Good thing they didn't get as geo-specific as just my company or they'd find the angriest hole of bitterness and hatred on the internet twitternet lol.
Apple devs wouldn't know security if it bit them in the iPhone so this is less than surprising. Then you use a browser exploit that targets macs, which is (debatably) easier to make and tada. I'm going to take a wild guess that Facebook's devs aren't too bright either, based solely on their coding and design work aka the Facebook website.
Sorry, I actually called dibs first. That stands up in court just as well so good luck suing me. By the way, US law sort of works exactly like that where you flag it, it's yours, but the world/UN rules differ quite a bit. Well, down on Earth at least. The unofficial policy at the moment is you grab it, it's yours up in space.
Aging programmers do not keep up, they write stuff in C and VB6, and they refuse to get retrained because it's too hard. As far as I'm concerned, they're wasting the company's time and money to get paid more than me. I can program twice as quickly and at superior quality with modern standards but slightly less wise overall design but still acceptable and superior to average software. If I had a dollar for every time a programmer over 40 couldn't properly define object oriented to me, I could retire. I think I had a grasp of that in week 2 of semester 1 of college. The older programmers are just lazy! That's all there is to it.
But foreigners can get the fuck out and that is a completely different story. They have no business taking my job at a lower wage in my own country. My family paid for K-12 and I paid for extensive college training and now someone else who fast tracked it quick and cheap in another country skips in and demolishes it? Maybe I just should have dropped out of school if I can't compete by going "by the books" because companies ship in some asshole from another country to undercut me. At least their code and UI design is universally crap compared to mine since english is rarely their first language.
Don't put the systems that control the power grid on the internet! Or if you do, make them read-only. If they have to be networked, ever heard of a VLAN? Hell no they haven't because they hire outsourced 3rd party contractors to write this stuff and they don't have to officially deal with it after the check clears. They don't necessarily have to sit there and manage it and deal with the software and control systems on a daily basis. And they certainly aren't the best or brightest programmers, they're just the fastest and laziest. If they were, they'd be working at a better job than a contractor or public company. All we need are people who have the first clue about security to design the control systems for the power grid and we're set.
How about we just go with the old, established brick and mortar casino game full of danger, excitement, thrilling drama....BINGO!:-D Pretty much every casino has Bingo. The one near me actually has a poker room and Bingo but still, World Series of Bingo sounds pretty tempting. From what I hear, there are a lot more fist fights and chair throwing in Bingo than Texas Hold Em.
First of all, I saw a screenshot of a warning about a disclosure for a Windows 8 beta. So, how exactly is that solid proof of a Windows Blue or 9? Anyway, as if Apple had more reasons to not be used in a business environment, their insistence on constantly changing the OS every year with a big release and then breaking half the legacy apps is the real killer. There are businesses (mine for example) that are just finishing or even starting testing Windows 7 to replace XP. Now we have to test 8 and then 9 and then 10 all in one year each? I think we'll have to hire someone to do just that full time and then never actually deploy a new OS because it will have changed to the next one by then. I thought they'd pull a post-vista and come down off their crazy train and take 3 years to build something that wasn't a useless piece of shit. But nope, they're opting to piss people off twice as badly but on a yearly basis and stick with that awful interface. There goes the Microsoft "every other" cycle.
I make $100 profit on every single PC. What are you, stupid or something? I can finish an entire install from parts to done in 2 hours tops. Have you considered you're just not good at your job if you're slower or stupider or get your parts from a more expensive vendor? I buy and sit on any PC parts discounted by my major vendors. On average, it drives down the cost of the PC by $50. My software logs what I paid for parts so I know the minimum a vendor will eventually mark it at and when it's marked up. For example: if I pay more than $87-90 for a Samsung 840 120GB SSD, I'm wasting money because that's the official minimum for any vendor after the discount deals they do behind the scenes this month with Samsung. Even paying over $17 for an ASUS DVD-RW drive on newegg (the 3,300 reviews one) is a mistake. None of my Windows OEM licenses cost more than $80 because they're on sale once a month at newegg. Hey look, we're almost at $50.
MACS DO NOT BELONG IN THE WORKPLACE! Besides being incompatible with everything in the entire universe, they are a targeted attack waiting to happen. They're like SCADA controllers if SCADA controllers had a following of obsessed fan who know very little about technology and never listen to reason about their products.
At my repair shop, I have a $1 contact-break alarm system on my back door. As soon as it goes off, 100 dB alarm in your face and it's rather difficult to disable without knowing how it works. Not many people would say "well, that alarm is blasting but let's keep robbing it." They just run.
