I don't believe so BUT what they are selling is a certain lack of online anonymity. If the person they sold the cert to IS a crook then you now know where to find them.
Anyway... my favorite thing to talk about these days: Being that I work for a company in the business of selling security you get a pretty clear picture very fast that all security is a false sense of security. At that point you can either go hide yourself in a bunker somewhere in your tin-foil hat OR you can come to terms. Given my choice of the latter I get fairly annoyed with people who get upset when their false sense of security isn't holding up. (Especially when they start adding more layers of false security that make my life more difficult)
Sad state of our times when people are ever eager to give up their freedoms in exchange for a poorly orchestrated illusion.
Sure. Great point and quite interesting. The problem is that it doesn't apply here.
Google did not employ these people. These were companies that Google stopped doing business with. As long as Google didn't have some long term binding contract that ceasing business violates they are not 'legally' responsible for the employees that these companies can no longer afford to pay because they don't have Google's business.
This article doesn't go into detail but I believe, even in China, it is OK to cease employment if your company goes under which is exactly what is going to happen to these companies since their business model was so flawed as to depend on a sole customer anyway. Whether the "in China" factor means that there are more severe ramifications for the terrible CEOs that run these organizations is another matter.
My first language was C++ taught to me by a C developer. From talking to my peers in other classes/schools it became very clear early on that aside from basic OO we really didn't learn much ++. That being said the language that gave me that "I get it" feeling was actually Java. I'm not saying Java doesn't have it's issues (especially back then w/ Java 1.0) but WAY too often with C++ I would write an algorithm that was syntactically correct only to find out that due to some issue in the compiler or some quirk in the language it wouldn't work. With Java, when I reason out an algorithm it actually does what I think it should do.
These days I write code in whatever language is called for by the project at hand. When given a choice I tend to write Java but that's more of a comfort level than anything... someday I'll have some spare time to revisit C++ and see how much it has changed / I have changed.
Excuse me? Please do not relate any of Minnesota's Values to Michelle Bachmann. She is the worst kind of politician who has no intelligence what-so-ever. She continues to be elected by an extremely gerrymandered district that has had no real competition on the right and wouldn't elect someone from the left unless literally directly paid to do so. Minnesota aside, any words that come from her mouth have a tendency to be as hollow as her head and can not be trusted. She is an agitator and a crowd pleaser who we can only hope will somehow manage to lose an election so she can go wallow with her tea party friends somewhere outside of our state. She may make her direct electors proud but the rest (majority) of the state laughs at them and are embarrassed to be represented by her.
Personally I'd tell this guy to put down the DS and go play disc golf (or regular golf for that matter) as a vast majority of the better courses are designed to challenge your typical righty's curve making them easier for a lefty to play with lower skill.
The only solid argument I've seen for this being not lefty-friendly is your 'partially obscure one of the screens' statement and frankly that is far from an argument for impossible... if anything a mild impediment.
In High School I burned the skin off of my right hand. For 2 months I couldn't use it for *anything* (at least not without a boat load of pain) That was the 2 months when our local bowling alley (wholesome fun for us highschoolers) had quarter and then fifty cent bowling (unlimited games.. that much each) I taught myself to bowl left handed and yes.. it was a challenge at first but within a few days I was getting back up to my average as a righty. During this time I was also driving a stick shifting with my left hand. Both of these seem like significantly more of a challenge than not being able to see a part of the screen not even essential for playing this simple video game.
Life is too easy for too many people... we need us some Armageddon to show what hard is.
I'm guessing a little read-between-the-lines would apply here. Around the time this guy 'retired' the markets were a gold mine and life was grand. Throw a dot-com bubble burst (which he probably was heavily invested in given his background) and the more recent financial markets explosion and I bet his retirement fund went and disintegrated on him. The dude probably *really needs a job right now.
Yeah... if you're in to pumping poisons into your bod. I've been a migraine sufferer for 25 years. It sucks and yes I'd do quite a lot for the luxury of them going away.
I also am a recovered botulism victim. I spent over a month in the hospital paralyzed eating / etc through tubes. It is a nasty substance and very much not good for you.
