Couple days ago I'm sitting in my car in a parking lot and nearly creamed by an SUV-driving phoner. Tricky enough on the street, but parking lots are mazes where unpredictable things are the norm - people walk out of nowhere, car suddenly backs out, car suddenly comes around blind corner, etc. You need to be on your toes there - besides, parking lot accidents are paid for by YOU -- fault, in my experience is never assigned on private property or public parking lots. Tough beans, even if you were not at fault. If you are at fault, you may find yourself taken to court for whatever your insurer is unwilling to cover.
Hire some slock lawyers to sit around and wait for the calls after you run some adverts:
"Have you been injured, maimed, cheated, lied to or nearly killed by a false healer? Call Dewey, Skrewum & Howe, we specialise in dismantling fake healthcare!"
Enough of them feel the pinch and maybe there will be fewer willing to go into the field.
Amateur scientists, amateur scientists! I can't even stand it anymore! These scientists don't want to use Crowdsourcing because then everything would change!
Scientists are unreliable; they're always changing their minds!
Shhh. Don't tell them it's a g-a-m-e. More fun this way. Also, if patents are involved and someone's profiting from the crowd's work, then it's helping Wall Street;-)
Call it Mutant Madness, try to find the most troublesome mutant genes, which are indifferent or compatible with other mutations and award skills, points,...
Mmmm. Sounds too much like my massive collection of Crazy Bones. Nemminds.
Not every system you have needs to be connected to the Internet. Why in the world was such valuable digital property on a system that had ANY connection to the Internet, thorough NAT or otherwise?
I'm sorry... it just doesn't make sense. It's like all the talk of the vulnerable power grid... just don't put those items on the open internet. Or better yet... don't network them at all and have a human attend it in a secure place.
Really couldn't agree more. There'd be so little to read on Slashdot if people had a lick of sense anymore regarding networking computers. If it needs to be on the local network, put it there. If it needs to get to the outside, put it behind a firewall. If it doesn't require any connectivity, then don't network it at all (damn Microsoft and their auto-updates, forget about them!)
Geez, it's like the current generation of IT people would, in charge of a bank, leave the doors and vault open all night, without so much as a guard.
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I completely agree with you. One thing you left out that I think people who have really not compared the experience on both types of devices is that e-ink really is a vastly better way to read lots of text. I can read much faster and more comfortably on my Kindle than on the iPad. The quality fonts etc is very good on both but there is something to be said for reading on a display that is not backlit. Especially if you try to read out doors.
This is really something to consider - lighting. When I read in bed a bit of backlight would be good, but when I'm sitting in my car (only place I can find peace and quiet) during lunch, no backlighting is required, but ability to read in full, partial sunlight or shade would be desireable.
As it is, I'm still hooked on dead trees editions because they require no battery and survive treatment I wouldn't subject any kind of e-reader to.
Scouts have Explorers. When I was in High School I was in a computer technology/electronics Explorer post. It was rad. First taste of computers, programming and stuff. Not a new idea.
That's a pretty wafer thin opinion piece. Sure, Stratfor seems like a mess, but I think the most telling aspect of this whole fiasco is that we actually believe an intelligence company could be so moronic. That says a lot about the public's perception of government intelligence, or lack thereof, if imbeciles like Stratfor are actually being paid to provide services.
What more effective cover for the deadly efficient than the guise of a disorganised clod?
Since LinkedIn is there, it has become much more tricky to lie on a resume because there is always the possibility that the recipient of the lies stumble upon the discrepancies.
So for the last year or so, whenever I have to send a resume I simply send the PDF that I can get from my LinkedIn profile. And if I have to lie (like hiding my VB6 experience or the fact that I used to work for Enron), I do it on LinkedIn.
