Marissa Mayer should be required to forgo all her pay and bonuses for the period when she refused to fund realistic security measures. She ran Yahoo! into the ground and will be richly rewarded for doing so. Great work if you can get it..
.. has been notably short of good legal news lately, losing both the Google and HP lawsuits. He's obviously decided to fire some of his lawyers and hire astroturf agitators instead. This is what you do when you've chased off many of your customer base by shaking them down and/or suing them as well as being sued for breach of contract. Maybe the next phase of Oracle's business plan will be to actually try and compete for a change.
The law is pretty straightforward, how it's actually implemented is anything but. The oversight attention paid to H-1B visas simply doesn't pair up to the way the law is written. Many US tech giants, and some large employers outside tech, simply violate both the letter and the spirit of the law hoping lobbying and campaign donations will keep them from getting noticed.
"Is The US Social Security Site Still Vulnerable To Identity Theft?" The answer is almost certainly, yes. But is it vulnerable to the *same* threat as last time, and the answer, again, is probably yes.
I'm over 50 and regularly deal with Millennials and other 'younger' folks on a professional basis and they fall into 2 distinct camps: 1) Reasonable and interested in the wider world around them and where they fit into it. Well informed and knowledgeable. 2) Glued to FB/Twitter/texting to such an extent that it has become their *only* source of information. These folks regularly fall into holes (figurative and literal), walk into utility poles and kill others while driving. These are some of the most shallow and self-absorbed beings I've ever encountered. They make me concerned for our species.
Yes, I know this isn't limited to those on the younger end of life, but its effects seem most profound there.
Because they didn't think they needed to, and especially WRT Microsoft, they were disinclined to pay up. Larry is simply trying to sue Google because there may be money in it. Sun had the IP (bought from SavaJe) to implement something similar to Android but not the time or money to invest in it and CHOSE not to pursue it. JavaME was so far from usable as to be irrelevant. Google was willing to invest and succeed, Oracle is angry. Poor Oracle.
Takedown requests under the guise of the DMCA are the trademark equivalent of patent trolls. Current law really doesn't give much recourse to those harmed by spurious requests like this one. What about the artist who had his original work taken down because someone simply didn't 'like' it? Power without control or accountability.
This would change drastically id the US ever decided to enforce the letter of the H-1B law. As things are, they get no oversight and very little press, something Big Tech (fill in the names) have lobbied hard to maintain. Money talks.
Ever wonder how so many backdoors and virus vectors (not to mention zero day exploits) got propagated into OSS code? Wonder whose scanning code they're using? =8-0
Welcome to the future, where instruct-o-bots replace meatware in parts of higher ed. Whatever will the next generation of Grad Students do for fun (and money)?
Where both Flash and Java belong. When you need a VM, use a suitable VM technology - neither Flash nor Java will ever be secure enough. They do, however, both make excellent virus vectors.
The amount of parent/mentor involvement varies from team to team. Some (like my son's) were student built and programmed with parents and mentors basically providing funding, food and advice as to how to keep fingers attached to hands and eyes intact while using power tools. While visiting the pit area in St Louis, I did notice several teams where parents/mentors exclusively worked on 'bots while students stood by looking bored. This, thankfully, was the exception. This is a chance for students to see how tech teams work (and don't) and is about as close to reality as you can get, complete with funding challenges, personality issues, tight schedules and competition. It rocks.
Empirical data based on repeatable science just doesn't have that 'feel good' ring to it. The USG seems to prefer half-baked ideas based on trendy hypotheses that are difficult to prove out - especially when underfunded or outright blacklisted. Imagine trying to get a "butter is actually healthy for you" paper funded and peer-reviewed in 1980. As is frequently the case with government funded science, they get what we pay for.
Back in the day, I was taking an undergrad DB design course and asked the professor, "can you give an example of how tableau method is generalized in any commercial or open source DB program?" His response was, "why do you care, we study theory here.." CS academia is so stuck in the clouds of theory that the mere mention of a practical application for was reviled. Fast forward [mumble] years and it seems to be that way still.
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..from overpaid Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, net worth approximately $300m.
By this same argument wetlands (swamps, estuaries, ponds, etc) are major polluters. Just more clickbait as 'science'.
Marissa Mayer should be required to forgo all her pay and bonuses for the period when she refused to fund realistic security measures. She ran Yahoo! into the ground and will be richly rewarded for doing so. Great work if you can get it..