I can't believe modern people are still stupider than medieval people. This is pure castle theory. You don't build tons and tons and tons of defense like walls and locks and moats and then just leave it. Persistent threats will find a way in. What did rich people and kings do? Set traps. Make it look somewhat secure but then oops, you stepped on the wrong rock. Now there's spikes in your face. Or you pick a lock on the treasure chest and it released poison gas because the treasure chest is actually backwards and the real lock is on the back.
Bars on the windows are nothing. They'll just bring a crow bar. The "low hanging fruit" theory about which stores get robbed do not apply here. But add traps aka window break alarms and make sure the "Protected by alarms" and red blinking lights are showing and a thief would have no idea what trap they're about to fall into and would stay away.
this is the lead fragments of a super massive sized meteor heading our way. You see when it passed through the asteroid belt it pushed a few rocks out in front of it.
The probability of the angle matching perfectly at that distance is worse than me making a complex pool shot with a full-sized lance on horseback. It would have to hit dead center with unbelievable accuracy for both to travel in the same straight line.
I've built around 150 PCs at my shop thus far and had 1 part failure ever in around 5 years. My computers are absolutely perfect and a 120GB SSD + Pentium G860 + 4GB of RAM system runs around $475, data transfer included. Good luck competing with that. I think people like me are in every town and we're putting HP and Dell out of business. Oh, and if you didn't hear, Best Buy is closing all retail locations over the next 5 years. Yay, we crushed them. Inferior products and services fail in free markets.
Holy God in Heaven, that's a lithium POLYMER battery inside and a 250ma max solar panel AND multi-tips for like $5 more than my Scosche?! Guess who's buying one and bringing it camping! Unlike some newegg deals, they aren't kidding about that original price. Bare minimum, those types of devices run $80.
Oh, that's the way to gain confidence. "We just released version 10 and it's going to turn this company around...but, I'm jumping the hell off this ship! Good luck, everyone!"
Given all that evidence, it's obvious the reporter did in fact want the car to "break down." I guess he didn't know that every single thing the car did was being tracked. There's no explanation for what he did other than purposely attempting to make the car fail. Lying about turning down the heat to prevent running out of electricity when in fact he turned it up to make it run out faster is just further evidence that it was all premeditated.
I have a 1500mAh battery pack module with a full-sized USB port and a power-pin-only 5-pin USB micro cable, 4" long, in my jacket pocket at all times. So it's a reserve battery for any device and it'll charge 1 phone or 1/4 of 1 tablet or some portion of a GPS unit but so what? On the other side, it has a solar panel and a charging indicator, that's what! Take that, pocket full of unstable, flammable gas. So solar panel vs butane....yeah, I'll stick with my solution, thanks. In direct sunlight, it doesn't take real long to recharge the entire battery pack either. Yeah, I'm out of luck at night but considering I can get 21 days of idle runtime on my Samsung R640 on one charge from this reserve battery, I think I can find some sunlight after depleting it.
I believe I heard this Nectar device exceeds $300, or so they stated at CES. Mine cost $17 and it's from Scosche, which makes decent products.
Anyone read the accompanying article titled: "How Recruiters Read Resumes In 10 Seconds or Less?"
Well, this definitely explains how completely unqualified, unfriendly, terrible workers that everyone in the office hates get hired in the first place. I always wondered that. If this jackass narrows it down to 3 people that he deems qualified from just "on paper" type stats, then they all turn out to be arrogant and unfriendly people that can't get along with others, he just failed but he's going to send one to the client anyway because they're "the most qualified" and "properly educated" IN THEORY. In practice, they're an asshole. But then the company gets all impressed by the perfect on-paper match and hires them anyway. Then all the coworkers get to suffer until that asshole gets fired.
I'm the absolute best IT worker any company could ever ask for. I'm the head IT manager at my company at the age of 25. I know everything from graphics design to AV equipment to server maintenance to programming to web design to malware removal and security and have years of professional experience in each field...but I have 2 associates degrees. Oops, looks like that jackass threw my resume out. Oh well. Due to my age, I have the latest education in the most modern technologies and ways to operating and IT system. He didn't think of that though. He wants some 45 year old because 15 years of experience looks prettier on paper. I guess his client gets some less quality options because his preconceived notion of what a good employee looks like ruined it. But really, that's his job as a recruiter. He wants to trick the company into thinking that they should ignore the person and just hire the resume because it's God's gift to that position and matches it perfectly. This is why I quit my old tech contractor. I was the best programmer and they knew damn well that was true but they didn't think my 2-year degree would impress anyone. I even took their worldwide staff programming assessment and beat 81% of their programmers. But they're recruiters so they don't deal in reality, they deal in bullshit and lies to make a quick buck. People like that should be shot.
