Its standard pratice and you should always get the headhunter to tell you what company they are submitting you to and it is up to you to keep a list of where you have and havent been submitted to.
A headhunter cannot submit you to anyone without your approval (if they do they open themselvs up to lawsuits from you). Many of the less scruplous shops may try to withhold the name of the company in fear that you will go after the job yourself. However if you press them, they will tell you.
As a side note I work in the SOA and Web Application Server space as a developer. I know quite well how Oracle's app server works. When it initially came out it was merely a bunch of triggers and stored procedures that spit out HTML over a designated port.
Customers complained that it was a pain to extend as it did not support any major development platform (Java,.Net, etc). Oracle responded by overlaying an apache app server with a simple Java based framework that for the most part were just wrappers for said stored procedures. When I first saw the new setup I thought to my self that this may be an issue with the application layer tied so closely to the data layer (never build an application to an individual data store type) however I didn't really intestate it much. I don't think it would be much of a leap for someone with the time, knowledge and desire to think of that and then begin digging for vulnerabilities.
Who is to say he's the only person that has figured this problem out?
He's a smart guy, I'm sure, but there are plenty of smart people and not all of them are on the side of actually helping security. For all we know there could be someone else who figured this out and has been exploiting it perhaps in ways that its even undetectable that there has actually been data theft or changes.
If administrators know about the problem they are better able to guard against it. Either by reconfiguring permissions on the application and(or) database server so that transactions are more restricted, require additional levels of authentication or take the application down altogether. Albeit, in some instances, either work around is unacceptable however it's best that administrators know about the risk so that they may mitigate it.
Remember, for every smart guy on the white hat side hunting down and reporting security issues there are more smart guy(s) working both independently as well as for less than scrupulous organizations and groups that are also looking for the same weaknesses to exploit as soon as possible because once they become public knowledge those vulnerabilities quickly loose their value.
After being ahead for so many years in PC per unit sales, espically in the home, the market in the US is almost completly saturated. Just about everyone that wants a computer has one including many lower income families. I know alot of non-geeks that even have multiple systems.
Other than the privacay concerns what does the White House hope to prove? Even though it may be possible to identify a particular household (which is unlikely that google logs that much identifiable detail), all it will show is how many people on the internet both here and abrod are searching for porn. Theres no way in telling if those people are underage or not. So all you will see is a lot of people searching for porn. If I look at porn in the evening then later that day hang out with my little cousin will my looking at porn the night before going to somehow "taint" the boy? Maybe if I told him what I saw, yeah, but not otherwise. This sounds ridicilous and I find it dubious that porn searches are what the white house is really after.
After all, the current administraton has shown that it has no problems lying to the publics face about what its doing in order to break the constiution. Why would this be any different?
Get a blow job, get impeached. Break the consitution and invade civil liberties, get a raise in the polls.
actually its a quite candid interview and they even take pot shots at quite a few things they realize they could have done better in previous versions as well as covering quite a few of the major reasons for system instability and bloat of past code.
Most cable providers already have video on demand in many markets (including my own). While the technology is there and works really well, the play list of both the free and pay shows is seriously lacking. So far the best on demand content ive seen are the IMAX videos, discovery and history channel programs on demand. Everything else is really limited.
There are commercials in the On Demand feed but they are tacked to the beginning and end of each program.
Whats sad is, the way our country is, more than likely, they will get to bid and will win it. Then they keep thier 250,000 sq ft building and overcharge the city for the access points so they can "get back" the revenue they "lost" while the city was running things.
I certainly do, though it also depends on what you are talking about. The orignal movie obviously cetered around the blured lines between humanity and technolgy. The english translation made it so that some parts of the dialogue made this diffuclt to catch. This was also the main theme behind the Lain series though expressed in an entirerly different fashion.
The new movie GITS 2: Innocence has much better translation and does a better job at expressing the ideal behind GITS without putting you to sleep or making your brain want to explode.
The new TV Series Stand Alone Complex, is certianly an off shoot of the orignal theme. While they often center around the topic of that same blurred line they also delve into topics which are better suited to the short story format such as ethics in biotechnology, satire of current events and recent history as well as exploring the different aspects in which technology affects and changes the human condition.