I have a bogus name on my LinkedIn account. I've about half filled in my stuff, stopping when I felt it was too intrusive. I look once in a while, to see what garbage is on there for me to look at. LinkedIn == Myspace for "professionals"
A resume is typically viewed by an [personnel department screeners who know almost nothing at all about the work which would be done for the] employer so the incentive is to be honest about hobbies and lie about experience.
LinkedIn is typically viewed by friends and acquaintances so the incentive is to be honest about work and lie about hobbies.
Nothing terribly profound.
The goal of a resume is to get a foot in the door. After that, it's backing it up in interviews.
That's a pretty wafer thin opinion piece. Sure, Stratfor seems like a mess, but I think the most telling aspect of this whole fiasco is that we actually believe an intelligence company could be so moronic. That says a lot about the public's perception of government intelligence, or lack thereof, if imbeciles like Stratfor are actually being paid to provide services.
What more effective cover for the deadly efficient than the guise of a disorganised clod?
Every week I read about how some small business got burned by Paypal. However I have yet to encounter any business willing to drop Paypal and use the competition.
Petitions and strongly worded blog posts will not change Paypal's behavior. Only thing that matters is lost business.
How about eBay sellers getting burned? You state No Returns, No Refunds and somehow they decide you have to take the return because someone is a big whiner who cries all over the place (this after sniping the auction in the dying seconds - like they took any time at all to read the page.)
Also wondering how eBay continues to get away with the practice of only accepting payment through PayPal in a near monopoly, but that's another story.
Friends had their CC number copied some how and got home to find $3,500 in pr0n charges were suddenly on it. Guess it got passed around a bit or something. They got the charges dismissed, but it took them months.
The combination of nationalistic paranoia, cheap energy and a dead president are decades in the past. There is simply no compelling reason to put apes in tin cans for months at a time to go traipse around a dead, hostile rock floating in a radiation-blasted hell.
There is no real need, no perceived need, and absolutely nothing more than pictures can come of it. No one cares, we don't have the resources, and it will never happen. Ever.
Send more RC cars with cameras, get some pictures, the Space Nutter jizz will fly thick and fast.
>> Google's approach but I think it's good that they man up and pay for the bugs. I wish more companies would do that.
Most companies cannot afford it because the market dictates that a majority of users prefer to buy software with bugs if they can get the software for less. I think the rationale of most users is that the company will eventually patch the software so why pay more when eventually it will cost the same in the end (although we know how this turns out).
That's the remarkable way of modern rationalizing - A few bugs can't hurt. Dang. When I came up through school you wrote code which accounted for every exception - yes, it was time consuming, but you got exception messages which helped tidy your code, rather than, "Gee. I dunno why it did that. Probably won't do that again. Just one of those things", which I'm shocked to see management adopt as an attitude towards software.
It definitely makes it an easy decision for anyone not already in contact with organized crime, anyway. If you don't already know who to talk to, the odds that you can find someone to pay you money substantially topping $20-60k for an exploit without it being a cop or a fraudster are pretty low. You might find some random local spammer to pay you a few $k, but the people who would pay you $100k+ for an exploit aren't just hanging around everywhere.
Probably have their own team of employees, R & D department of sorts.
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More laws on the way - I can't wait
Already laws. Just get them enforced.
Couple days ago I'm sitting in my car in a parking lot and nearly creamed by an SUV-driving phoner. Tricky enough on the street, but parking lots are mazes where unpredictable things are the norm - people walk out of nowhere, car suddenly backs out, car suddenly comes around blind corner, etc. You need to be on your toes there - besides, parking lot accidents are paid for by YOU -- fault, in my experience is never assigned on private property or public parking lots. Tough beans, even if you were not at fault. If you are at fault, you may find yourself taken to court for whatever your insurer is unwilling to cover.
$$$
Fight it. Fight money with money.
Hire some slock lawyers to sit around and wait for the calls after you run some adverts:
"Have you been injured, maimed, cheated, lied to or nearly killed by a false healer? Call Dewey, Skrewum & Howe, we specialise in dismantling fake healthcare!"