The next Xbox should be 100% touchscreen! Demand everyone buy a brand new TV and then stand 2 feet from it. Then touch it without tipping it over. Just think how well it would do to combine kids' affinity for touching random things with their love of gaming! It'll be a hit!
I didn't know asteroids were self-propelled so that if you catch them, you can steal all their propellant, lol. Anyway, AT CURRENT MARKET VALUE, it's worth that much. Guess what happened to the price of gold when some guy found several kilograms of gold coins out in a field in the UK? The price dropped. Guess what happens when you throw 100 pounds of platinum (or whatever) on the market from an asteroid? The price goes down in a hurry.
I went to college and was going to specialize in VB.NET and RPG or COBOL and during the first RPG class, I changed focus to web programming. That emulated IDE with zero assistance was so ancient and backwards and slow and mistake-inducing, it was unuseable. The unfortunate line splitting was unreadable. I chose midrange and mainframe programming because of the money and guaranteed job but I dropped it pretty darn quickly because it wasn't worth any amount of money to put up with that. I also was the best programmer my advanced VB programming teacher had ever seen. I got a 105% on the final project. I started programming because I was good at it, not because of the money or any other reason. So if someone like me isn't willing to deal with COBOL and RPG, good luck finding someone else. Companies just need to dump it.
I'm now head IT manager at a medium-sized company and we have to dump our current CRM because the company behind it got aqcuired by another so there's no support or updates for server 2012 or IE9 and we bought it in 2009. Anyone using COBOL has at least 10+ years of not quite understanding that exact point.
The #1 things I focused on in college programming classes were AI helpfulness on input validation and accurate progress bars. I basically mixed a hybrid of retroactive total time vs data processed mixed with anything that would throw that off while benchmarking like stops and gaps in data while looking forward to the total count and removing any initial startup time from the equation as well. It's actually REALLY, REALLY accurate to do it that way and took about 3 minutes and maybe 5 lines of code.
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Good thing they didn't get as geo-specific as just my company or they'd find the angriest hole of bitterness and hatred on the internet twitternet lol.
Apple devs wouldn't know security if it bit them in the iPhone so this is less than surprising. Then you use a browser exploit that targets macs, which is (debatably) easier to make and tada. I'm going to take a wild guess that Facebook's devs aren't too bright either, based solely on their coding and design work aka the Facebook website.
Sorry, I actually called dibs first. That stands up in court just as well so good luck suing me. By the way, US law sort of works exactly like that where you flag it, it's yours, but the world/UN rules differ quite a bit. Well, down on Earth at least. The unofficial policy at the moment is you grab it, it's yours up in space.
Aging programmers do not keep up, they write stuff in C and VB6, and they refuse to get retrained because it's too hard. As far as I'm concerned, they're wasting the company's time and money to get paid more than me. I can program twice as quickly and at superior quality with modern standards but slightly less wise overall design but still acceptable and superior to average software. If I had a dollar for every time a programmer over 40 couldn't properly define object oriented to me, I could retire. I think I had a grasp of that in week 2 of semester 1 of college. The older programmers are just lazy! That's all there is to it.
But foreigners can get the fuck out and that is a completely different story. They have no business taking my job at a lower wage in my own country. My family paid for K-12 and I paid for extensive college training and now someone else who fast tracked it quick and cheap in another country skips in and demolishes it? Maybe I just should have dropped out of school if I can't compete by going "by the books" because companies ship in some asshole from another country to undercut me. At least their code and UI design is universally crap compared to mine since english is rarely their first language.
Don't put the systems that control the power grid on the internet! Or if you do, make them read-only. If they have to be networked, ever heard of a VLAN? Hell no they haven't because they hire outsourced 3rd party contractors to write this stuff and they don't have to officially deal with it after the check clears. They don't necessarily have to sit there and manage it and deal with the software and control systems on a daily basis. And they certainly aren't the best or brightest programmers, they're just the fastest and laziest. If they were, they'd be working at a better job than a contractor or public company. All we need are people who have the first clue about security to design the control systems for the power grid and we're set.
How about we just go with the old, established brick and mortar casino game full of danger, excitement, thrilling drama....BINGO! :-D Pretty much every casino has Bingo. The one near me actually has a poker room and Bingo but still, World Series of Bingo sounds pretty tempting. From what I hear, there are a lot more fist fights and chair throwing in Bingo than Texas Hold Em.
