Or you could get your kid a Disney cell phone. They're rugged. You can track them with it. And you can prevent them from texting/phoning anyone but you.
Could we please get some explanatory links in here?
While this is not my area of expertise, I think I can explain. His team leaders/scrotum masters are poor leaders. They don't seem to understand flexibility. He on the other hand, he thinks he understands flexibility. And he wants an intern to be the scrotum master.
The only part that I find confusing is that interns are usually the slaves, not the masters. Somehow, this guy thinks that a new slave can suddenly become a master just like that. That, I don't think so. So I'm either misunderstanding something, or this guy is missing the bigger picture. The issue that the team lead is overburdened is probably a very real problem, that I don't doubt. But it seems to me, this anonymous poster would just be trading one problem for another. An intern doesn't have the experience. An intern doesn't have the authority. One might as very well leave the scrotum alone if there is no one there that can handle it.
It doesn't, but it would give security experts more power -- more money. And it wouldn't solve other security problems, such as social engineering through the phone, or someone knocking on your door to scam you in person, etc.
Perhaps if it were treated as a crime, those people may change their attitude.
Sure, because criminalizing drugs has worked so well at changing people's attitude. And prison hardly costs anything to implement, we should just be building more of them.
Furthermore, I'm curious: how, exactly, does a TV station collaborate with a military coup?
The same reason the military would put the president of the chamber of commerce as the new head of state. It makes no sense unless you thought the military was taking orders from the CIA. And the CIA certainly has the track record of using television stations and radio stations to foment coups. Honduras and Guatemala are just two such well-known and documented examples (I'm sure there are more).
The media is just one of the tools used in psychological warfare.
Emphasis on "credible": ridiculous conspiracy theories and other random youtube bullshit about magic snipers don't quite pass the test, especially considering the very clear video footage we all saw on live TV of the Chavista thugs shooting freely down at the march from the bridge.
You must be living in Venezuela, because in the US we didn't get to see live footage (except for the one that showed George W Bush saying that Chavez "deserved it", when the news of the coup was still just coming out, and we still all thought that the coup had succeeded). In any case, youtube has videos of both sides of the conflict. And since you're living in Venezuela (I assume), you should actually have an easier time than me in seeing which videos are true.
ridiculous conspiracy theories
Come on, don't you find it suspicious that the CIA operative who was in charge of the rebel death squads in Nicaragua during the Iran-Contra scandal became the US ambassador to Venezuela? And don't you find is suspicious that the president of the chamber of commerce suddenly believes one day that he's the new supreme leader of Venezuela? There was a conspiracy alright, there was an attempted coup after all. It's just that we're disagreeing on the nature of the conspiracy, and some of the main players involved.
Here, here is what happened on April 8th, three days before the attempted coup (notice that I'm linking to Forbes magazine, a magazine that is no friend of Chavez). The theory on Wall Street is that Hugo Chavez nationalized the oil fields, replaced its board of directors, and halted the export of oil from Venezuela (in collusion with Saddam Hussein who halted oil production in Iraq at the exact same time). Furthermore, and you'll have to forgive my lack of sourcing for all these conjectures (you certainly don't have to believe me if you don't want to). The idea is that Hugo Chavez knew that he was triggering the CIA coup against himself by doing this, but he did it anyway because that allowed him to predict the time, the date, and the location of the coup (in other words, he was following the exact same game plan that Fidel Castro had used for the Bay of Pigs).
And what the Irish documentary did not show was the real reason the coup failed. It was not just the fact that the people outside the palace asked for Chavez back, it was that Hugo Chavez had hidden a large contingent of loyal guards under the palace all along. And when the new self-selected "government" came to the palace, it came right into the trap Hugo Chavez had set for them (it was not the palace guards that took back the palace, it was the guards that were hidden underneath it that did it).
Also, don't forget this tidbit: "and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized." Searching the hard drive is one thing. Imaging the entire hard drive, and keeping that image on file for an undetermined period of time, is another thing entirely.
If you present the forensics expert with a totally clean system, does that put the employee into some sort of twisted-logic situation that would be a big problem?
I'm not an expert, but that would depend on the date of you actual "wipe and reinstall". Wouldn't it? If you wiped your laptop just *after* having received the subpoena, then yes that would look suspicious. If on the other hand, your wipe predated the subpoena, and even predated the start of any legal proceedings against your former employer, then I'd think you'd be fine -- but you'd still have to turn over your laptop for them to check anyway.
In any case, it would seem like a good idea to do a full wipe and a full re-installation after leaving any employer. It wouldn't prevent third parties from trying to get to your old backups and old emails of course, but if you did use your personal laptop for work -- that would seem like a sensible precaution to take every time you switched employers.
