I've had that happen to me once and I am a very infrequent traveler; so, it's easy to believe it happens a lot. Luckily, the other occupants were audibly "busy" and I didn't enter. The hotel was booked solid, drove me to a competing hotel and paid for the room... Normally, I wouldn't have thought it was funny, but it was a guaranteed late arrival (as in midnight) and I had to be up at 8am for a meeting.
I am very suspicious of a methodology that puts all of the values so close together and where assembly language even registers... That's like saying a huge portion of development work is being done on MS-DOS!
This seems more like a ranking of which languages people have the most problems with:-)
Aside from the fact that the photographer didn't upload it himself, that contract probably isn't valid because Twitter hasn't paid for the copyrighted material.
When I was making a music album a few years back, our lawyer told us that "work for hire" couldn't apply unless we paid the going wage to any other musicians who recorded with us (even if they were friends who would work for barter).
The twitter contract might hold up as long as they didn't make any money off of it, but as soon as they are accepting advertising revenue, they are effectively selling the content on the web site.
Now, that doesn't say that Twitter's lawyers couldn't use that agreement to make it prohibitively expensive to sue them over it...
Twitter's transfer of rights is probably not binding, because they didn't pay for it. IANAL, but I have done some recording. When we hired sidemen for our project, our lawyer told us we had to pay them (even if they were friends who would play for barter). If we weren't paying the going rate for X hours of recording time, the work for hire agreements would be tossed if any issues came up.
Somebody actually looks up the standard and gets it right. Who would do that on Slashdot:-)? 1001 can actually be factored (13 * 11 * 7) and the factors combined with other ratios to get a common tick rate that is about what they came up with (caveat, I did not check if they did the math right). I did this about 15 years ago and reported a bug to Apple that they should use that magic number in quicktime (or more precisely, document that was the appropriate magic number to use, because Quicktime already had the appropriate timekeeping to handle it).
Getting registered with the FEC is easy. It doesn't cost anything other than having access to a computer to do the filing with. Actually getting on the ballot is much more difficult (but does depend on the state). Getting people to vote for you is the really hard part.
The missing factor here is that they did nothing to factor in the exposure (how many hours the software has actually been used). That has a huge effect on the number of defects discovered. All this could really mean is that C++, C, and Objective-C, also PHP and Python are what most heavily used software written in.
That will work if every switch and router is the same and is running the same OS version (as was pointed out in the article you referenced). That's not likely to be true in a really large network.
Also, it's been my experience that script based solutions (especially ones that exercise a user interface) are fragile and require a lot of tinkering. And it's still going to be twice as much work (assuming that adding more configuration steps to the script only increases the probability of failure linearly, which might not be the case). Sure, it's better than doing each one manually, but it's still non-trivial.
It takes twice as much work to configure IPv6 (assuming you need to keep supporting IPv4). It's no big deal if you are just configuring a few switches, but if you talk about the number of routers a large ISP has, it becomes a lot of work. So, until they get close to running out of IPv4 addresses to assign to customers, don't hold your breath.
Twice now since the upgrade, my iPhone6 has gone into a mode where it got warmer and chewed up the available battery in about an hour or two (when I wasn't doing anything with it, except and occasional e-mail check). Usually, I can go two or three days without recharging if I have to. After a recharge, it worked fine.
This makes me think that there is a bug in the slow down mechanism which causes it to occasionally eat power instead of saving it...
As many others have posted, I wouldn't mention it until you are ready financially (you can never be sure they won't hustle you out the door). Then talk to your management about picking a date and transition plan. Several of my co-workers have retired and had plans where they shortened their work hours as the date approached and then set up a contracting arrangement for after the official retirement date. One of them has been gone for several years, now, and I still get e-mails from him when he gets a job to do (he moved after retirement and telecommutes).
They should send the report and the lawyer's address straight to the FBI. If it's accurate, the software is violating the Compture Fraud and Abuse Act. And Israel will honor the extradition...
The Chinese definitely have the tech to do that. My wife used the WiFi in a Chinese airport on the way home and related this story:
Everyone with a cell phone was rounded up before getting on the plane. She said most of them were not Chinese. Security held a device near each phone looking for something and then let everyone board the plane. She's not tech savvy, but this is what I suspect:
1. Somebody used the WiFi in the airport to access something they weren't supposed to with a non-Chinese phone. They Chinese security captured the MAC address. 2. Then they wen't looking to see if they had legal authority to arrest that person.
Another possibility is that they track the usage for all non-Chinese cell phones everywhere in the country and have flagged certain MAC addresses for special attention.
At any rate, I would definitely turn my phone of in the airport when leaving China...
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I've had that happen to me once and I am a very infrequent traveler; so, it's easy to believe it happens a lot. Luckily, the other occupants were audibly "busy" and I didn't enter. The hotel was booked solid, drove me to a competing hotel and paid for the room... Normally, I wouldn't have thought it was funny, but it was a guaranteed late arrival (as in midnight) and I had to be up at 8am for a meeting.