First of all, I saw a screenshot of a warning about a disclosure for a Windows 8 beta. So, how exactly is that solid proof of a Windows Blue or 9? Anyway, as if Apple had more reasons to not be used in a business environment, their insistence on constantly changing the OS every year with a big release and then breaking half the legacy apps is the real killer. There are businesses (mine for example) that are just finishing or even starting testing Windows 7 to replace XP. Now we have to test 8 and then 9 and then 10 all in one year each? I think we'll have to hire someone to do just that full time and then never actually deploy a new OS because it will have changed to the next one by then. I thought they'd pull a post-vista and come down off their crazy train and take 3 years to build something that wasn't a useless piece of shit. But nope, they're opting to piss people off twice as badly but on a yearly basis and stick with that awful interface. There goes the Microsoft "every other" cycle.
If it has a "start" button and some semblance of a menu, it already wins
I make $100 profit on every single PC. What are you, stupid or something? I can finish an entire install from parts to done in 2 hours tops. Have you considered you're just not good at your job if you're slower or stupider or get your parts from a more expensive vendor? I buy and sit on any PC parts discounted by my major vendors. On average, it drives down the cost of the PC by $50. My software logs what I paid for parts so I know the minimum a vendor will eventually mark it at and when it's marked up. For example: if I pay more than $87-90 for a Samsung 840 120GB SSD, I'm wasting money because that's the official minimum for any vendor after the discount deals they do behind the scenes this month with Samsung. Even paying over $17 for an ASUS DVD-RW drive on newegg (the 3,300 reviews one) is a mistake. None of my Windows OEM licenses cost more than $80 because they're on sale once a month at newegg. Hey look, we're almost at $50.
MACS DO NOT BELONG IN THE WORKPLACE! Besides being incompatible with everything in the entire universe, they are a targeted attack waiting to happen. They're like SCADA controllers if SCADA controllers had a following of obsessed fan who know very little about technology and never listen to reason about their products.
At my repair shop, I have a $1 contact-break alarm system on my back door. As soon as it goes off, 100 dB alarm in your face and it's rather difficult to disable without knowing how it works. Not many people would say "well, that alarm is blasting but let's keep robbing it." They just run.
I can't believe modern people are still stupider than medieval people. This is pure castle theory. You don't build tons and tons and tons of defense like walls and locks and moats and then just leave it. Persistent threats will find a way in. What did rich people and kings do? Set traps. Make it look somewhat secure but then oops, you stepped on the wrong rock. Now there's spikes in your face. Or you pick a lock on the treasure chest and it released poison gas because the treasure chest is actually backwards and the real lock is on the back.
Bars on the windows are nothing. They'll just bring a crow bar. The "low hanging fruit" theory about which stores get robbed do not apply here. But add traps aka window break alarms and make sure the "Protected by alarms" and red blinking lights are showing and a thief would have no idea what trap they're about to fall into and would stay away.
this is the lead fragments of a super massive sized meteor heading our way. You see when it passed through the asteroid belt it pushed a few rocks out in front of it.
The probability of the angle matching perfectly at that distance is worse than me making a complex pool shot with a full-sized lance on horseback. It would have to hit dead center with unbelievable accuracy for both to travel in the same straight line.
Before you make stupid remarks have you heard the word "search"?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_miRPJgwDM
Yes, we've all heard of the word search. They're usually in the paper and on the placemats in family restaurants.
I've built around 150 PCs at my shop thus far and had 1 part failure ever in around 5 years. My computers are absolutely perfect and a 120GB SSD + Pentium G860 + 4GB of RAM system runs around $475, data transfer included. Good luck competing with that. I think people like me are in every town and we're putting HP and Dell out of business. Oh, and if you didn't hear, Best Buy is closing all retail locations over the next 5 years. Yay, we crushed them. Inferior products and services fail in free markets.
The asteroid clearly read all the "we want to catch and mine an asteroid" stories on slashdot lately and was all like "Ok, I'm coming down"
Holy God in Heaven, that's a lithium POLYMER battery inside and a 250ma max solar panel AND multi-tips for like $5 more than my Scosche?! Guess who's buying one and bringing it camping! Unlike some newegg deals, they aren't kidding about that original price. Bare minimum, those types of devices run $80.
Oh, that's the way to gain confidence. "We just released version 10 and it's going to turn this company around...but, I'm jumping the hell off this ship! Good luck, everyone!"
Given all that evidence, it's obvious the reporter did in fact want the car to "break down." I guess he didn't know that every single thing the car did was being tracked. There's no explanation for what he did other than purposely attempting to make the car fail. Lying about turning down the heat to prevent running out of electricity when in fact he turned it up to make it run out faster is just further evidence that it was all premeditated.