First I think you are underestiamting the size of such a fleet. The roman navy at one time was the largest Navy in the world. In 36BC after Sextus was defeated by Octavian, a war where it was said there were thousands of ships engauged, the roman navy still touted over 700 warships.
Invading armies conquered by the 1000s. Assuming even a small fleet of 50 or so ships it would still be quite diffcult to catch anything on fire.
Throwing out the device as aming and pointing with the movment of the sun would clearly be too diffcult to take out such a large numeber of ships takes us back to the infantry with polished shields theroy.
A roman bow (depending on if it was infantry or calvery) range is between 130 and 300 meters. MITs best efforts with perfectly placed mirrors was 75feet.
If you could get an army of 10,000 men to move thier shields to the right place at the right time and be able to ignite a hull from at least more than 130 (416 feet) to possibly more than 300 (984 feet) meters away at minimum. Considering the loss in heat and intensienty over distance Im sure you begin to see the inherint problems with this. Further the range assumes you can get that many infantry men to stand in a close enoungh configuration so that the overall distance between the edges of the array isint so far apart that those on the edges of the array are generally useless.
Having the men in rows back to back would only work so far. Not to mention moving up and down poetentally miles of shoreline to cover the entire fleet.
I dont doubt that arcemedies was a genuis and in every tale (be it truth, lie or myth) there is always a bit of truth. It would not surprise me at all to know that Acramedies did build a device like this, and that it may have even been succfuly used on one ship at the right range under the right conditions. If that was the myth then it would have been proven or at least listed as plausible. But the myth states this device destroying an entire roman fleet. Its the scale of the myth that makes it busted.
What your forgetting is the format of the show. First they take a myth and test it as closely as possible to the excat theme of the myth.
In this case the myth was that Arcamedies had an army of soliders with highly polished shields. On command the soliders directed the sunlight at the advancing ships. And burned to dust an entire fleet. No not one boat, but an entire advancing fleet.
This myth was quickly busted from the inital tests showing the diffcutly of having multiple people align thier mirrors in one spot.
Next they tested the 2nd myth which was similar claiming that arcamedies had a device with mirrors mounted to it which he used to direct the sunlight. As both mythbusters and MIT discovered, while possible to ignite or create smoke on an ship you have serious issues with mirror alignment and the movement of the sun. While it may be probale that a device like this was in fact constructed and even probable that it was used and may have even torched or at least set to flame one ship (ignoring factors like wet hulls, and having ideal conditions). The chances of someone even today taking out an entire fleet of advancing ships which would likely be spread across miles of shore line is so unlikely that it borders on completly impossible if not impossible.
Thus the myth was busted.
Often times people tend to forget what the myth actually was by the time they are at the end of the show. This was a problem with the eariler shows and if you notice in later shows the format is changed up a bit where they re-hash and re-explain the myth as well as why it was busted. To prevent this very problem.
I notice an often missed point in many hybrid articles. Hybrids derive thier electric power from regenrtve braking and only make use of thier electric motors when crusing and driving around town. If you have a 40 min highway commute the 4cyl gas engine is going to be doing most of the work and you wont even see the improved gas mileage of a hybrid.
Its emissions will be the same as any other 4cyl car as well.
The mentioned incentives to allow hybrid cars to use the HOV lanes actually hurts since they see thier best fuel econ in stop and go traffic.
For real high economy, low enviromental impact look toward diesels for the time being. New diesels produce much lower emissions (sometimes better than thier unleaded counterparts) get excellent gas mileage (north of 40mpg for many models). Further by desgin diesel engines are multi-fuel so when the next replacement for dino fuel comes around, most likely your diesel engine can run it with little or no modifcation.
Yes a diesel engine costs more, it will also last longer and be more reliable than gas engines. Not to mention for the real geek you can make your own fuel for pennies a gallon.
actually unlike patents, trademarks must be defended. If someone infringes on your trademark and you do nothing about it you will loose the ability to enforce that trademark this is part of trademark law and has happend in the past (kleenex, band-aid, q-tip, many others) who never defended thier trademark brand and ended up loosing it.
