2. Work at a company who's business is technology, which is still run by a techie. Make sure to leave once the suits take over.
I would add, don't even start working for a company if the CEO/owner/top execs aren't techies.
See Apple, Google, and Craigslist, Blizzard, Valve, and CCP as positive examples.
See EA, Microsoft, or basically any game publishing company for a negative example.
The former want to make cool things, and respect what is necessary to do that, the latter just want to make money and sell plastic discs, and they don't care one whit what it takes to make them rich.
The future of portable computing is basically already here.
Smartphones.
My iPhone is the first device I'm willing to call a portable computer. It's fast, fairly capable, and can do a ton of things rather well. Phone, GPS, pretty decent email even without a keyboard, games, entertainment, ebooks etc.
It's already replaced my N810 for ebook reading, my calculator, my existing phone, could, with a little more investment, replace my GPS, and even has a compass in the stock, and this thing which tells time.
That's where the future is, a highly portable, highly capable puck that goes in your pocket. It won't replace portable computers with qwerty keyboards, at least not for a while yet, but it sure as shit isn't wearable crap. The future is a smooth brick, not a smooth wristband that you're going to smash into doorknobs and shatter.
One of the most powerful reasons for this is people don't like carrying around a lot of crap, but want a lot out of what they do carry, the more one can do, the more other things it will replace, but everybody wants at least a phone, so the future is smartphones. We've already got the Droid, iPhone, and the Nexus One.
tl;dr: The future is powerful, versatile, myriad function, smartphone pucks, not wearable devices. The cool thing is, it's mostly already here.
Now if only my iPhone could also unlock my car, house doors, and interface with credit card readers on demand, and be an acceptable form of government issued ID I wouldn't have to carry anything else in my pockets, but that's perhaps going a bit too far.
This seems like a pretty dramatic shift, and you have to wonder what China's really done to provoke such a reaction after everyone's spent the last decade quietly appeasing them to try and get a foothold in their markets.
Well for one, they almost singlehandedly turned the Copenhagen climate summit into a wash.
But if you ask me, the real reason the US Gov is starting to care is that China is fast becoming the player in the global economy. And that is a direct threat to the MoneyedInterests(TM) here in the US, which are who the government really works for.
Always follow the money, the threat to money, and the promise of money if you want to know the motives behind any entity larger than an individual.
I have a fledgling theory that this is largely the result of women in the workplace (and school is a workplace). Women are more concerned with feelings. Their own, and others. I'm not saying this by itself is necessarily bad, by itself, but when feelings take a back seat to actually getting things done, you end up precisely where we are. People feel better, but are less useful.
What he's saying is that notifying the vendor first doesn't result in a fix at all, so why waste breath and allow the vulnerability to remain in the wild longer?
If it's releasing them into the wild results in a faster fix, then that's what should be done. There's no such thing as security through obscurity. Whether it actually results in more damage to release it immediately without notifying the vendor than to notify the vendor and have them do nothing for six months - while during those six months, others can exploit the vulnerability maliciously - remains to be seen.
I don't get why the tags "hahahaha", "whenpigsfly" and "yeahright" are on there.
They're mostly correct.
It's basically an arms race between ad blockers and advertisers. And AdBlockPlus, for one, is faster. So they only option they really have is to make ads that aren't so obnoxious they'll be blocked. ad blockers were created primarily because the ads got incredibly annoying and they're here to stay, so it's either tame the ads or have all ads blocked.
I mean, who bothers to block Google ads? They're usually relevant and never annoying (when compared to animated flash objects with sound at least).
So which ads get seen? The ones that aren't obnoxious. Which ads are the most expensive (and valuable)? Non-obnoxious, relevant ads. Primarily Google's.
I got on facebook to reconnect with friends. Not to have everyone and their brother connect with me.
How do you think you found your friends? Oh yeah, their information was publicly available. But when you don't want to be found, suddenly publicly available information is bad?
It's this "screw you, me me me me me" attitude that blows my freaking mind and makes me more misanthropic every day.