I have a 1500mAh battery pack module with a full-sized USB port and a power-pin-only 5-pin USB micro cable, 4" long, in my jacket pocket at all times. So it's a reserve battery for any device and it'll charge 1 phone or 1/4 of 1 tablet or some portion of a GPS unit but so what? On the other side, it has a solar panel and a charging indicator, that's what! Take that, pocket full of unstable, flammable gas. So solar panel vs butane....yeah, I'll stick with my solution, thanks. In direct sunlight, it doesn't take real long to recharge the entire battery pack either. Yeah, I'm out of luck at night but considering I can get 21 days of idle runtime on my Samsung R640 on one charge from this reserve battery, I think I can find some sunlight after depleting it.
I believe I heard this Nectar device exceeds $300, or so they stated at CES. Mine cost $17 and it's from Scosche, which makes decent products.
Anyone read the accompanying article titled: "How Recruiters Read Resumes In 10 Seconds or Less?"
Well, this definitely explains how completely unqualified, unfriendly, terrible workers that everyone in the office hates get hired in the first place. I always wondered that. If this jackass narrows it down to 3 people that he deems qualified from just "on paper" type stats, then they all turn out to be arrogant and unfriendly people that can't get along with others, he just failed but he's going to send one to the client anyway because they're "the most qualified" and "properly educated" IN THEORY. In practice, they're an asshole. But then the company gets all impressed by the perfect on-paper match and hires them anyway. Then all the coworkers get to suffer until that asshole gets fired.
I'm the absolute best IT worker any company could ever ask for. I'm the head IT manager at my company at the age of 25. I know everything from graphics design to AV equipment to server maintenance to programming to web design to malware removal and security and have years of professional experience in each field...but I have 2 associates degrees. Oops, looks like that jackass threw my resume out. Oh well. Due to my age, I have the latest education in the most modern technologies and ways to operating and IT system. He didn't think of that though. He wants some 45 year old because 15 years of experience looks prettier on paper. I guess his client gets some less quality options because his preconceived notion of what a good employee looks like ruined it. But really, that's his job as a recruiter. He wants to trick the company into thinking that they should ignore the person and just hire the resume because it's God's gift to that position and matches it perfectly. This is why I quit my old tech contractor. I was the best programmer and they knew damn well that was true but they didn't think my 2-year degree would impress anyone. I even took their worldwide staff programming assessment and beat 81% of their programmers. But they're recruiters so they don't deal in reality, they deal in bullshit and lies to make a quick buck. People like that should be shot.
Well, that's not exactly true. It costs money to rerwite all their software upside down.
The next Xbox should be 100% touchscreen! Demand everyone buy a brand new TV and then stand 2 feet from it. Then touch it without tipping it over. Just think how well it would do to combine kids' affinity for touching random things with their love of gaming! It'll be a hit!
I didn't know asteroids were self-propelled so that if you catch them, you can steal all their propellant, lol. Anyway, AT CURRENT MARKET VALUE, it's worth that much. Guess what happened to the price of gold when some guy found several kilograms of gold coins out in a field in the UK? The price dropped. Guess what happens when you throw 100 pounds of platinum (or whatever) on the market from an asteroid? The price goes down in a hurry.
I went to college and was going to specialize in VB.NET and RPG or COBOL and during the first RPG class, I changed focus to web programming. That emulated IDE with zero assistance was so ancient and backwards and slow and mistake-inducing, it was unuseable. The unfortunate line splitting was unreadable. I chose midrange and mainframe programming because of the money and guaranteed job but I dropped it pretty darn quickly because it wasn't worth any amount of money to put up with that. I also was the best programmer my advanced VB programming teacher had ever seen. I got a 105% on the final project. I started programming because I was good at it, not because of the money or any other reason. So if someone like me isn't willing to deal with COBOL and RPG, good luck finding someone else. Companies just need to dump it.
I'm now head IT manager at a medium-sized company and we have to dump our current CRM because the company behind it got aqcuired by another so there's no support or updates for server 2012 or IE9 and we bought it in 2009. Anyone using COBOL has at least 10+ years of not quite understanding that exact point.
The #1 things I focused on in college programming classes were AI helpfulness on input validation and accurate progress bars. I basically mixed a hybrid of retroactive total time vs data processed mixed with anything that would throw that off while benchmarking like stops and gaps in data while looking forward to the total count and removing any initial startup time from the equation as well. It's actually REALLY, REALLY accurate to do it that way and took about 3 minutes and maybe 5 lines of code.