Every no and then youll see big corp X go after little guy X because the little guy is using the same name. Everyone screams bully but the fact is, it that they must make the effort or they loose the right to the trademark alltogether.
That may be true for the most part, but not as a rule, I grew up poor in ghetto and white trash areas, we never had alot of money but our parents always made sure we were first (unlike some other parents in the neighborhood). They cared for us and fostered our education. My father put himself further into debt ($3000 is a lot for a family raising 5 kids) to get me my first real computer as opposed to some toy that jacked into a TV. Thanks to that I now make good money developing enterprise.net and java applications and my brother is on his way to being an Army officer. We both managed to keep GPAs above 3.0 thanks to mom and dad sticking with us and making sure thier kids came first.
I think even in a bad neighborhood it comes down to the parents cause my neighbors parents always let them do whatever they liked growing up because mom and dad were to intrested in squandaring what little they had. Not surprisningly last I heard the daughter was pregnat at 16 and the son was in rehab after his 3rd drug conviction.
Somtimes I wonder if its not the media itself that perpatuates this witch hunt. After all other forms of entertainment such as TV, movies and music all stand to gain from a games market that is relagated to toddlers and kids. Its the fact that games are so popular with the 18-34 crowd that is driving them crazy as we are spending our dollars and our attention to something other than thier passive drivel. Oddly enough as people freak out the biggest spenders on video games are people who are above the maximum age range anyway. Little kids playing GTA are actually in the miniority as I understand it. The parents smart enough to keep stuff with obiously bad titles out of thier kids hands of course arent going to complain. Only those who were dumb enough to think a game with a title like "Slash Killer Gore IV" is somehow wholesome for thier 12 year old to play.
For the most part its this miniority that is at the hands of all this anti-game stuff, unfortnatly they are also the most vocal and of course the media just loves to run away with any oppertuntiy they can for a story coupled with an oppertunity to bash an opposing medium that is eating into thier bottom line more every year.
doh! where are mod points when I need them. I see this all to often myself people want kids but are unwilling to accept the major lifestyle changes that go with it. They want kids like you should want a dog or something and it makes me sick. Having a child is a major commitment and if your not ready to change the stars, re-arrange your carrer and perhaps even give up on your faviorte pastime (at least till the kid is older) then you really shouldnt be having kids.
In the case of your application I would say it was a good call.
In the case of more content rich sites that may have varied types of articles as well as the desire to have a more intergrated look and feel the applicance is more neccassary.
There are also many intranets that have tons of content that is not available to the Net at large however the people who manage and use these networks would still like to be able to search the content they have on thier internal sites, file shares, etc.
Which brings a question, I see the applicance seems quite adept at crawling web pages but most search products provide a plugin type framework so that I can write my own data accessors and crawlers. Does the google appliance provide this capibility? Can I write a crawler for say my email system, my ERP data store, my customized 3rd party document managment system?
From TFA:
We created a file to which a link to every article, news post and blog post that have been published on the site would be dumped. That file is cached for a few hours as we update the index 3 times a week.
If your not careful when setting up your crawlers many search engines will index every link they find in a document. Including the headers and footers on the page that point to About, Legal, Copyright, Sponsors and Links.
Depending on how you have configured things it may also go ahead and read your banner ads and such as well. If you havent expliclty told your crawler to stay within someurl.com then it will go ahead and index the links that go to outside sites as well.
The solution that was presented in the article is a very common one when you want to simply index a subset of site content. Another common method for crawl systems that support scripting (like Plumtree's Ripfire or Verity) is to parse out the various urls you are looking for explicity as well as handle for things like pagination.
The former is perffered as it can easily be adapted to work with other search engines without re-writing custom scripts. I would not be surprised if anandtech now detects when GoogleBot is crawling thier site and presents GoogleBot as well as other search bots with the same page that thier applicance sees.
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Not to mention the numerous Nintendo DS games that have this feature
......quite mad
ding ding ding CHANGE POSITIONS!
then i must be.....
Its standard pratice and you should always get the headhunter to tell you what company they are submitting you to and it is up to you to keep a list of where you have and havent been submitted to.