The reason cosmetic use is down? Have you not seen the cases that started popping up of people having their injected botox 'getting loose' so-to-speak and giving them botulism symptoms? Why the heck would I take *that risk.
Honestly since I recently started taking medicine for hypertension I've gone from a 6-migraine average a month to 1 in 2-months and you have no idea how happy that makes me but inject botox? never.
Back on the topic of this article: funny thing about pot.. if they were to legalize medical in MN I'd easily be able to get a card due to my migraines. The funny part is if I smoke when I have a migraine it actually makes the migraine worse. damn.
Not really flame bait just uninformed. I don't have a pile of statistics for you but if all of the tattoos you've seen look bad and fade over time you either spend a lot of time around prisons or have terrible tattoo artists in the neighborhood. Almost every friend I have has at least one tattoo. Many have entire sleeves or full body. They all looked great new. Yes, some have faded, but they are in the minority.
Tattoo longevity depends on a number of factors. The one you can't really control is that some people's skin just doesn't hold ink well. They can take *really* good care and it might last a while but it's a losing battle. then there are people like me who I can get my tattoo sunburned, etc and it never changes (and I even have some of the more difficult to maintain colors like Yellow) Most people fall in the middle. Use sunscreen and you'll be fine.
The not-interesting and trashy comments? Those may be flame bait but frankly that's just your taste which completely differs from just about everyone I know ergo your opinion doesn't have any weight for me.
...and why is this modded "Interesting"? I would say flame-bait. Especially since the laws created and signed by the Legislative and Executive are being abused by the Judicial not the other way around... Consider me baited: I live in MN which is so Democratic we had to invent our own Democratic party (the DFL) and are the only state that voted for Mondale.
What's happening here? time, and time, and time again MN's courts uphold our constitutionally protected rights.
I might mention that it is a completely conservative state that is currently re-writing history to be more pro-american. Is that the Hope and Change you were looking for?
Leave that same set of tabs open over night and THEN check your memory usage. I didn't leave FireFox for it's startup foot-print. I left it for the memory leak (to be honest: Flash is mostly at fault) AND its poor sand-boxing (Read: inability to cleanly handle the flash plugin when it gets out of control)
Chrome is where I've gone and to be honest, like anything, it isn't perfect (especially a few current BIG site incompatibilities) but the first time it told me Flash was running rampant and let me dispose of *just the plugin* not anything around it (vs. FireFox which just crashed... boom gone) I fell in love.
Along with the fact the article makes no mention of SP3, Windows XP was NOT a replacement for Win2K. Windows had (and is continuing to preserve) 2 separate tracks: 3 -> 95 -> 98 -> Me -> XP -> Vista -> 7 NT -> 2000 -> 2003 -> 2008 -> 2008R2
The fact they have consolidated the core (as of Vista/2008 as I recall) aside, the repeated mention of the 2000->XP lineage in the article is extremely poor reporting.
Completely agree although I would even shorten your list...
I loved McAfee when it was a simple tool that I could use when needed to clean out some nasty infection. These days it is WAY worse than what it is there to prevent. (I spent a while on tech support with them a few years back trying to get the answer to this simple question "How do I uninstall ALL of the automated tools without preventing me from running a scan or clean manually?" It took them over an hour to come up with the answer that it was impossible with recent versions of the software.
On the extremely rare occasion I need to actually clean a machine (usually some friend's box) I've actually been using M$'s online tools and they do the job without putting the suck on the host. MSRT is even handy if you need to clean without a 'net' just not as comprehensive.
Because speed limits are arbitrary rules put in place by "the man" to keep me down. Every time I speed it is my own social protest against the nanny state.
Speed doesn't kill people, stupid drivers kill people. Great example!
I've had to have transactions purged from my card a number of times... once stolen... a few times just stupid hotels double billing me 4-figure hotel bills.. and others.
Wells Fargo got me my money back immediately on claim (with restrictions) and within a week for real (once they had investigated).
No bank is perfect but for a large one I'm generally happy with the wagon.. of course don't get me started on over-draft fees:)
That should be exactly right... their portion of that 15% market share was probably not justifying the resources needed to support the additional architecture.