If you don't want to be found, and don't bother trying to find friends through means you're not willing to expose yourself to.
Have some common decency and respect for your fellow human beings. Treat them as you want to be treated, and we're all better off. Treat them like this and we all suffer.
Except that all of those cause your browser to try and connect to your local box's webserver to get the ad. Not a huge deal if you don't have one, but still a waste of resources.
Better to use 0.0.0.0. The null route is more quickly and more efficiently understood.
But even better than that is to use adblock to remove the ads, then you don't have to put a million entries in your system's DNS cache that have to be reloaded on system startup. I haven't tried it on Linux in a while, but back in the day I had a huge (30KB) etc/hosts file on windows, and it delayed system startup by about 20 seconds.
And the results are usually I get a credit of like $3.22 with a company that I no longer do business with, nor wish to.
I get some coupon of a trivial amount that I can't or won't use.
The lawfirm invariably takes a huge cut of the whole deal, almost always a figure in the millions.
And I get a fucking token restitution?
Yes, the corporation or entity is generally receives punishment, and that's good, even though the degree is often of dubious value (sometimes simply considered an expense, and they do it again).
The law firm invariably receives a fat payment for services rendered (which is fine, they did their jobs).
The claimants who were actually wronged? Get squat.
That's incredibly shortsighted given that merchants already forward the information to processing companies, simply to validate and see if the charge will go through.
How about we simply disallow deceptive advertising? That would fix this and a host of other bullshit besides.
Last time I tried to unsubscribe I had no alternative but to call them, at which point they tried asking me a million questions, like "Do you want to transfer it to someone else?" or "Do you want to give it to a friend, or transfer to another credit card?" instead of canceling the fucking account.
Sure, you can sign up quick and easy, right from your 360! But to cancel, you have to hunt down the phone number, then fucking call them, then wait on hold, then be harassed, and then, if you haven't hung up in rage by then, they'll cancel it.
There are two well known alternatives of decreasing footprint, FoxIt Reader (which is about as bloated as Acrobat Reader 6), and SumatraPDF, which is tiny, fast and, feature light.
The reason we want dedicated routers has nothing to do with computers being incapable of serving the same function. It's because we want to isolate functionality to minimize the risk of getting hacked.
I'm pretty sure it was to connect computers together...
In my experience it's worse than a flat shared network drive because no one who didn't put the document there can ever find it.
We use it mostly because we got it free with our existing MS license agreement. Not a single person I've talked to likes it or can find anything on it.
It's search capabilities are completely worthless. To the point that I once proposed installing google desktop on the sharepoint server as a workaround. I didn't realize that there were permissions setup within sharepoint that made this a security risk at the time, but still.
All of the developers on my team use a local MediaWiki..wiki almost exclusively for anything we create. It's got built in version control, decent search results, and anyone can update it with any browswer. And sharepoint is crippled from Firefox, which is as good as you're going to get in Linux, which many of the developers use. For all the documents we get from other departments, we ask that they provide the document or direct links to them, because I'd rather play a state lottery than bet on finding what you were looking for by yourself in sharepoint.
I am not sure how many people you are going to get to buy an e-book for the same price that they could pick up a physical copy at their local book store
I'm at least one.
I'd rather have ebooks to replace my huge, difficult to move, packed away in boxes, hard to find what I want library with a machine searchable list so small I can carry the entire library on my iPhone or N810 anywhere I go. If I could trade in all the books in my library for digital editions readable in Stanza, I'd do it today and pay to have it done.
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I would add, don't even start working for a company if the CEO/owner/top execs aren't techies.
See Apple, Google, and Craigslist, Blizzard, Valve, and CCP as positive examples.
See EA, Microsoft, or basically any game publishing company for a negative example.
The former want to make cool things, and respect what is necessary to do that, the latter just want to make money and sell plastic discs, and they don't care one whit what it takes to make them rich.
Couldn't the WHOIS service, by hosting spammers, be held liable for criminal conspiracy or aiding and abetting?
