Microsoft and the EU clashed on a large number of topics related to whether or not Microsoft had a PC monopoly (before Apple's revival) and whether Microsoft used its monopoly position to unfairly eliminate competition. One of the major results of this struggle was Microsoft having to offer consumers a choice of browser (i.e. not just IE), a result that contributed to Google's rise because Google was the default search engine on most other browsers.
Today the EU and Google are clashing on a large number of topics related to whether or not Google...
>> How exactly is it a scam? It didn't lie to you. It didn't say it was broken, out of paper, etc. It just said "please see register for receipt".
Because there's no "fuck off, just print my fucking receipt" button, and the machine certainly advertises its ability to print receipts without going into TFS.
Now that we all have phones for directions, the only reason anyone should ever visit the store is to use the free restroom. For extra convenience-store stink-eye, I frequently drive through one on my way to work, buy NOTHING, and dump whatever garbage I'm carrying (usually stuff purchased elsewhere) in their trash cans.
>> if you're able to access the communication wiring, you probably can just reach in and grab the strike wiring too and supply 24v to it to open the door
Hammer? Check. 3x 9V batteries in series? Check.
However, it's still more work than just tailgating someone with your arms full of lunch and a laptop...
"Data warehouses" and "big data" have all these problems. I remember a big data security talk where the conclusion was basically "well there's a handful of half-baked solutions for the biggest platforms, but no one actually uses them."
In my corporate experience, data warehouse and big data projects happen when an executive gets annoyed with the slow progress of IT and basically dumps out the contents of a few databases into an almost-impossible-to-secure bowl of soup. As a resident security guru I frequently developed a blind spot for these executive disasters: reporting or trying to audit them usually led to career pain.
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>> You could spend all day by the same watering hole with the best scientific instruments and come up with nothing
According to TFA, they DID spend all day by the same watering hole and ended up using the best scientific instruments (really fine filters) to make their discoveries.
>> It used to be that to find new forms of life, all you had to do was take a walk in the woods. Now it's not so simple.
And...if I'm following the TFA, this would still probably yield even more discoveries if a researcher used the same technique.
>> A quiet place to work >> Clear instruction about tasks. Vagueness does not work. >> No sudden surprises at the work place. >> Written instructions for work that requires a sequence of tasks. Provide a “pilot’s checklist.” >> Correct social mistakes in a clear, calm, direct manner. Hints do not work.
I'll bet 7 out of 10 developers would agree with Grandin's requirements for an autistic-friendly business environment.
>> 1) If your codebase is too big, it's going to limit who's going to be able to download your code. >> 2) There is no good reason in 2015 for a FOSS project to not have public source control. This helps people contribute and determine the health of your project based on the date of the last commit. >> 3) If your source control has no web viewer and/or no documentation, these two are obvious things to have >> 4) Code that doesn't build is worse than no code! You need documentation on how to build the project from the source. >> 5) Use build tools >> 6) Bundling is not going not be maintainable. Bundling leads to forking. >> 7) Forcing people to install only in a specific directory
My first thought on reading this is that this guy started coding this year. #1-3 is solved by using GitHub, TFS online or one of the popular choices most FOSS projects already seem to use. (e.g. How would an experienced developer get these problems in the first place?) #4-6 are entry-level build issues. #7 refers to a best practice (let people pick their install directory) that's been commonplace in the industry for at least 15 years.
I see he's employed by Red Hat. Does this list as news suggest that Red Hat's internal development processes are immature too?
>> causing the death of thousands of people abroad
If my background check showed that, I think I'd understand why I was not being hired.:) Stay with the thread (i.e., people get over minor offenses and cultural missteps - even ill-considered tattoos - all the time) and you'll be okay.
Disagree. It was unethical when I did it. It may not have been illegal yet, and our hospital system (privacy clueless in the era before HIPAA) never told the folks in IT NOT to pry around the databases, medical records or stacks of bills we produced, but poking around people's personal business was still was an unethical invasion of privacy. Fortunately, I've "grown ethics" in the 20-odd years since I was a teenager, and there are better legal and technical deterrents and preventatives to this type of thing now.
>> you're now on record for doing one of the most unethical things imaginable?
Our last three presidents collectively admitted to smoking pot, using cocaine, driving drunk, sleeping around, eating dog and more. Career-wise, I'll be fine.
I'd expect that it's the teenagers who are currently making racist comments on their Facebook feeds that can expect a lifetime of career-aborting revelations.
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>> Not only are its ingredients vegan
Who the f*** wants to drink pureed vegans?
If I'm going to get my liquid cannibal on, I want the taste of real hamburger-fed 'muricans!
>> "Firmworm"
You did NOT just introduce that to the Internet.
>> Rule 34
Oh yeah...I guess it's the reason we have Internet in the first place.
>> tape wrapped around its head that read "San Francisco or bust."
Option 2. Mission accomplished, right?
It's kind of funny this lands on a Friday in the middle of summer when it looks like most of the rest of the office is off.
>> ...lawyer...defending...drunks...Her industry may not exist in 20 years.
I have a feeling that attorneys will be able to legislate this threat away long before it reaches them.
>> I can go to the bar by myself and get hammered, and not worry about driving home.
And yet people on SlashDot wonder why many of us would still want our OWN cars in the age of automated driving.
>> internet is not in a country, it is it's own country
Hmmm...I guess you CAN buy weed before 8am.