.. has been notably short of good legal news lately, losing both the Google and HP lawsuits. He's obviously decided to fire some of his lawyers and hire astroturf agitators instead. This is what you do when you've chased off many of your customer base by shaking them down and/or suing them as well as being sued for breach of contract. Maybe the next phase of Oracle's business plan will be to actually try and compete for a change.
The law is pretty straightforward, how it's actually implemented is anything but. The oversight attention paid to H-1B visas simply doesn't pair up to the way the law is written. Many US tech giants, and some large employers outside tech, simply violate both the letter and the spirit of the law hoping lobbying and campaign donations will keep them from getting noticed.
Larry would rather sue for imagined damages than compete in the market. Lawyers are better bang/buck than engineers, at least in his thinking.
"Is The US Social Security Site Still Vulnerable To Identity Theft?" The answer is almost certainly, yes. But is it vulnerable to the *same* threat as last time, and the answer, again, is probably yes.
What an idiot. Imperialism is bad, but technological imperialism is simply stupidity masked as pride.
I'm over 50 and regularly deal with Millennials and other 'younger' folks on a professional basis and they fall into 2 distinct camps:
1) Reasonable and interested in the wider world around them and where they fit into it. Well informed and knowledgeable.
2) Glued to FB/Twitter/texting to such an extent that it has become their *only* source of information. These folks regularly fall into holes (figurative and literal), walk into utility poles and kill others while driving. These are some of the most shallow and self-absorbed beings I've ever encountered. They make me concerned for our species.
Yes, I know this isn't limited to those on the younger end of life, but its effects seem most profound there.
FB has smoothly transitioned from tracking to stalking. A big NOPE and goodbye to all my FB friends as I delete my account and never use it again.
Because they didn't think they needed to, and especially WRT Microsoft, they were disinclined to pay up. Larry is simply trying to sue Google because there may be money in it. Sun had the IP (bought from SavaJe) to implement something similar to Android but not the time or money to invest in it and CHOSE not to pursue it. JavaME was so far from usable as to be irrelevant. Google was willing to invest and succeed, Oracle is angry. Poor Oracle.
Full disclosure - former Sun employee.
Takedown requests under the guise of the DMCA are the trademark equivalent of patent trolls. Current law really doesn't give much recourse to those harmed by spurious requests like this one. What about the artist who had his original work taken down because someone simply didn't 'like' it? Power without control or accountability.
This would change drastically id the US ever decided to enforce the letter of the H-1B law. As things are, they get no oversight and very little press, something Big Tech (fill in the names) have lobbied hard to maintain. Money talks.
Ever wonder how so many backdoors and virus vectors (not to mention zero day exploits) got propagated into OSS code? Wonder whose scanning code they're using? =8-0
Seems the CIA and its Inspector General are reading from the IRS playbook.
Welcome to the future, where instruct-o-bots replace meatware in parts of higher ed. Whatever will the next generation of Grad Students do for fun (and money)?
Where both Flash and Java belong. When you need a VM, use a suitable VM technology - neither Flash nor Java will ever be secure enough. They do, however, both make excellent virus vectors.
.. in people 'owning' their own music. This wouldn't be the first time Apple 'impaired' a function to drive consumer behavior in their favor.
..my order will be correct.
..now.
The amount of parent/mentor involvement varies from team to team. Some (like my son's) were student built and programmed with parents and mentors basically providing funding, food and advice as to how to keep fingers attached to hands and eyes intact while using power tools. While visiting the pit area in St Louis, I did notice several teams where parents/mentors exclusively worked on 'bots while students stood by looking bored. This, thankfully, was the exception. This is a chance for students to see how tech teams work (and don't) and is about as close to reality as you can get, complete with funding challenges, personality issues, tight schedules and competition. It rocks.
Violent, how exactly? It's a contest scored on points where ramming gets a penalty.
The Vice article said they had 6 months to build their robots. Nope, 6 weeks.
Empirical data based on repeatable science just doesn't have that 'feel good' ring to it. The USG seems to prefer half-baked ideas based on trendy hypotheses that are difficult to prove out - especially when underfunded or outright blacklisted. Imagine trying to get a "butter is actually healthy for you" paper funded and peer-reviewed in 1980. As is frequently the case with government funded science, they get what we pay for.
Back in the day, I was taking an undergrad DB design course and asked the professor, "can you give an example of how tableau method is generalized in any commercial or open source DB program?" His response was, "why do you care, we study theory here.." CS academia is so stuck in the clouds of theory that the mere mention of a practical application for was reviled. Fast forward [mumble] years and it seems to be that way still.