I've met a lot of people with degrees that "felt" they were good programmers, admins, whatever. For straightforward work they were good, but for poop-hit-the-propeller situations or ones that required imagination they actually performed rather poorly.
On the other hand, those with "life experience" were good in high-stress situations and worked well as creative thinkers, but were often fairly horrible at stuff like code structure, documentation, and time management of multiple tasks.
In many cases, schooling doesn't teach you to be a good worker. People who can read books and pass tests may be good for drone-work but not for many real-life situations. Alternately, there are critical skills learned in school which often make those people work better in an environment where they interact with others.
Most of the real rockstars/aces I've met aren't formally trained. They're highly skilled, driven, but often also cowboys who don't work so well with others (or produce work that can be read by others). Who you hire depends on what you need: formal structure, team player, or quick get-it-done ACE. In larger groups, usually having one of the aces is good for when unexpected stuff crops up, but having the formally trained guys/gals is also important for building a structure where you'll get less of the "oh sh*t" moments.
no-ip was the second most popular dynamic-DNS site for malicious software
How popular are they overall as a DDNS provider, and how many legit VS malicious customers do they have? It may sound big if they've got 1,000,000 malicious DDNS sites, but not so much if it turns out that's less than half a percent portion of 10,000,000,000 overall sites and the rest are legit.
Because "global warming" was a fairly terrible name for it versus "climate change"
Some places will get hotter, yes, but it also disrupts the flow of air/clouds/etc so that - as we've experienced locally - we get some extremely hot days coupled with an usual amount of wetter/colder days as well. I'm in what's considered a semi-desert climate, but it's greener than ever because we're getting a *lot* more precipitation than I've ever seen before. For me, it's a positive thing since I'm not on a flood plain and the plants like it. The only drawback is the increased mosquitoes. On the other hand, other people are suffering from floods, pests/pestilence (increased bugs and/or bacterium that prefer heat+humidity), and a change in biodiversity that is having both beneficial and detrimental effects on the local wildlife.
Indeed, wasn't one of those games (Candy Crush or something like that?) actually tweaking the difficulty based on your likelyhood to pay VS quit the game? Essentially if it looked like you would pay for credits in a certain situation, it would make it happen. If it looked instead like you might give up and quit altogether, it made thing easier so you'd at least keep playing (and potentially pay again later).
First integrate a computer with a brain, to the point where it will control external (or attached prosthetic) devices as if they were native organs. Then integrate to the point where the brain can request information from a computer interface, like an attached dictionary Add a communications device of some sort. Internet-brain connection is probably never going to be a good idea though, just FYI. Now you've got an interface to organic intelligence. Next, start building things with little brains that don't require an existing human, etc. Programming isn't going to be much fun as you have the whole infant->adult thing, but perhaps you could work with "ratbots" or whatever on basic tasks. Figure out where the learning/memory is stored, transfer it from a working "ratbot" to a template chip. Alternately, this may come from longevity experiments where they attempt to offload organic human personalities from their original wetware.
If it's on a chip, it can be copied, so now you've got a template of an intelligent being. Re-use the base personality, but improve the electronics to the point where wetware isn't needed.
Did you look at the markets or companies these people worked for, or whether they were contracting? If not, then frankly you're being an idiot. There are plenty of reasons to have a series of short jobs. Contracting is an obvious reason, but also if you're in an area/market where there are a lot of startups, etc.
As somebody who has worked in various smaller companies, sometimes the reason for switching jobs is the current or imminent disappearance of said job. In one case the main client (whom my position was also tied fairly close to) left. In another, the company had a good product but real into financial issues. Another company I left after they started paying bills on a last-minute basis (writing on the wall), and yet another was basically a "I'll take this lower-paying rather uninteresting job because the last went under" interim position.
Of course, as I got older it was easier to find more lasting positions, but frankly the short stints each contributed a *LOT* to my experience. Each position had new challenges and knowledge I picked. They just weren't very reliable jobs.
In a era where the economy and job market has taken a kicking, you shouldn't be ruling out talent just because they've had a couple of short hops unless you consider the reasons behind them.
It doesn't know about that accident that happened 30 minutes ago
I'm not sure sure about this. In certain major cities I've driven (Canada mind, not the UK), my maps has been pretty good at flagging heavy-traffic areas as yellow or red. It might not know it's an accident, but it does seem to know where slowdowns are. Perhaps it's just basing data on prediction via time-of-day, or maybe they'll aggregating phone GPS/nav data and figuring out that "X devices have been stuck/slowed in this area for Y minutes".
Cars are potentially much faster than bicycles. In practice, a cyclist may reach typical vehicle speeds for downtown traffic, especially if there is congestion.