And even living in the US, I'm automatically put off by businesses that use stock business photos on their web site. I'm sure those made sense when they were first used, but now that there is no barrier to entry to using such pictures, and now that everybody is using those pictures the same way. It just seems like a mindless/pointless dis-genuine business practice.
And I don't like to do business with mindless fake companies, I'm sure no one else does too. It's just that most executives/marketers don't have the balls to challenge conventional corporate habits.
Outside of Linux development Git is almost unheard of, but may gain popularity and although I've worked with Mercurial professionally I've yet to see it used anywhere for Open Source development, yet.
I guess I must be living in my own bubble then. Not that subversion isn't the most dominant version control system out there, it still is I think, but recently I've been using github (which uses git) and google code (which uses Mercurial) most of the time -- and I can see why someone could mistakenly think that github and google code are the only thing there is (after all, who uses sourceforge/tigris anymore? I'm sure some people still do use those repos, but I certainly wouldn't start a new open source project on those -- now that I have github).
4. This same writer contacted several of our app store developers wanting negative comments from them regarding Reverb. They all gave positive feedback, but the writer left this aspect out of the story.
Why should your app store developers (your clients) provide negative comments? Don't they benefit from your positive reviews? May be the writer should just have tried contacting the competitors of your clients.
If she didn't have the berries to say this with her real name attached, or to the model's face, she shouldn't have said it. Dan Rather wouldn't have hidden.
She's not hiding. She's link-baiting. Those two are not the same thing.
She herself admits she's greatly benefited from all the attention (She's been benefiting from the Streisand effect). Before the lawsuit, she was completely unknown. Even her blog had no traffic on it. Now she's appearing on national talk shows and she's becoming a national celebrity (it probably also helps that she's pretty cute).
Apparently, you can use Gizmo5 (for free) with Google Voice to receive calls on gTalk (someone also suggested SIPGate), so it's possible -- just convoluted.
Correction: The ones we have in Berkeley, I don't think they have sensors. They're just called "smart" for marketing purposes I think. Here is what I actually meant to say: The end time indicated on the receipt that we put on the dashboard doesn't end -- once we change parking spaces. So we can park in one place, purchase the paper receipt, put it on our dashboard, and move to another Berkeley public parking space (without needing to pay for another one -- of course assuming that the original end time we paid for hasn't expired yet).
If they have sensors, they should make my clock stop when I leave, and let me use up the rest of my time the next time I park at a comparable place in the city. If I leave 10 minutes later, only 10 minutes should be subtracted.
That's actually how they work. The same exact model is being used in Berkeley, CA. And they work well.
It's not 'free time' The meter is still counting down, and just because someone else paid doesn't make it 'free time', except to you. The city is still getting paid for the time.
It's not 'free time' because the original car is driving off with the receipt, and they can park in another space using that same receipt (I know this because those meters in Chicago are the same exact ones we have in Berkeley, I just double-checked, and they actually do work extremely well).
Those sound like the one they have in Berkeley, CA. They're the only generation of parking meters that survived (our trying to break them constantly). And they actually work pretty well (and of course, they're not $84 for 24 hrs, they're more like two dollars for two hours, and they're free after 6 PM or on Sundays and holidays).
What the summary doesn't mention is that waiting in line is not an issue in reality. The biggest line I've ever waited for that kind of meter was only one person long (and that means a wait of only 5 seconds, or may be 10 seconds at the most). And if for some reason the pay station is broken, you can go to another one which is awesome (because previously, people were breaking meters, and the previous instruction written on the meters was to look for another parking spot if your meter was broken -- otherwise you'd get a ticket, so because there was massive underground effort in Berkeley to vandalize all the meters, there were many empty spots that no one could use -- except for the ones that had handicapped placards). And now with the new smart meters, since you're having your little parking receipt visible in your window, you're allowed to move your car and park it in another parking space (without having to pay for it a second time, which again is also useful).
And should you have a ticket while you're buying your parking, that's easy too. Both the parking ticket you're getting and the parking receipt you're purchasing are time-stamped, so it would be easy to prove that you were trying to buy parking while you were getting a ticket. But even that, that doesn't happen, the meter-maids of Berkeley are the biggest bitches in the entire World -- but even them -- they won't give you a ticket if they see you at the parking pay meter (which is always within the line of sight of your parking space, and also now, those meters are never broken nowadays, this means that even thought you could walk to another meter if you needed to, that's not even an issue. The people of Berkeley have basically lost the War against car parking meters, but at least now, those smart parking meters a lot more convenient and a lot more logical -- so it's not a complete loss).
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Did anyone else think the headline was a lead-in for Defying Gravity (one of the best sci-fi dramas since Battlestar Galactica)?
where can I find results of all those experiments?
You better clear out your calendar, you have a lot reading ahead of you.
I would NEVER buy my kid a cel phone.
Or you could get your kid a Disney cell phone. They're rugged. You can track them with it. And you can prevent them from texting/phoning anyone but you.