I am very suspicious of a methodology that puts all of the values so close together and where assembly language even registers... That's like saying a huge portion of development work is being done on MS-DOS!
This seems more like a ranking of which languages people have the most problems with :-)
I suspect that was also the reasoning behind Takata using poor quality steel in their airbags. Look how that worked out for them...
This sounds like retaliation for something we do not know the details of...
Shut down Facebook and Twitter 3 months before the election. Nothing important will be lost.
But, a really big wet newspaper might actually be able to stop a bullet :-)
Aside from the fact that the photographer didn't upload it himself, that contract probably isn't valid because Twitter hasn't paid for the copyrighted material.
When I was making a music album a few years back, our lawyer told us that "work for hire" couldn't apply unless we paid the going wage to any other musicians who recorded with us (even if they were friends who would work for barter).
The twitter contract might hold up as long as they didn't make any money off of it, but as soon as they are accepting advertising revenue, they are effectively selling the content on the web site.
Now, that doesn't say that Twitter's lawyers couldn't use that agreement to make it prohibitively expensive to sue them over it...
Twitter's transfer of rights is probably not binding, because they didn't pay for it. IANAL, but I have done some recording. When we hired sidemen for our project, our lawyer told us we had to pay them (even if they were friends who would play for barter). If we weren't paying the going rate for X hours of recording time, the work for hire agreements would be tossed if any issues came up.
That will be really fun...
You tell 'em Comrade!
Somebody actually looks up the standard and gets it right. Who would do that on Slashdot :-)? 1001 can actually be factored (13 * 11 * 7) and the factors combined with other ratios to get a common tick rate that is about what they came up with (caveat, I did not check if they did the math right). I did this about 15 years ago and reported a bug to Apple that they should use that magic number in quicktime (or more precisely, document that was the appropriate magic number to use, because Quicktime already had the appropriate timekeeping to handle it).
Getting registered with the FEC is easy. It doesn't cost anything other than having access to a computer to do the filing with. Actually getting on the ballot is much more difficult (but does depend on the state). Getting people to vote for you is the really hard part.
The missing factor here is that they did nothing to factor in the exposure (how many hours the software has actually been used). That has a huge effect on the number of defects discovered. All this could really mean is that C++, C, and Objective-C, also PHP and Python are what most heavily used software written in.
Go get 'em comrade. Putin will give you a bonus.
Or some disgruntled radar firmware programming is laughing his head off...
That will work if every switch and router is the same and is running the same OS version (as was pointed out in the article you referenced). That's not likely to be true in a really large network.
Also, it's been my experience that script based solutions (especially ones that exercise a user interface) are fragile and require a lot of tinkering. And it's still going to be twice as much work (assuming that adding more configuration steps to the script only increases the probability of failure linearly, which might not be the case). Sure, it's better than doing each one manually, but it's still non-trivial.
It takes twice as much work to configure IPv6 (assuming you need to keep supporting IPv4). It's no big deal if you are just configuring a few switches, but if you talk about the number of routers a large ISP has, it becomes a lot of work. So, until they get close to running out of IPv4 addresses to assign to customers, don't hold your breath.
Twice now since the upgrade, my iPhone6 has gone into a mode where it got warmer and chewed up the available battery in about an hour or two (when I wasn't doing anything with it, except and occasional e-mail check). Usually, I can go two or three days without recharging if I have to. After a recharge, it worked fine.
This makes me think that there is a bug in the slow down mechanism which causes it to occasionally eat power instead of saving it...
As many others have posted, I wouldn't mention it until you are ready financially (you can never be sure they won't hustle you out the door). Then talk to your management about picking a date and transition plan. Several of my co-workers have retired and had plans where they shortened their work hours as the date approached and then set up a contracting arrangement for after the official retirement date. One of them has been gone for several years, now, and I still get e-mails from him when he gets a job to do (he moved after retirement and telecommutes).
They should send the report and the lawyer's address straight to the FBI. If it's accurate, the software is violating the Compture Fraud and Abuse Act. And Israel will honor the extradition...
One has to laugh at all these self driving car companies that do their development in places were it doesn't snow and often doesn't even rain a lot.
Self driving car startups should be in places like Detroit and Buffalo...
"Cockpit Override"
"Airplane Crash Scenarios"
"747 Maintenance Network"
"Airbus Control"
How much data usage did all those people put on your phone bill :-)
But what if the guy didn't change the name himself. It could have been one of his friends pranking him.
The Chinese definitely have the tech to do that. My wife used the WiFi in a Chinese airport on the way home and related this story:
Everyone with a cell phone was rounded up before getting on the plane. She said most of them were not Chinese. Security held a device near each phone looking for something and then let everyone board the plane. She's not tech savvy, but this is what I suspect:
1. Somebody used the WiFi in the airport to access something they weren't supposed to with a non-Chinese phone. They Chinese security captured the MAC address.
2. Then they wen't looking to see if they had legal authority to arrest that person.
Another possibility is that they track the usage for all non-Chinese cell phones everywhere in the country and have flagged certain MAC addresses for special attention.
At any rate, I would definitely turn my phone of in the airport when leaving China...