How is destroying data on the companies' laptop any different from destroying data on their database, or shredding documents?
If you don't know the answer to this, then you are obviously not a software engineer.
Companies don't store their primary copy of important information on laptops.
COMET will save the world!
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Help me smuggle $6,000,000,000 out of Nigeria
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Hello,
I represent some dead person in Nigeria, and would
like to smuggle 6 billion dollars out of the country.
Also, I would like to marry you. Please help me.
I am a man or a woman, whichever you prefer.
About 15 years ago, I heard a story of a
programmer who would not multiply or divide
by a multiple of 2, but would always shift
instead. No one else could maintain his code,
but everyone wanted him on their projects.
Thank God those people are finally dying off.
You meant this as a joke, but there was an
article the other day talking about how some
software companies are sending work to places
like Jonesboro, Arkansas or Oklahoma City
because it is no more expensive than offshoring
to India.
Of course in practice it is not enforced,
but China as a member state of the United Nations
is bound by this to respect freedom of expression.
This is not some Western viewpoint imposed on others.
I tried doing this with the electronic version
of the Encyclopedia Britannica. I was planning to do this over about 20 years. I got as far
as "ac".
More interesting at least for me is reading a range of books. Taking the list of 101 interesting books from, "The Readers Guide to Good Literature" seems to me to be a more interesting project.
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Reading 33,000 pages in a year means 90.41 pages each day. This is hardly a monumental feat; I know several people who regularly read over a hundred pages per day.
Yes, but there is not plot, unless it's:
God did it.
As one woman told me who had been promoted
to a managerial role, "If I liked people, I wouldn't have become a programmer."
I probably have better social skills than the parent poster, but that is how I got most of my jobs too. In recessions though, it was my contacts that got me jobs.
It's also interesting that "lack of resources"
wasn't one of the six problems listed. In my experience, that is by far the number one problem. If you give an adequate number of competent developers an adequate amount of time to build software, it will generally get done on time.
In the article, he referred to natural, not
man-made events. Doing the math gives a
50% chance of man being wiped out every 31,500
years. If true, it is pretty amazing that it
hasn't happened already.
Check out http://passwordsafe.sourceforge.net.
You can use this program with one good password
and then look up all of your other passwords,
which can then look like ^73k3E!F;=
This program was originally devloped by
CounterPane Internet Security, where Bruce
Schneier is the security expert. It is now
an open-source project. The only downside is
that it only claims to run on M@cr@$@ft.
Someone should port to Linux.
The reason for grade inflation is people like
these weenies who don't have the backbone to
give realistic grades. Grading is not supposed
to be a way of endearing yourself to your students.
Professors who do a good job teaching are respected. Those who can't teach well may find
that grading generously helps. They would do a
better job of serving their students if they
improved their teaching skills, and graded more honestly.
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AJAX is so passe.
It's not a cup holder, it's a CD player.
Hello, I represent some dead person in Nigeria, and would like to smuggle 6 billion dollars out of the country. Also, I would like to marry you. Please help me. I am a man or a woman, whichever you prefer.
Do these pigs have 4 asses?
Good thing he didn't tell them to hit the back button.
Not only that, but this was the very next story after the RIAA one.
I am thinking about being a stockbroker, and knowing what will happen in the future would also benefit my career.
About 15 years ago, I heard a story of a programmer who would not multiply or divide by a multiple of 2, but would always shift instead. No one else could maintain his code, but everyone wanted him on their projects. Thank God those people are finally dying off.
It's hard to even make a decent joke anymore.
Of course in practice it is not enforced, but China as a member state of the United Nations is bound by this to respect freedom of expression. This is not some Western viewpoint imposed on others.
By this logic, a browser with a buffer overflow problem could say that it is not their fault, but the attackers.
I thought that Adam and Eve ate the dinosaurs after they shoved apples in their mouths.
More interesting at least for me is reading a range of books. Taking the list of 101 interesting books from, "The Readers Guide to Good Literature" seems to me to be a more interesting project.
- You own the source code.
Anyone who would pay for custom software without getting the source code for it deserves to get screwed.
I watched Voyager for all 7 seasons (no I don't know why), and even I stopped watching Enterprise after the first season.
I probably have better social skills than the parent poster, but that is how I got most of my jobs too. In recessions though, it was my contacts that got me jobs.
It's also interesting that "lack of resources" wasn't one of the six problems listed. In my experience, that is by far the number one problem. If you give an adequate number of competent developers an adequate amount of time to build software, it will generally get done on time.
In the article, he referred to natural, not man-made events. Doing the math gives a 50% chance of man being wiped out every 31,500 years. If true, it is pretty amazing that it hasn't happened already.
This program was originally devloped by CounterPane Internet Security, where Bruce Schneier is the security expert. It is now an open-source project. The only downside is that it only claims to run on M@cr@$@ft. Someone should port to Linux.
The reason for grade inflation is people like these weenies who don't have the backbone to give realistic grades. Grading is not supposed to be a way of endearing yourself to your students. Professors who do a good job teaching are respected. Those who can't teach well may find that grading generously helps. They would do a better job of serving their students if they improved their teaching skills, and graded more honestly.
My favorite part is the corn based tires.
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That's funny, mine comes back with that in less than a second. I must have a faster processor.