>> I am failing to see how this relates
Microsoft and the EU clashed on a large number of topics related to whether or not Microsoft had a PC monopoly (before Apple's revival) and whether Microsoft used its monopoly position to unfairly eliminate competition. One of the major results of this struggle was Microsoft having to offer consumers a choice of browser (i.e. not just IE), a result that contributed to Google's rise because Google was the default search engine on most other browsers.
Today the EU and Google are clashing on a large number of topics related to whether or not Google...
>> While (X) may be the law in (place), it is not the law globally (therefore pound sand)
Wow. And techies thought Microsoft was arrogant when dealing with Europe in the 2000s.
More to the point: how do I get to be a multinational corporation so I can tell local authorities to fuck off too?
>> 'unprovoked physical attack' on a Top Gear producer
Let's see...driving around in awesome cars and smacking around random people. Isn't that already called "Grand Theft Auto?"
>> How exactly is it a scam? It didn't lie to you. It didn't say it was broken, out of paper, etc. It just said "please see register for receipt".
Because there's no "fuck off, just print my fucking receipt" button, and the machine certainly advertises its ability to print receipts without going into TFS.
Now that we all have phones for directions, the only reason anyone should ever visit the store is to use the free restroom. For extra convenience-store stink-eye, I frequently drive through one on my way to work, buy NOTHING, and dump whatever garbage I'm carrying (usually stuff purchased elsewhere) in their trash cans.
>> all today's valuables are in servers in the cloud
Hmmm...I'd check to see what's actually on your "local" cell phone then.
>> if you're able to access the communication wiring, you probably can just reach in and grab the strike wiring too and supply 24v to it to open the door
Hammer? Check.
3x 9V batteries in series? Check.
However, it's still more work than just tailgating someone with your arms full of lunch and a laptop...
>> giant database...never be hacked
"Data warehouses" and "big data" have all these problems. I remember a big data security talk where the conclusion was basically "well there's a handful of half-baked solutions for the biggest platforms, but no one actually uses them."
In my corporate experience, data warehouse and big data projects happen when an executive gets annoyed with the slow progress of IT and basically dumps out the contents of a few databases into an almost-impossible-to-secure bowl of soup. As a resident security guru I frequently developed a blind spot for these executive disasters: reporting or trying to audit them usually led to career pain.
>> bacteria responsible for the common cold
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I can't believe that "Scroll Lock" is used more often than "Caps Lock"
>> least popular keys are...Right Mouse Button
I'm guessing their "developers" don't actually use an IDE. Even on my Mac I use a two-button mouse just to get context-sensitive menus.
>>>> There has to be a better way to take down drones.
>> Sure, just toss a net over it.
With what - a drone?
>> You could spend all day by the same watering hole with the best scientific instruments and come up with nothing
According to TFA, they DID spend all day by the same watering hole and ended up using the best scientific instruments (really fine filters) to make their discoveries.
>> It used to be that to find new forms of life, all you had to do was take a walk in the woods. Now it's not so simple.
And...if I'm following the TFA, this would still probably yield even more discoveries if a researcher used the same technique.
>> U.S. military needed to accelerate often cumbersome acquisition processes to ensure that it stayed ahead of potential foes
Yes, yes! Open your wallets and support the complex! We cannot afford a LASER GAP to materialize so we must create that gap ourselves!
I hope they don't toss the editors out on the street!
>> A quiet place to work
>> Clear instruction about tasks. Vagueness does not work.
>> No sudden surprises at the work place.
>> Written instructions for work that requires a sequence of tasks. Provide a “pilot’s checklist.”
>> Correct social mistakes in a clear, calm, direct manner. Hints do not work.
I'll bet 7 out of 10 developers would agree with Grandin's requirements for an autistic-friendly business environment.
>> 1) If your codebase is too big, it's going to limit who's going to be able to download your code.
>> 2) There is no good reason in 2015 for a FOSS project to not have public source control. This helps people contribute and determine the health of your project based on the date of the last commit.
>> 3) If your source control has no web viewer and/or no documentation, these two are obvious things to have
>> 4) Code that doesn't build is worse than no code! You need documentation on how to build the project from the source.
>> 5) Use build tools
>> 6) Bundling is not going not be maintainable. Bundling leads to forking.
>> 7) Forcing people to install only in a specific directory
My first thought on reading this is that this guy started coding this year. #1-3 is solved by using GitHub, TFS online or one of the popular choices most FOSS projects already seem to use. (e.g. How would an experienced developer get these problems in the first place?) #4-6 are entry-level build issues. #7 refers to a best practice (let people pick their install directory) that's been commonplace in the industry for at least 15 years.
I see he's employed by Red Hat. Does this list as news suggest that Red Hat's internal development processes are immature too?
>> causing the death of thousands of people abroad
If my background check showed that, I think I'd understand why I was not being hired. :) Stay with the thread (i.e., people get over minor offenses and cultural missteps - even ill-considered tattoos - all the time) and you'll be okay.
>> It wasn't unethical when he did it.
Disagree. It was unethical when I did it. It may not have been illegal yet, and our hospital system (privacy clueless in the era before HIPAA) never told the folks in IT NOT to pry around the databases, medical records or stacks of bills we produced, but poking around people's personal business was still was an unethical invasion of privacy. Fortunately, I've "grown ethics" in the 20-odd years since I was a teenager, and there are better legal and technical deterrents and preventatives to this type of thing now.
>> you're now on record for doing one of the most unethical things imaginable?
Our last three presidents collectively admitted to smoking pot, using cocaine, driving drunk, sleeping around, eating dog and more. Career-wise, I'll be fine.
I'd expect that it's the teenagers who are currently making racist comments on their Facebook feeds that can expect a lifetime of career-aborting revelations.