Could we please get some explanatory links in here?
While this is not my area of expertise, I think I can explain. His team leaders/scrotum masters are poor leaders. They don't seem to understand flexibility. He on the other hand, he thinks he understands flexibility. And he wants an intern to be the scrotum master.
The only part that I find confusing is that interns are usually the slaves, not the masters. Somehow, this guy thinks that a new slave can suddenly become a master just like that. That, I don't think so. So I'm either misunderstanding something, or this guy is missing the bigger picture. The issue that the team lead is overburdened is probably a very real problem, that I don't doubt. But it seems to me, this anonymous poster would just be trading one problem for another. An intern doesn't have the experience. An intern doesn't have the authority. One might as very well leave the scrotum alone if there is no one there that can handle it.
It doesn't, but it would give security experts more power -- more money. And it wouldn't solve other security problems, such as social engineering through the phone, or someone knocking on your door to scam you in person, etc.
Perhaps if it were treated as a crime, those people may change their attitude.
Sure, because criminalizing drugs has worked so well at changing people's attitude. And prison hardly costs anything to implement, we should just be building more of them.
I can just imagine his testimony now. "All you politicians are idiots. You shouldn't even be allowed to use computers."
Furthermore, I'm curious: how, exactly, does a TV station collaborate with a military coup?
The same reason the military would put the president of the chamber of commerce as the new head of state. It makes no sense unless you thought the military was taking orders from the CIA. And the CIA certainly has the track record of using television stations and radio stations to foment coups. Honduras and Guatemala are just two such well-known and documented examples (I'm sure there are more).
The media is just one of the tools used in psychological warfare.
Emphasis on "credible": ridiculous conspiracy theories and other random youtube bullshit about magic snipers don't quite pass the test, especially considering the very clear video footage we all saw on live TV of the Chavista thugs shooting freely down at the march from the bridge.
You must be living in Venezuela, because in the US we didn't get to see live footage (except for the one that showed George W Bush saying that Chavez "deserved it", when the news of the coup was still just coming out, and we still all thought that the coup had succeeded). In any case, youtube has videos of both sides of the conflict. And since you're living in Venezuela (I assume), you should actually have an easier time than me in seeing which videos are true.
ridiculous conspiracy theories
Come on, don't you find it suspicious that the CIA operative who was in charge of the rebel death squads in Nicaragua during the Iran-Contra scandal became the US ambassador to Venezuela? And don't you find is suspicious that the president of the chamber of commerce suddenly believes one day that he's the new supreme leader of Venezuela? There was a conspiracy alright, there was an attempted coup after all. It's just that we're disagreeing on the nature of the conspiracy, and some of the main players involved.
Here, here is what happened on April 8th, three days before the attempted coup (notice that I'm linking to Forbes magazine, a magazine that is no friend of Chavez). The theory on Wall Street is that Hugo Chavez nationalized the oil fields, replaced its board of directors, and halted the export of oil from Venezuela (in collusion with Saddam Hussein who halted oil production in Iraq at the exact same time). Furthermore, and you'll have to forgive my lack of sourcing for all these conjectures (you certainly don't have to believe me if you don't want to). The idea is that Hugo Chavez knew that he was triggering the CIA coup against himself by doing this, but he did it anyway because that allowed him to predict the time, the date, and the location of the coup (in other words, he was following the exact same game plan that Fidel Castro had used for the Bay of Pigs).
And what the Irish documentary did not show was the real reason the coup failed. It was not just the fact that the people outside the palace asked for Chavez back, it was that Hugo Chavez had hidden a large contingent of loyal guards under the palace all along. And when the new self-selected "government" came to the palace, it came right into the trap Hugo Chavez had set for them (it was not the palace guards that took back the palace, it was the guards that were hidden underneath it that did it).
I can't believe that people are still calling the CIA-led April 11th, 2002 march against the palace -- a "peaceful march".
support is a huge thing if you are using adobe in your career.
Support comes at $120 an hour, and their support people are clueless. I guess this means you've never used Adobe in your career.
Also, don't forget this tidbit: "and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized." Searching the hard drive is one thing. Imaging the entire hard drive, and keeping that image on file for an undetermined period of time, is another thing entirely.
If you present the forensics expert with a totally clean system, does that put the employee into some sort of twisted-logic situation that would be a big problem?
I'm not an expert, but that would depend on the date of you actual "wipe and reinstall". Wouldn't it? If you wiped your laptop just *after* having received the subpoena, then yes that would look suspicious. If on the other hand, your wipe predated the subpoena, and even predated the start of any legal proceedings against your former employer, then I'd think you'd be fine -- but you'd still have to turn over your laptop for them to check anyway.
In any case, it would seem like a good idea to do a full wipe and a full re-installation after leaving any employer. It wouldn't prevent third parties from trying to get to your old backups and old emails of course, but if you did use your personal laptop for work -- that would seem like a sensible precaution to take every time you switched employers.