Or at least investigated to determine if they were knowingly protecting spammers under one or both of those charges?
The future of portable computing is basically already here.
Smartphones.
My iPhone is the first device I'm willing to call a portable computer. It's fast, fairly capable, and can do a ton of things rather well. Phone, GPS, pretty decent email even without a keyboard, games, entertainment, ebooks etc.
It's already replaced my N810 for ebook reading, my calculator, my existing phone, could, with a little more investment, replace my GPS, and even has a compass in the stock, and this thing which tells time.
That's where the future is, a highly portable, highly capable puck that goes in your pocket. It won't replace portable computers with qwerty keyboards, at least not for a while yet, but it sure as shit isn't wearable crap. The future is a smooth brick, not a smooth wristband that you're going to smash into doorknobs and shatter.
One of the most powerful reasons for this is people don't like carrying around a lot of crap, but want a lot out of what they do carry, the more one can do, the more other things it will replace, but everybody wants at least a phone, so the future is smartphones. We've already got the Droid, iPhone, and the Nexus One.
tl;dr: The future is powerful, versatile, myriad function, smartphone pucks, not wearable devices. The cool thing is, it's mostly already here.
Now if only my iPhone could also unlock my car, house doors, and interface with credit card readers on demand, and be an acceptable form of government issued ID I wouldn't have to carry anything else in my pockets, but that's perhaps going a bit too far.
IT's job is to facilitate the rest of the company with regard to technology. Period.
It's their job to make IT stuff work, make it work faster, make it more reliable, and easier to use.
Running it as a separate entity, or one in which the IT staff don't have to have a clue about the domain the company works in is foolish.
All Verizon blackberry storms now default (unchangably) to Bing. I'm sure that helps.
Well for one, they almost singlehandedly turned the Copenhagen climate summit into a wash.
But if you ask me, the real reason the US Gov is starting to care is that China is fast becoming the player in the global economy. And that is a direct threat to the MoneyedInterests(TM) here in the US, which are who the government really works for.
Always follow the money, the threat to money, and the promise of money if you want to know the motives behind any entity larger than an individual.
Actually, it takes a screenshot in most (all?) versions of windows. Does in Ubuntu too.
Alt+PrtScn will take a screenshot of only the current window, again in windows and at least Ubuntu.
Doesn't the kindle have rudimentary text-to-speech? Whereas most dead-tree books most certainly do not.
I have a fledgling theory that this is largely the result of women in the workplace (and school is a workplace). Women are more concerned with feelings. Their own, and others. I'm not saying this by itself is necessarily bad, by itself, but when feelings take a back seat to actually getting things done, you end up precisely where we are. People feel better, but are less useful.
here's a perfect example.
It's completely irrational to broadcast that everyone reading a site is a strong, confidant woman.
Those things are feelings, not quantifiable qualities, or concrete measures of worth, just feelings.
Besides, when a woman says, "strong, confidant woman", the second poster in this picture is who comes to mind.
Absolutely strong and confidant.
What he's saying is that notifying the vendor first doesn't result in a fix at all, so why waste breath and allow the vulnerability to remain in the wild longer?
If it's releasing them into the wild results in a faster fix, then that's what should be done. There's no such thing as security through obscurity. Whether it actually results in more damage to release it immediately without notifying the vendor than to notify the vendor and have them do nothing for six months - while during those six months, others can exploit the vulnerability maliciously - remains to be seen.
I don't get why the tags "hahahaha", "whenpigsfly" and "yeahright" are on there.
They're mostly correct.
It's basically an arms race between ad blockers and advertisers. And AdBlockPlus, for one, is faster. So they only option they really have is to make ads that aren't so obnoxious they'll be blocked. ad blockers were created primarily because the ads got incredibly annoying and they're here to stay, so it's either tame the ads or have all ads blocked.
I mean, who bothers to block Google ads? They're usually relevant and never annoying (when compared to animated flash objects with sound at least).
So which ads get seen? The ones that aren't obnoxious. Which ads are the most expensive (and valuable)? Non-obnoxious, relevant ads. Primarily Google's.