Enough of them feel the pinch and maybe there will be fewer willing to go into the field.
Switch to Crowdsourcing to fix these problems!
Amateur scientists, amateur scientists! I can't even stand it anymore! These scientists don't want to use Crowdsourcing because then everything would change!
Scientists are unreliable; they're always changing their minds!
Shhh. Don't tell them it's a g-a-m-e. More fun this way. Also, if patents are involved and someone's profiting from the crowd's work, then it's helping Wall Street ;-)
Call it Mutant Madness, try to find the most troublesome mutant genes, which are indifferent or compatible with other mutations and award skills, points, ...
Mmmm. Sounds too much like my massive collection of Crazy Bones. Nemminds.
Not every system you have needs to be connected to the Internet. Why in the world was such valuable digital property on a system that had ANY connection to the Internet, thorough NAT or otherwise?
I'm sorry... it just doesn't make sense. It's like all the talk of the vulnerable power grid... just don't put those items on the open internet. Or better yet... don't network them at all and have a human attend it in a secure place.
Really couldn't agree more. There'd be so little to read on Slashdot if people had a lick of sense anymore regarding networking computers. If it needs to be on the local network, put it there. If it needs to get to the outside, put it behind a firewall. If it doesn't require any connectivity, then don't network it at all (damn Microsoft and their auto-updates, forget about them!)
Geez, it's like the current generation of IT people would, in charge of a bank, leave the doors and vault open all night, without so much as a guard.
I completely agree with you. One thing you left out that I think people who have really not compared the experience on both types of devices is that e-ink really is a vastly better way to read lots of text. I can read much faster and more comfortably on my Kindle than on the iPad. The quality fonts etc is very good on both but there is something to be said for reading on a display that is not backlit. Especially if you try to read out doors.
This is really something to consider - lighting. When I read in bed a bit of backlight would be good, but when I'm sitting in my car (only place I can find peace and quiet) during lunch, no backlighting is required, but ability to read in full, partial sunlight or shade would be desireable.
As it is, I'm still hooked on dead trees editions because they require no battery and survive treatment I wouldn't subject any kind of e-reader to.
researchers with opinions...
Ban pill-popping, doc-shopping curmudgeonly radio show hosts, too.
There is a coder Scouts, called Coder Dojo http://coderdojo.com/
Scouts have Explorers. When I was in High School I was in a computer technology/electronics Explorer post. It was rad. First taste of computers, programming and stuff. Not a new idea.
Why not Zoidberg?
I'm surprised it wasn't Putin.
the election board had the common sense to ask for this publicly and not cross their fingers and hope no one did this when they used it for real.
More gov't entities should open up to testing like this.
Sure, but if you run Diebold and favor one party over another (justsayin') you don't want some hacker finding your backdoor, do you?
In a shoe?
That's a pretty wafer thin opinion piece. Sure, Stratfor seems like a mess, but I think the most telling aspect of this whole fiasco is that we actually believe an intelligence company could be so moronic. That says a lot about the public's perception of government intelligence, or lack thereof, if imbeciles like Stratfor are actually being paid to provide services.
What more effective cover for the deadly efficient than the guise of a disorganised clod?
Pretty much what I was thinking...
Security through Obscurity
Or Security Through Obfuscation
Since LinkedIn is there, it has become much more tricky to lie on a resume because there is always the possibility that the recipient of the lies stumble upon the discrepancies.
So for the last year or so, whenever I have to send a resume I simply send the PDF that I can get from my LinkedIn profile. And if I have to lie (like hiding my VB6 experience or the fact that I used to work for Enron), I do it on LinkedIn.
I have a bogus name on my LinkedIn account. I've about half filled in my stuff, stopping when I felt it was too intrusive. I look once in a while, to see what garbage is on there for me to look at. LinkedIn == Myspace for "professionals"
A resume is typically viewed by an [personnel department screeners who know almost nothing at all about the work which would be done for the] employer so the incentive is to be honest about hobbies and lie about experience.