A headhunter cannot submit you to anyone without your approval (if they do they open themselvs up to lawsuits from you). Many of the less scruplous shops may try to withhold the name of the company in fear that you will go after the job yourself. However if you press them, they will tell you.
Replying to myself, I know.
.Net, etc). Oracle responded by overlaying an apache app server with a simple Java based framework that for the most part were just wrappers for said stored procedures. When I first saw the new setup I thought to my self that this may be an issue with the application layer tied so closely to the data layer (never build an application to an individual data store type) however I didn't really intestate it much. I don't think it would be much of a leap for someone with the time, knowledge and desire to think of that and then begin digging for vulnerabilities.
As a side note I work in the SOA and Web Application Server space as a developer. I know quite well how Oracle's app server works. When it initially came out it was merely a bunch of triggers and stored procedures that spit out HTML over a designated port.
Customers complained that it was a pain to extend as it did not support any major development platform (Java,
Who is to say he's the only person that has figured this problem out?
He's a smart guy, I'm sure, but there are plenty of smart people and not all of them are on the side of actually helping security. For all we know there could be someone else who figured this out and has been exploiting it perhaps in ways that its even undetectable that there has actually been data theft or changes.
If administrators know about the problem they are better able to guard against it. Either by reconfiguring permissions on the application and(or) database server so that transactions are more restricted, require additional levels of authentication or take the application down altogether. Albeit, in some instances, either work around is unacceptable however it's best that administrators know about the risk so that they may mitigate it.
Remember, for every smart guy on the white hat side hunting down and reporting security issues there are more smart guy(s) working both independently as well as for less than scrupulous organizations and groups that are also looking for the same weaknesses to exploit as soon as possible because once they become public knowledge those vulnerabilities quickly loose their value.
you have to play a game? Last time I checked, no one is holding a gun to anyones head to play any game.
After being ahead for so many years in PC per unit sales, espically in the home, the market in the US is almost completly saturated. Just about everyone that wants a computer has one including many lower income families. I know alot of non-geeks that even have multiple systems.
Other than the privacay concerns what does the White House hope to prove? Even though it may be possible to identify a particular household (which is unlikely that google logs that much identifiable detail), all it will show is how many people on the internet both here and abrod are searching for porn. Theres no way in telling if those people are underage or not. So all you will see is a lot of people searching for porn. If I look at porn in the evening then later that day hang out with my little cousin will my looking at porn the night before going to somehow "taint" the boy? Maybe if I told him what I saw, yeah, but not otherwise. This sounds ridicilous and I find it dubious that porn searches are what the white house is really after.
After all, the current administraton has shown that it has no problems lying to the publics face about what its doing in order to break the constiution. Why would this be any different?
Get a blow job, get impeached.
Break the consitution and invade civil liberties, get a raise in the polls.
Im so confused.
actually its a quite candid interview and they even take pot shots at quite a few things they realize they could have done better in previous versions as well as covering quite a few of the major reasons for system instability and bloat of past code.
Most cable providers already have video on demand in many markets (including my own). While the technology is there and works really well, the play list of both the free and pay shows is seriously lacking. So far the best on demand content ive seen are the IMAX videos, discovery and history channel programs on demand. Everything else is really limited.
There are commercials in the On Demand feed but they are tacked to the beginning and end of each program.
Whats sad is, the way our country is, more than likely, they will get to bid and will win it. Then they keep thier 250,000 sq ft building and overcharge the city for the access points so they can "get back" the revenue they "lost" while the city was running things.
I certainly do, though it also depends on what you are talking about. The orignal movie obviously cetered around the blured lines between humanity and technolgy. The english translation made it so that some parts of the dialogue made this diffuclt to catch. This was also the main theme behind the Lain series though expressed in an entirerly different fashion.
The new movie GITS 2: Innocence has much better translation and does a better job at expressing the ideal behind GITS without putting you to sleep or making your brain want to explode.
The new TV Series Stand Alone Complex, is certianly an off shoot of the orignal theme. While they often center around the topic of that same blurred line they also delve into topics which are better suited to the short story format such as ethics in biotechnology, satire of current events and recent history as well as exploring the different aspects in which technology affects and changes the human condition.