I'm guessing they get to lay off some really expensive Itanium knowledge base from their core dev teams as well as all the other baggage necessary for release/support of the ports. Those guys are really hoping there's room for hire on the HP-UX team now:)
Disclaimer on the "taking an IT position" side. That can help or hurt you. I have examples of both on my resume:
1) GOOD: Summer tween Junior and Senior year I took a job at a tech firm near home. It was supposed to be 1st level phone support (mostly to pay the bills while not working with food or retail). During the training week my basic skills as a programmer and some language skills got me out of the pool and working on testing a German Language version of our product. Very quickly I was creating their formal QA department and also working as a liaison between the dev team and the support team. This was fantastic experience to have on a resume.
2) I have been working with computers since I was able to reach the keyboard and so can pretty much manage anything you put in front of me and get it working correctly. Post graduation I got into an IT department at the college my Mom worked at to pay the bills while I was searching for my first "real" dev job. This accomplished that goal BUT I spent 5 months trying to explain to recruiters and HR people that I had no desire to apply for their systems engineering position.. (I had one company actually bring me in.. I spent about 5 minutes with a developer before I was called into the hiring managers office saying "So we're really not looking for another developer right now but we have this 3rd shift job managing a 5-9s uptime system that we really want you for." I thanked them for their time and walked out.
I'm not saying this isn't a bad way to pay the bills and if you get an IT job at a dev firm you may just get the opportunity to move sideways if they like you as a worker and you can find some way to demonstrate your coding ability to them (RARE!!) but if you do you may want to consider having a SE vs. Dev resume to keep them separate. Follow everyone else's suggestions on here and while you are paying the bills fixing computers, work for free on open source/etc projects that will be your "real" resume content.
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I know there is no level higher than 5... but can the parent be modded up to 6 please?
Unions have their place....and that place is as far from me and my employment as possible.
I don't believe so BUT what they are selling is a certain lack of online anonymity. If the person they sold the cert to IS a crook then you now know where to find them.
Anyway... my favorite thing to talk about these days: Being that I work for a company in the business of selling security you get a pretty clear picture very fast that all security is a false sense of security. At that point you can either go hide yourself in a bunker somewhere in your tin-foil hat OR you can come to terms. Given my choice of the latter I get fairly annoyed with people who get upset when their false sense of security isn't holding up. (Especially when they start adding more layers of false security that make my life more difficult)
Sad state of our times when people are ever eager to give up their freedoms in exchange for a poorly orchestrated illusion.
Sure. Great point and quite interesting. The problem is that it doesn't apply here.
Google did not employ these people. These were companies that Google stopped doing business with. As long as Google didn't have some long term binding contract that ceasing business violates they are not 'legally' responsible for the employees that these companies can no longer afford to pay because they don't have Google's business.
This article doesn't go into detail but I believe, even in China, it is OK to cease employment if your company goes under which is exactly what is going to happen to these companies since their business model was so flawed as to depend on a sole customer anyway. Whether the "in China" factor means that there are more severe ramifications for the terrible CEOs that run these organizations is another matter.
My first language was C++ taught to me by a C developer. From talking to my peers in other classes/schools it became very clear early on that aside from basic OO we really didn't learn much ++. That being said the language that gave me that "I get it" feeling was actually Java. I'm not saying Java doesn't have it's issues (especially back then w/ Java 1.0) but WAY too often with C++ I would write an algorithm that was syntactically correct only to find out that due to some issue in the compiler or some quirk in the language it wouldn't work. With Java, when I reason out an algorithm it actually does what I think it should do.
These days I write code in whatever language is called for by the project at hand. When given a choice I tend to write Java but that's more of a comfort level than anything... someday I'll have some spare time to revisit C++ and see how much it has changed / I have changed.
Excuse me? Please do not relate any of Minnesota's Values to Michelle Bachmann. She is the worst kind of politician who has no intelligence what-so-ever. She continues to be elected by an extremely gerrymandered district that has had no real competition on the right and wouldn't elect someone from the left unless literally directly paid to do so. Minnesota aside, any words that come from her mouth have a tendency to be as hollow as her head and can not be trusted. She is an agitator and a crowd pleaser who we can only hope will somehow manage to lose an election so she can go wallow with her tea party friends somewhere outside of our state. She may make her direct electors proud but the rest (majority) of the state laughs at them and are embarrassed to be represented by her.
