optional but it feels so good.
Note that if they refuse to honor the terms of the offer they made you, the job is lost. I know you don't want to give up on it but do yourself a favor: walk away. If they'll screw you this blatently at the front end, they'll screw you far worse down the line when you're already moved.
not having to perform surgery on the nervous system has many advantages
I nominate this guy for the Understatement of the Year award.
My laptop computer was purchased by Stanford, but my whole life is stored on it. [...] In short, my computer is my most private possession.
If your most private possession is owned by someone else, the police are not even close to your worst worry.
First, there are several new cases that suggest that agents can search computers at the border
No, that's not accurate. The cases state that agents may make a search a requirement for crossing the border with the computer. You have the right to refuse the search and ship the computer back the way you came.
Second, a recent case in the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has held that private employees have no reasonable expectation of privacy
This has been true since the country's inception. Nor is it difficult to understand: Its not the employee's office or the employee's computer. They're not even under contract to you the way an apartment or hotel room would be. These things belong to the employer and the employer has a right to grant a warrantless search of its posessions just as you have the right to permit the police to search your house if you so choose.
The employer also has a right to refuse a warrantless search, you as you would of your posessions. The difference is: why would the employer want to? If you're breaking the law at work, they want to know about it just as much as the police do.
So we must assume we are the first.
That doesn't follow. There's no reason to think that they would colonize every system they explore. Barring FTL it would be too expensive to colonize systems that weren't close to their ideal.
Nor is it a valid supposition that we'd detect them in nearby systems if they were there. 1960's radio signals may have gone a long distance but today's cell phone signals would be hard to detect from as close as mars. As technology improves we emit progressively less waste energy and there's no reason to suppose that an alien culture wouldn't do the same. By the time they're advanced enough to make a colonization push, its reasonable to assume their waste energy would be effectively undetectable by our equipment. Barring incredible luck or a deliberate attempt to talk to us, there is no reason to suppose we'd find them.
Which leads to a better question than Fermi's paradox: If they're out there, why haven't they tried to make contact with us yet?
If you've ever played "Spaceward Ho" you'll recognize that the author has proposed an asinine strategy for exploring the galaxy. Indeed, if you try to play Spaceward Ho by that sort of probing you'll rapidly get your tail kicked.
A more rational approach is exponential: You colonize a solar system. Then from that system you launch probes at anything reachable. Then you colonize everything reachable that qualifies. Rinse and repeat.
The main disc of the galaxy is about 100,000 light years across. Assume 10% light speed for probe travel time, light speed for information return and 50 years for each new colony to build infrastructure to a point where they can launch probes. You'd have 90% of the galaxy explored in three or four million years -- almost 4 orders of magnitude less than this fellow's estimate.
Last I checked, you don't put your age on your resume. You can also trim your work experience list to the last 10 years and skip the dates for the education part -- most interviewers don't find that information relevant anyway.
Once you're actually in the interview, its won't be about your age -- it'll be about your fit for the job. If they want someone with median skills and you have median skills, you'll be fine. If they want someone with expert skills but only median experience (which they often do) then you won't get the job.
Are you sure you're in the right field? If you enjoy the work, then okay. If its just for the paycheck and you're not advancing in skill despite you're experience then you're in the wrong field. A late start in the right field would be better than turning in to a modern equivalent of the mainframe guy.
existing laws are designed to equalize service costs to rural customers
If the universal service fee applied to the delivery of any sort of telecommunications infrastructure service (instead of just POTS and POTS-related services), Verizon would fall all over itself to deliver FiOS to rural areas. Instead, the USF was shanghaied to pay for computers in rural schools.
So: congratualtions rural areas. You made us city folk pay for your kids' computers this past decade but you destroyed the USF in the pricess so now they get to sit and twiddle their thumbs while waiting for pr0n at 48kbbps.
This means they anticipate a Democratic-leaning FCC in the coming years. By creating structural seperation for the markets where they don't want to roll out FiOS, they insulate themselves from the impact of a ruling to the effect that they have to roll out service in an equitable manner.
If it can't sell commercially its not likely to be a success in its main aid mission either -- if it works that badly then it works that badly everywhere. If it can sell commercially then economy of scale will help lower the cost per unit for that main mission.
IMHO, a small but successful commercial run should be a minimum prerequisite for the major rollout.
Had a sysadmin candidate tell me that he was a family man and couldn't imagine a case where it would be appropriate for him to work past 5:00. Mind you, he's interviewing for a senior position maintaining production servers for a 24/7 operation. Not only will the guy we hire have to work some overtime, he'll be on call with the emergency phone one week out of three. The character of our business is very cyclic: part of the year we have a heavy workload that requires overtime and part of the year its nearly dead and we not only kick off early to make up for it but also get an extra two weeks of vacation around Christmas. This was clearly explained at the start of the interview.
We must have grilled him on this for 10 minutes just to make sure we weren't somehow misunderstanding his position on the matter. No, his five-o'clock rule was hard and fast.
He also mispronounced "Debian," offered only generalizations in response to technical questions, joked that according to our competitor we were "what's wrong with America" and mentioned on the way out of the building that he probably wouldn't have interviewed but he heard we payed well.
The only way he could have tanked the interview more thoroughly would be to show up in shorts. We thanked him for his time and then asked the headhunter why he sent us someone who was crazy. The headhunter was surprised, stating that the candidate reported doing well at the interview.
Like multiple camera angles on DVDs?
Actually, the multiple camera angle feature gets used a lot. You don't realize it because its under the hood: The camera angle gets changed with the spoken language so that the text in the title and credits matches.
Of course. I must be a liar because the alternative is that SORBS is comprised of extortionist vigilante scumbags and that just can't be.