Ditto for Canada. I see stuff about this prof, and some stuff about "binary options" and insurance scams.
I'm guessing that it may have less to do with "right to be forgotten" and more that both "will" is a common word, and "broker scam" is close enough that it's getting that instead of "brooker"
Even when I say to only use "Will Brooker" it doesn't come up with this fellow though. Perhaps wherever you've posted such info just isn't somewhere that places high on Goog's search results.
Now *that* would be amusing. Dual-container encrypted volume. The easily cracked volume containing a few years worth of stuff collected from various shock sites. Heck, no need even for dual encryption. Just make it something with an attention-getting name with an easy password stored in a place that curious inlookers could be easily trolled...
Next time one of those "This is Microsoft, your PC is sending a virus" calls come through, I should share out a VM with one of these and a container marked "banking info 2014" and a password of "12345":-)
I've got an encrypted volume on my main box that's got stuff I'd rather not my family members/wife/friends get into. It's nothing illegal, and it's not something that would end in a divorce if she did see it, just a collection of stuff I'd rather not share with the world. Since I have people over for LAN parties and share out drives on occasion, making sure such files are in an encrypted container ensure that even if I accidentally gave them access to the wrong place, they won't be snooping around my stuff.
Given the number of personal stuff people accidentally share over P2P networks (e.g. sharing all of "My Documents" for windows users), having stuff in an encrypted file in a safe place isn't a terrible idea. If the police want to see it, bring a properly signed warrant and go ahead. They'll likely be entertained but nothing is going to end me up in a PMITAP.
I dunno, I've always equated "sport" with some physical activity. Certainly gaming can be a competition, but is it really a sport? Similar I've heard of chess tournaments referred to as competitions rather than as sports.
Actually, if people knew the *true* amount of data many of those companies have they'd likely be appalled, but it's really not that visible. Personally I'm happy for google to know what I'm searching for using their engine, and similarly willing to made a trade-off on facebook status updates etc. What's not cool - and less obvious - is all the "like" buttons and analytics scripts, apps, etc that are feeding them with people's every little action that brushes upon the online.
If you disparage someone for their religious beliefs, you are a bigot
A lot of people's beliefs are tied to their actions (no matter how contradictory to the actual theology it is). There's nothing wrong with having faith, just when it overrides common sense, facts, etc. People who believe that the earth is a few thousand years old, that homosexuality is a choice (and a sin), and those that revel in their own ignorance... I'll happily disparage them.
The little old lady - or even the middle-age man - who goes to church to pray for a better world and helps his/her neighbours... nothing to look down upon there.
Well, to be honest, it has gotten (quite a lot) better. Other than the minecraft/Java issue, problems with Pulse are somewhat more rare these days. I think this is mostly due to Pulse being rammed through by Ubuntu etc and thus pulse-compatible applications becoming more the norm.
A lot of things have potential tickets, actually having a significant number of them doled out is a different thing. We've laws against driving while using mobile devices. I do see the odd person pulled aside for (what I assume was) this. More often, I see people driving right past cops with phone-to-ear and no consequence. No ticket
Crossing against a signal? About a month ago some guy ran across the road when the cross-traffic had a green. The copy who was proceeding through actually slowed down and nearly stopped so that the guy could (illegally) cross, then proceeded on. No ticket
Cyclists are supposed to either move with traffic, or use designated bike lanes. Plenty of cyclists around here either pass vehicles on the shoulder to bull through intersections, or more commonly just drive on the sidewalk and blow through a crosswalk. I just about smoked one the other day. I can slow down and do a check for pedestrians just fine, but I'm not going to see some cyclist rolling downhill on the opposite sidewalk at high speed before I enter my turn. Bonus points for going sans helmet. Cyclists breaking the law: no ticket
Laws are *useless* unless enforced with some consistency. Even then you'll still have idiots who ignore them and cause accidents (but at least we should throw the book at those). Seriously, you shouldn't need to drive like an inconsiderate prick to get nailed, and even those often get less than they deserve. Plenty of repeat drunk drivers without licenses that should be in *jail* but that usually doesn't happen until somebody dies.
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I've met a lot of people with degrees that "felt" they were good programmers, admins, whatever. For straightforward work they were good, but for poop-hit-the-propeller situations or ones that required imagination they actually performed rather poorly.
On the other hand, those with "life experience" were good in high-stress situations and worked well as creative thinkers, but were often fairly horrible at stuff like code structure, documentation, and time management of multiple tasks.
In many cases, schooling doesn't teach you to be a good worker. People who can read books and pass tests may be good for drone-work but not for many real-life situations. Alternately, there are critical skills learned in school which often make those people work better in an environment where they interact with others.