Google does a piss poor job of centering their maps on location...
Kiribati is there and labeled tho (and not *that far from when Google puts you and so far zoomed out you can't see the islands anyway)
1.877639,-157.40593
That should help.
Personally I'd tell this guy to put down the DS and go play disc golf (or regular golf for that matter) as a vast majority of the better courses are designed to challenge your typical righty's curve making them easier for a lefty to play with lower skill.
The only solid argument I've seen for this being not lefty-friendly is your 'partially obscure one of the screens' statement and frankly that is far from an argument for impossible... if anything a mild impediment.
In High School I burned the skin off of my right hand. For 2 months I couldn't use it for *anything* (at least not without a boat load of pain) That was the 2 months when our local bowling alley (wholesome fun for us highschoolers) had quarter and then fifty cent bowling (unlimited games.. that much each) I taught myself to bowl left handed and yes.. it was a challenge at first but within a few days I was getting back up to my average as a righty. During this time I was also driving a stick shifting with my left hand. Both of these seem like significantly more of a challenge than not being able to see a part of the screen not even essential for playing this simple video game.
Life is too easy for too many people... we need us some Armageddon to show what hard is.
I definitely need not be reading \. I spend WAY too much of my time reading /. as it is.
That's exactly what the conspiracy would WANT you to say...
I'm guessing a little read-between-the-lines would apply here. Around the time this guy 'retired' the markets were a gold mine and life was grand. Throw a dot-com bubble burst (which he probably was heavily invested in given his background) and the more recent financial markets explosion and I bet his retirement fund went and disintegrated on him. The dude probably *really needs a job right now.
Your Mom is "undeniable"
She's hot too!
Yeah... if you're in to pumping poisons into your bod. I've been a migraine sufferer for 25 years. It sucks and yes I'd do quite a lot for the luxury of them going away.
I also am a recovered botulism victim. I spent over a month in the hospital paralyzed eating / etc through tubes. It is a nasty substance and very much not good for you.
The reason cosmetic use is down? Have you not seen the cases that started popping up of people having their injected botox 'getting loose' so-to-speak and giving them botulism symptoms? Why the heck would I take *that risk.
Honestly since I recently started taking medicine for hypertension I've gone from a 6-migraine average a month to 1 in 2-months and you have no idea how happy that makes me but inject botox? never.
Back on the topic of this article: funny thing about pot.. if they were to legalize medical in MN I'd easily be able to get a card due to my migraines. The funny part is if I smoke when I have a migraine it actually makes the migraine worse. damn.
The article was supposed to read:
"Attempt by NASA to map Earth's forests with lasers scorches entire tree population!"
News at 11...
Not really flame bait just uninformed. I don't have a pile of statistics for you but if all of the tattoos you've seen look bad and fade over time you either spend a lot of time around prisons or have terrible tattoo artists in the neighborhood. Almost every friend I have has at least one tattoo. Many have entire sleeves or full body. They all looked great new. Yes, some have faded, but they are in the minority.
Tattoo longevity depends on a number of factors. The one you can't really control is that some people's skin just doesn't hold ink well. They can take *really* good care and it might last a while but it's a losing battle. then there are people like me who I can get my tattoo sunburned, etc and it never changes (and I even have some of the more difficult to maintain colors like Yellow) Most people fall in the middle. Use sunscreen and you'll be fine.
The not-interesting and trashy comments? Those may be flame bait but frankly that's just your taste which completely differs from just about everyone I know ergo your opinion doesn't have any weight for me.
...and why is this modded "Interesting"? I would say flame-bait. Especially since the laws created and signed by the Legislative and Executive are being abused by the Judicial not the other way around... Consider me baited: I live in MN which is so Democratic we had to invent our own Democratic party (the DFL) and are the only state that voted for Mondale.
What's happening here? time, and time, and time again MN's courts uphold our constitutionally protected rights.
I might mention that it is a completely conservative state that is currently re-writing history to be more pro-american. Is that the Hope and Change you were looking for?