And even living in the US, I'm automatically put off by businesses that use stock business photos on their web site. I'm sure those made sense when they were first used, but now that there is no barrier to entry to using such pictures, and now that everybody is using those pictures the same way. It just seems like a mindless/pointless dis-genuine business practice.
And I don't like to do business with mindless fake companies, I'm sure no one else does too. It's just that most executives/marketers don't have the balls to challenge conventional corporate habits.
Bill Clinton isn't black?
Outside of Linux development Git is almost unheard of, but may gain popularity and although I've worked with Mercurial professionally I've yet to see it used anywhere for Open Source development, yet.
I guess I must be living in my own bubble then. Not that subversion isn't the most dominant version control system out there, it still is I think, but recently I've been using github (which uses git) and google code (which uses Mercurial) most of the time -- and I can see why someone could mistakenly think that github and google code are the only thing there is (after all, who uses sourceforge/tigris anymore? I'm sure some people still do use those repos, but I certainly wouldn't start a new open source project on those -- now that I have github).
4. This same writer contacted several of our app store developers wanting negative comments from them regarding Reverb. They all gave positive feedback, but the writer left this aspect out of the story.
Why should your app store developers (your clients) provide negative comments? Don't they benefit from your positive reviews? May be the writer should just have tried contacting the competitors of your clients.
If she didn't have the berries to say this with her real name attached, or to the model's face, she shouldn't have said it. Dan Rather wouldn't have hidden.
She's not hiding. She's link-baiting. Those two are not the same thing.
She herself admits she's greatly benefited from all the attention (She's been benefiting from the Streisand effect). Before the lawsuit, she was completely unknown. Even her blog had no traffic on it. Now she's appearing on national talk shows and she's becoming a national celebrity (it probably also helps that she's pretty cute).
Apparently, you can use Gizmo5 (for free) with Google Voice to receive calls on gTalk (someone also suggested SIPGate), so it's possible -- just convoluted.
Correction: The ones we have in Berkeley, I don't think they have sensors. They're just called "smart" for marketing purposes I think. Here is what I actually meant to say: The end time indicated on the receipt that we put on the dashboard doesn't end -- once we change parking spaces. So we can park in one place, purchase the paper receipt, put it on our dashboard, and move to another Berkeley public parking space (without needing to pay for another one -- of course assuming that the original end time we paid for hasn't expired yet).
If they have sensors, they should make my clock stop when I leave, and let me use up the rest of my time the next time I park at a comparable place in the city. If I leave 10 minutes later, only 10 minutes should be subtracted.
That's actually how they work. The same exact model is being used in Berkeley, CA. And they work well.
You seem to be in agreement with his point. It's not his car that's evil, it's *him*.
Functional? Is this solution recursive?
It's not 'free time' The meter is still counting down, and just because someone else paid doesn't make it 'free time', except to you. The city is still getting paid for the time.
It's not 'free time' because the original car is driving off with the receipt, and they can park in another space using that same receipt (I know this because those meters in Chicago are the same exact ones we have in Berkeley, I just double-checked, and they actually do work extremely well).
Those sound like the one they have in Berkeley, CA. They're the only generation of parking meters that survived (our trying to break them constantly). And they actually work pretty well (and of course, they're not $84 for 24 hrs, they're more like two dollars for two hours, and they're free after 6 PM or on Sundays and holidays).
What the summary doesn't mention is that waiting in line is not an issue in reality. The biggest line I've ever waited for that kind of meter was only one person long (and that means a wait of only 5 seconds, or may be 10 seconds at the most). And if for some reason the pay station is broken, you can go to another one which is awesome (because previously, people were breaking meters, and the previous instruction written on the meters was to look for another parking spot if your meter was broken -- otherwise you'd get a ticket, so because there was massive underground effort in Berkeley to vandalize all the meters, there were many empty spots that no one could use -- except for the ones that had handicapped placards). And now with the new smart meters, since you're having your little parking receipt visible in your window, you're allowed to move your car and park it in another parking space (without having to pay for it a second time, which again is also useful).
And should you have a ticket while you're buying your parking, that's easy too. Both the parking ticket you're getting and the parking receipt you're purchasing are time-stamped, so it would be easy to prove that you were trying to buy parking while you were getting a ticket. But even that, that doesn't happen, the meter-maids of Berkeley are the biggest bitches in the entire World -- but even them -- they won't give you a ticket if they see you at the parking pay meter (which is always within the line of sight of your parking space, and also now, those meters are never broken nowadays, this means that even thought you could walk to another meter if you needed to, that's not even an issue. The people of Berkeley have basically lost the War against car parking meters, but at least now, those smart parking meters a lot more convenient and a lot more logical -- so it's not a complete loss).