First I think you are underestiamting the size of such a fleet. The roman navy at one time was the largest Navy in the world. In 36BC after Sextus was defeated by Octavian, a war where it was said there were thousands of ships engauged, the roman navy still touted over 700 warships.
Invading armies conquered by the 1000s. Assuming even a small fleet of 50 or so ships it would still be quite diffcult to catch anything on fire.
Throwing out the device as aming and pointing with the movment of the sun would clearly be too diffcult to take out such a large numeber of ships takes us back to the infantry with polished shields theroy.
A roman bow (depending on if it was infantry or calvery) range is between 130 and 300 meters. MITs best efforts with perfectly placed mirrors was 75feet.
If you could get an army of 10,000 men to move thier shields to the right place at the right time and be able to ignite a hull from at least more than 130 (416 feet) to possibly more than 300 (984 feet) meters away at minimum. Considering the loss in heat and intensienty over distance Im sure you begin to see the inherint problems with this. Further the range assumes you can get that many infantry men to stand in a close enoungh configuration so that the overall distance between the edges of the array isint so far apart that those on the edges of the array are generally useless.
Having the men in rows back to back would only work so far. Not to mention moving up and down poetentally miles of shoreline to cover the entire fleet.
I dont doubt that arcemedies was a genuis and in every tale (be it truth, lie or myth) there is always a bit of truth. It would not surprise me at all to know that Acramedies did build a device like this, and that it may have even been succfuly used on one ship at the right range under the right conditions. If that was the myth then it would have been proven or at least listed as plausible. But the myth states this device destroying an entire roman fleet. Its the scale of the myth that makes it busted.
What your forgetting is the format of the show. First they take a myth and test it as closely as possible to the excat theme of the myth.
In this case the myth was that Arcamedies had an army of soliders with highly polished shields. On command the soliders directed the sunlight at the advancing ships. And burned to dust an entire fleet. No not one boat, but an entire advancing fleet.
This myth was quickly busted from the inital tests showing the diffcutly of having multiple people align thier mirrors in one spot.
Next they tested the 2nd myth which was similar claiming that arcamedies had a device with mirrors mounted to it which he used to direct the sunlight. As both mythbusters and MIT discovered, while possible to ignite or create smoke on an ship you have serious issues with mirror alignment and the movement of the sun. While it may be probale that a device like this was in fact constructed and even probable that it was used and may have even torched or at least set to flame one ship (ignoring factors like wet hulls, and having ideal conditions). The chances of someone even today taking out an entire fleet of advancing ships which would likely be spread across miles of shore line is so unlikely that it borders on completly impossible if not impossible.
Thus the myth was busted.
Often times people tend to forget what the myth actually was by the time they are at the end of the show. This was a problem with the eariler shows and if you notice in later shows the format is changed up a bit where they re-hash and re-explain the myth as well as why it was busted. To prevent this very problem.
I notice an often missed point in many hybrid articles. Hybrids derive thier electric power from regenrtve braking and only make use of thier electric motors when crusing and driving around town. If you have a 40 min highway commute the 4cyl gas engine is going to be doing most of the work and you wont even see the improved gas mileage of a hybrid.
Its emissions will be the same as any other 4cyl car as well.
The mentioned incentives to allow hybrid cars to use the HOV lanes actually hurts since they see thier best fuel econ in stop and go traffic.
For real high economy, low enviromental impact look toward diesels for the time being. New diesels produce much lower emissions (sometimes better than thier unleaded counterparts) get excellent gas mileage (north of 40mpg for many models). Further by desgin diesel engines are multi-fuel so when the next replacement for dino fuel comes around, most likely your diesel engine can run it with little or no modifcation.
Yes a diesel engine costs more, it will also last longer and be more reliable than gas engines. Not to mention for the real geek you can make your own fuel for pennies a gallon.
actually unlike patents, trademarks must be defended. If someone infringes on your trademark and you do nothing about it you will loose the ability to enforce that trademark this is part of trademark law and has happend in the past (kleenex, band-aid, q-tip, many others) who never defended thier trademark brand and ended up loosing it.