Most of the real rockstars/aces I've met aren't formally trained. They're highly skilled, driven, but often also cowboys who don't work so well with others (or produce work that can be read by others). Who you hire depends on what you need: formal structure, team player, or quick get-it-done ACE. In larger groups, usually having one of the aces is good for when unexpected stuff crops up, but having the formally trained guys/gals is also important for building a structure where you'll get less of the "oh sh*t" moments.
no-ip was the second most popular dynamic-DNS site for malicious software
How popular are they overall as a DDNS provider, and how many legit VS malicious customers do they have? It may sound big if they've got 1,000,000 malicious DDNS sites, but not so much if it turns out that's less than half a percent portion of 10,000,000,000 overall sites and the rest are legit.
Because "global warming" was a fairly terrible name for it versus "climate change"
Some places will get hotter, yes, but it also disrupts the flow of air/clouds/etc so that - as we've experienced locally - we get some extremely hot days coupled with an usual amount of wetter/colder days as well. I'm in what's considered a semi-desert climate, but it's greener than ever because we're getting a *lot* more precipitation than I've ever seen before.
For me, it's a positive thing since I'm not on a flood plain and the plants like it. The only drawback is the increased mosquitoes.
On the other hand, other people are suffering from floods, pests/pestilence (increased bugs and/or bacterium that prefer heat+humidity), and a change in biodiversity that is having both beneficial and detrimental effects on the local wildlife.
Maps and navigation work fine for me. I haven't used the others, or at least I don't think I have (what's a fusion location detector?)
The only things I have had issues with are certain applications with DRM that don't like rooted devices, but that's not a Play issue.
WTF are you smoking? I've used phones with Cyanogenmod and custom ROM's etc for years and have no problems at all with the Play store.
Sounds like Amazon and Facebook are working from the same playbook.
Indeed, wasn't one of those games (Candy Crush or something like that?) actually tweaking the difficulty based on your likelyhood to pay VS quit the game? Essentially if it looked like you would pay for credits in a certain situation, it would make it happen. If it looked instead like you might give up and quit altogether, it made thing easier so you'd at least keep playing (and potentially pay again later).
First integrate a computer with a brain, to the point where it will control external (or attached prosthetic) devices as if they were native organs.
Then integrate to the point where the brain can request information from a computer interface, like an attached dictionary
Add a communications device of some sort. Internet-brain connection is probably never going to be a good idea though, just FYI.
Now you've got an interface to organic intelligence.
Next, start building things with little brains that don't require an existing human, etc. Programming isn't going to be much fun as you have the whole infant->adult thing, but perhaps you could work with "ratbots" or whatever on basic tasks.
Figure out where the learning/memory is stored, transfer it from a working "ratbot" to a template chip. Alternately, this may come from longevity experiments where they attempt to offload organic human personalities from their original wetware.
If it's on a chip, it can be copied, so now you've got a template of an intelligent being.
Re-use the base personality, but improve the electronics to the point where wetware isn't needed.
Now you've got AI.
Did you look at the markets or companies these people worked for, or whether they were contracting? If not, then frankly you're being an idiot.
There are plenty of reasons to have a series of short jobs. Contracting is an obvious reason, but also if you're in an area/market where there are a lot of startups, etc.
As somebody who has worked in various smaller companies, sometimes the reason for switching jobs is the current or imminent disappearance of said job. In one case the main client (whom my position was also tied fairly close to) left. In another, the company had a good product but real into financial issues. Another company I left after they started paying bills on a last-minute basis (writing on the wall), and yet another was basically a "I'll take this lower-paying rather uninteresting job because the last went under" interim position.
Of course, as I got older it was easier to find more lasting positions, but frankly the short stints each contributed a *LOT* to my experience. Each position had new challenges and knowledge I picked. They just weren't very reliable jobs.
In a era where the economy and job market has taken a kicking, you shouldn't be ruling out talent just because they've had a couple of short hops unless you consider the reasons behind them.
Anyone know where Goog gets this info? From some public traffic report, or by polling/interpreting data from local mobile devices?
It doesn't know about that accident that happened 30 minutes ago
I'm not sure sure about this. In certain major cities I've driven (Canada mind, not the UK), my maps has been pretty good at flagging heavy-traffic areas as yellow or red. It might not know it's an accident, but it does seem to know where slowdowns are. Perhaps it's just basing data on prediction via time-of-day, or maybe they'll aggregating phone GPS/nav data and figuring out that "X devices have been stuck/slowed in this area for Y minutes".