Just opt your self out of TV. Some forms of entertainment still exist that aren't chock full of advertisements and product placements...yet.
Less advertising revenue will teach them a better lesson than complaining about it.
Besides, you know they'll find a way to warp any and all legislation verbiage to their advantage even if it's passed.
How do you think you found your friends? Oh yeah, their information was publicly available. But when you don't want to be found, suddenly publicly available information is bad?
It's this "screw you, me me me me me" attitude that blows my freaking mind and makes me more misanthropic every day.
If you don't want to be found, and don't bother trying to find friends through means you're not willing to expose yourself to.
Have some common decency and respect for your fellow human beings. Treat them as you want to be treated, and we're all better off. Treat them like this and we all suffer.
They pay our representatives a lot more than we do.
Except that all of those cause your browser to try and connect to your local box's webserver to get the ad. Not a huge deal if you don't have one, but still a waste of resources.
Better to use 0.0.0.0. The null route is more quickly and more efficiently understood.
But even better than that is to use adblock to remove the ads, then you don't have to put a million entries in your system's DNS cache that have to be reloaded on system startup. I haven't tried it on Linux in a while, but back in the day I had a huge (30KB) etc/hosts file on windows, and it delayed system startup by about 20 seconds.
I've been involved in several.
And the results are usually I get a credit of like $3.22 with a company that I no longer do business with, nor wish to.
I get some coupon of a trivial amount that I can't or won't use.
The lawfirm invariably takes a huge cut of the whole deal, almost always a figure in the millions.
And I get a fucking token restitution?
Yes, the corporation or entity is generally receives punishment, and that's good, even though the degree is often of dubious value (sometimes simply considered an expense, and they do it again).
The law firm invariably receives a fat payment for services rendered (which is fine, they did their jobs).
The claimants who were actually wronged? Get squat.
That's incredibly shortsighted given that merchants already forward the information to processing companies, simply to validate and see if the charge will go through.
How about we simply disallow deceptive advertising? That would fix this and a host of other bullshit besides.
This was no accident.
You can cancel online now?
Last time I tried to unsubscribe I had no alternative but to call them, at which point they tried asking me a million questions, like "Do you want to transfer it to someone else?" or "Do you want to give it to a friend, or transfer to another credit card?" instead of canceling the fucking account.
Sure, you can sign up quick and easy, right from your 360! But to cancel, you have to hunt down the phone number, then fucking call them, then wait on hold, then be harassed, and then, if you haven't hung up in rage by then, they'll cancel it.
Fucking despicable, Microsoft. Fucking despicable.
Sun, not Sol.
Ejection seats.
Adobe Reader is crapware.
There are two well known alternatives of decreasing footprint, FoxIt Reader (which is about as bloated as Acrobat Reader 6), and SumatraPDF, which is tiny, fast and, feature light.
I'm pretty sure it was to connect computers together...
In my experience it's worse than a flat shared network drive because no one who didn't put the document there can ever find it.
We use it mostly because we got it free with our existing MS license agreement. Not a single person I've talked to likes it or can find anything on it.
It's search capabilities are completely worthless. To the point that I once proposed installing google desktop on the sharepoint server as a workaround. I didn't realize that there were permissions setup within sharepoint that made this a security risk at the time, but still.
All of the developers on my team use a local MediaWiki..wiki almost exclusively for anything we create. It's got built in version control, decent search results, and anyone can update it with any browswer. And sharepoint is crippled from Firefox, which is as good as you're going to get in Linux, which many of the developers use. For all the documents we get from other departments, we ask that they provide the document or direct links to them, because I'd rather play a state lottery than bet on finding what you were looking for by yourself in sharepoint.
I'm at least one.
I'd rather have ebooks to replace my huge, difficult to move, packed away in boxes, hard to find what I want library with a machine searchable list so small I can carry the entire library on my iPhone or N810 anywhere I go. If I could trade in all the books in my library for digital editions readable in Stanza, I'd do it today and pay to have it done.