Every no and then youll see big corp X go after little guy X because the little guy is using the same name. Everyone screams bully but the fact is, it that they must make the effort or they loose the right to the trademark alltogether.
That may be true for the most part, but not as a rule, I grew up poor in ghetto and white trash areas, we never had alot of money but our parents always made sure we were first (unlike some other parents in the neighborhood). They cared for us and fostered our education. My father put himself further into debt ($3000 is a lot for a family raising 5 kids) to get me my first real computer as opposed to some toy that jacked into a TV. Thanks to that I now make good money developing enterprise .net and java applications and my brother is on his way to being an Army officer. We both managed to keep GPAs above 3.0 thanks to mom and dad sticking with us and making sure thier kids came first.
I think even in a bad neighborhood it comes down to the parents cause my neighbors parents always let them do whatever they liked growing up because mom and dad were to intrested in squandaring what little they had. Not surprisningly last I heard the daughter was pregnat at 16 and the son was in rehab after his 3rd drug conviction.
Somtimes I wonder if its not the media itself that perpatuates this witch hunt. After all other forms of entertainment such as TV, movies and music all stand to gain from a games market that is relagated to toddlers and kids. Its the fact that games are so popular with the 18-34 crowd that is driving them crazy as we are spending our dollars and our attention to something other than thier passive drivel. Oddly enough as people freak out the biggest spenders on video games are people who are above the maximum age range anyway. Little kids playing GTA are actually in the miniority as I understand it. The parents smart enough to keep stuff with obiously bad titles out of thier kids hands of course arent going to complain. Only those who were dumb enough to think a game with a title like "Slash Killer Gore IV" is somehow wholesome for thier 12 year old to play.
For the most part its this miniority that is at the hands of all this anti-game stuff, unfortnatly they are also the most vocal and of course the media just loves to run away with any oppertuntiy they can for a story coupled with an oppertunity to bash an opposing medium that is eating into thier bottom line more every year.
doh! where are mod points when I need them. I see this all to often myself people want kids but are unwilling to accept the major lifestyle changes that go with it. They want kids like you should want a dog or something and it makes me sick. Having a child is a major commitment and if your not ready to change the stars, re-arrange your carrer and perhaps even give up on your faviorte pastime (at least till the kid is older) then you really shouldnt be having kids.
good idea and great if it fits your purposes.
In the case of your application I would say it was a good call.
In the case of more content rich sites that may have varied types of articles as well as the desire to have a more intergrated look and feel the applicance is more neccassary.
There are also many intranets that have tons of content that is not available to the Net at large however the people who manage and use these networks would still like to be able to search the content they have on thier internal sites, file shares, etc.
Which brings a question, I see the applicance seems quite adept at crawling web pages but most search products provide a plugin type framework so that I can write my own data accessors and crawlers. Does the google appliance provide this capibility? Can I write a crawler for say my email system, my ERP data store, my customized 3rd party document managment system?
How about metadata support?
From TFA: We created a file to which a link to every article, news post and blog post that have been published on the site would be dumped. That file is cached for a few hours as we update the index 3 times a week.
If your not careful when setting up your crawlers many search engines will index every link they find in a document. Including the headers and footers on the page that point to About, Legal, Copyright, Sponsors and Links.
Depending on how you have configured things it may also go ahead and read your banner ads and such as well. If you havent expliclty told your crawler to stay within someurl.com then it will go ahead and index the links that go to outside sites as well.
The solution that was presented in the article is a very common one when you want to simply index a subset of site content. Another common method for crawl systems that support scripting (like Plumtree's Ripfire or Verity) is to parse out the various urls you are looking for explicity as well as handle for things like pagination.
The former is perffered as it can easily be adapted to work with other search engines without re-writing custom scripts. I would not be surprised if anandtech now detects when GoogleBot is crawling thier site and presents GoogleBot as well as other search bots with the same page that thier applicance sees.
buuwahahahahahaha that was great, ill be up for another hour laughing at that
I would imagine this would be something of a dead-mans switch type system, a lack of signal would cause the system to turn off the TV.