Cars are potentially much faster than bicycles. In practice, a cyclist may reach typical vehicle speeds for downtown traffic, especially if there is congestion.
Ditto for Canada. I see stuff about this prof, and some stuff about "binary options" and insurance scams.
I'm guessing that it may have less to do with "right to be forgotten" and more that both "will" is a common word, and "broker scam" is close enough that it's getting that instead of "brooker"
Even when I say to only use "Will Brooker" it doesn't come up with this fellow though. Perhaps wherever you've posted such info just isn't somewhere that places high on Goog's search results.
Now *that* would be amusing. Dual-container encrypted volume. The easily cracked volume containing a few years worth of stuff collected from various shock sites.
Heck, no need even for dual encryption. Just make it something with an attention-getting name with an easy password stored in a place that curious inlookers could be easily trolled...
Next time one of those "This is Microsoft, your PC is sending a virus" calls come through, I should share out a VM with one of these and a container marked "banking info 2014" and a password of "12345" :-)
I've got an encrypted volume on my main box that's got stuff I'd rather not my family members/wife/friends get into. It's nothing illegal, and it's not something that would end in a divorce if she did see it, just a collection of stuff I'd rather not share with the world. Since I have people over for LAN parties and share out drives on occasion, making sure such files are in an encrypted container ensure that even if I accidentally gave them access to the wrong place, they won't be snooping around my stuff.
Given the number of personal stuff people accidentally share over P2P networks (e.g. sharing all of "My Documents" for windows users), having stuff in an encrypted file in a safe place isn't a terrible idea. If the police want to see it, bring a properly signed warrant and go ahead. They'll likely be entertained but nothing is going to end me up in a PMITAP.
Really, though, they shouldn't be inviting their *regulators* to anything other than functions related to regulation.
Better make sure your DNS service provider, and domain registrar are similar in "safe" places then...
Except - based on what I've seen on existing flights - the real number was already non-0% anyhow.
I dunno, I've always equated "sport" with some physical activity. Certainly gaming can be a competition, but is it really a sport? Similar I've heard of chess tournaments referred to as competitions rather than as sports.
Actually, if people knew the *true* amount of data many of those companies have they'd likely be appalled, but it's really not that visible. Personally I'm happy for google to know what I'm searching for using their engine, and similarly willing to made a trade-off on facebook status updates etc.
What's not cool - and less obvious - is all the "like" buttons and analytics scripts, apps, etc that are feeding them with people's every little action that brushes upon the online.
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Only well muscled young men with washboard abs and manboob pecs get super powers
I thought the radiation made skinny dorks into super-strong he-men? Or does that only work if it's a bite by an irradiated spider?
If you disparage someone for their religious beliefs, you are a bigot
A lot of people's beliefs are tied to their actions (no matter how contradictory to the actual theology it is). There's nothing wrong with having faith, just when it overrides common sense, facts, etc.
People who believe that the earth is a few thousand years old, that homosexuality is a choice (and a sin), and those that revel in their own ignorance... I'll happily disparage them.
The little old lady - or even the middle-age man - who goes to church to pray for a better world and helps his/her neighbours... nothing to look down upon there.
Well, to be honest, it has gotten (quite a lot) better. Other than the minecraft/Java issue, problems with Pulse are somewhat more rare these days. I think this is mostly due to Pulse being rammed through by Ubuntu etc and thus pulse-compatible applications becoming more the norm.
it's a ticket if
A lot of things have potential tickets, actually having a significant number of them doled out is a different thing. We've laws against driving while using mobile devices. I do see the odd person pulled aside for (what I assume was) this. More often, I see people driving right past cops with phone-to-ear and no consequence. No ticket
Crossing against a signal? About a month ago some guy ran across the road when the cross-traffic had a green. The copy who was proceeding through actually slowed down and nearly stopped so that the guy could (illegally) cross, then proceeded on. No ticket
Cyclists are supposed to either move with traffic, or use designated bike lanes. Plenty of cyclists around here either pass vehicles on the shoulder to bull through intersections, or more commonly just drive on the sidewalk and blow through a crosswalk. I just about smoked one the other day. I can slow down and do a check for pedestrians just fine, but I'm not going to see some cyclist rolling downhill on the opposite sidewalk at high speed before I enter my turn. Bonus points for going sans helmet. Cyclists breaking the law: no ticket
Laws are *useless* unless enforced with some consistency. Even then you'll still have idiots who ignore them and cause accidents (but at least we should throw the book at those). Seriously, you shouldn't need to drive like an inconsiderate prick to get nailed, and even those often get less than they deserve. Plenty of repeat drunk drivers without licenses that should be in *jail* but that usually doesn't happen until somebody dies.