LinkedIn is typically viewed by friends and acquaintances so the incentive is to be honest about work and lie about hobbies.
Nothing terribly profound.
The goal of a resume is to get a foot in the door. After that, it's backing it up in interviews.
That's a pretty wafer thin opinion piece. Sure, Stratfor seems like a mess, but I think the most telling aspect of this whole fiasco is that we actually believe an intelligence company could be so moronic. That says a lot about the public's perception of government intelligence, or lack thereof, if imbeciles like Stratfor are actually being paid to provide services.
What more effective cover for the deadly efficient than the guise of a disorganised clod?
Welcome to the former land of the free and the brave - should we ever again be worthy of that title, we'll let you know.
We know everything about you and where you live
Break 'em up!
Oh, have we been here before?
I deleted my Paypal account six outrages ago.
Every week I read about how some small business got burned by Paypal. However I have yet to encounter any business willing to drop Paypal and use the competition.
Petitions and strongly worded blog posts will not change Paypal's behavior. Only thing that matters is lost business.
How about eBay sellers getting burned? You state No Returns, No Refunds and somehow they decide you have to take the return because someone is a big whiner who cries all over the place (this after sniping the auction in the dying seconds - like they took any time at all to read the page.)
Also wondering how eBay continues to get away with the practice of only accepting payment through PayPal in a near monopoly, but that's another story.
It would certainly be a difference.
Friends had their CC number copied some how and got home to find $3,500 in pr0n charges were suddenly on it. Guess it got passed around a bit or something. They got the charges dismissed, but it took them months.
in before joke about farts.
Bumper Sticker I've seen: SAVE GAS - FART IN A JAR
Ah, yes. Perhaps if we redesign landfills to harvest natural gas from then they'll be taken over by Exxon, BP, et al.
The combination of nationalistic paranoia, cheap energy and a dead president are decades in the past. There is simply no compelling reason to put apes in tin cans for months at a time to go traipse around a dead, hostile rock floating in a radiation-blasted hell.
There is no real need, no perceived need, and absolutely nothing more than pictures can come of it. No one cares, we don't have the resources, and it will never happen. Ever.
Send more RC cars with cameras, get some pictures, the Space Nutter jizz will fly thick and fast.
Soon as we find Oil on Mars, all bets are off.
Yes, Vista did have honest to goodness suckage, but most of the complaints centered around the fact that they actually fixed their security
Removing all of the wheels makes a car much more secure. It just makes for a shitty car.
Unless it's a flying car, which would be cool.
Unless the flying car had bugs in the code which made it able to fly, which would be uncool.
But reporting these bugs for money, so you could buy another flying car would be cool.
i see a vicious cycle developing
>> Google's approach but I think it's good that they man up and pay for the bugs. I wish more companies would do that.
Most companies cannot afford it because the market dictates that a majority of users prefer to buy software with bugs if they can get the software for less. I think the rationale of most users is that the company will eventually patch the software so why pay more when eventually it will cost the same in the end (although we know how this turns out).
That's the remarkable way of modern rationalizing - A few bugs can't hurt. Dang. When I came up through school you wrote code which accounted for every exception - yes, it was time consuming, but you got exception messages which helped tidy your code, rather than, "Gee. I dunno why it did that. Probably won't do that again. Just one of those things", which I'm shocked to see management adopt as an attitude towards software.
It definitely makes it an easy decision for anyone not already in contact with organized crime, anyway. If you don't already know who to talk to, the odds that you can find someone to pay you money substantially topping $20-60k for an exploit without it being a cop or a fraudster are pretty low. You might find some random local spammer to pay you a few $k, but the people who would pay you $100k+ for an exploit aren't just hanging around everywhere.
Probably have their own team of employees, R & D department of sorts.