Leave that same set of tabs open over night and THEN check your memory usage. I didn't leave FireFox for it's startup foot-print. I left it for the memory leak (to be honest: Flash is mostly at fault) AND its poor sand-boxing (Read: inability to cleanly handle the flash plugin when it gets out of control)
Chrome is where I've gone and to be honest, like anything, it isn't perfect (especially a few current BIG site incompatibilities) but the first time it told me Flash was running rampant and let me dispose of *just the plugin* not anything around it (vs. FireFox which just crashed... boom gone) I fell in love.
Along with the fact the article makes no mention of SP3, Windows XP was NOT a replacement for Win2K. Windows had (and is continuing to preserve) 2 separate tracks:
3 -> 95 -> 98 -> Me -> XP -> Vista -> 7
NT -> 2000 -> 2003 -> 2008 -> 2008R2
The fact they have consolidated the core (as of Vista/2008 as I recall) aside, the repeated mention of the 2000->XP lineage in the article is extremely poor reporting.
RTFS: "senior manager for global communications and public affairs at Google"
Google is paying Kovacevich and well I presume.
Completely agree although I would even shorten your list...
I loved McAfee when it was a simple tool that I could use when needed to clean out some nasty infection. These days it is WAY worse than what it is there to prevent. (I spent a while on tech support with them a few years back trying to get the answer to this simple question "How do I uninstall ALL of the automated tools without preventing me from running a scan or clean manually?" It took them over an hour to come up with the answer that it was impossible with recent versions of the software.
On the extremely rare occasion I need to actually clean a machine (usually some friend's box) I've actually been using M$'s online tools and they do the job without putting the suck on the host. MSRT is even handy if you need to clean without a 'net' just not as comprehensive.
Why not just live in one (1:03 in)
Because speed limits are arbitrary rules put in place by "the man" to keep me down. Every time I speed it is my own social protest against the nanny state.
Speed doesn't kill people, stupid drivers kill people. Great example!
I've had to have transactions purged from my card a number of times... once stolen... a few times just stupid hotels double billing me 4-figure hotel bills.. and others.
Wells Fargo got me my money back immediately on claim (with restrictions) and within a week for real (once they had investigated).
No bank is perfect but for a large one I'm generally happy with the wagon.. of course don't get me started on over-draft fees :)
That should be exactly right... their portion of that 15% market share was probably not justifying the resources needed to support the additional architecture.
I'm guessing they get to lay off some really expensive Itanium knowledge base from their core dev teams as well as all the other baggage necessary for release/support of the ports. Those guys are really hoping there's room for hire on the HP-UX team now :)
SO... um... sweet. Salaries for my profession in my region are higher than the national average. Mine is even above that.
Combine that fact with your comment about inflation and what do you get?
I still hate my job.
Disclaimer on the "taking an IT position" side. That can help or hurt you. I have examples of both on my resume:
1) GOOD: Summer tween Junior and Senior year I took a job at a tech firm near home. It was supposed to be 1st level phone support (mostly to pay the bills while not working with food or retail). During the training week my basic skills as a programmer and some language skills got me out of the pool and working on testing a German Language version of our product. Very quickly I was creating their formal QA department and also working as a liaison between the dev team and the support team. This was fantastic experience to have on a resume.
2) I have been working with computers since I was able to reach the keyboard and so can pretty much manage anything you put in front of me and get it working correctly. Post graduation I got into an IT department at the college my Mom worked at to pay the bills while I was searching for my first "real" dev job. This accomplished that goal BUT I spent 5 months trying to explain to recruiters and HR people that I had no desire to apply for their systems engineering position.. (I had one company actually bring me in.. I spent about 5 minutes with a developer before I was called into the hiring managers office saying "So we're really not looking for another developer right now but we have this 3rd shift job managing a 5-9s uptime system that we really want you for." I thanked them for their time and walked out.
I'm not saying this isn't a bad way to pay the bills and if you get an IT job at a dev firm you may just get the opportunity to move sideways if they like you as a worker and you can find some way to demonstrate your coding ability to them (RARE!!) but if you do you may want to consider having a SE vs. Dev resume to keep them separate. Follow everyone else's suggestions on here and while you are paying the bills fixing computers, work for free on open source/etc projects that will be your "real" resume content.