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  1. Re:Bring puzzles as an applicant on Are Brain Teasers Good Hiring Criteria? · · Score: 1

    That may be just the best position for him. If your companies has any employee, hiring is one of the most important tasks for it (at the same level as marketing).

  2. Re:Well, they're a good indicator of intelligence on Are Brain Teasers Good Hiring Criteria? · · Score: 2

    And when they ask me to engage in meaningless work so they can judge me, I tell them they're welcome to judge my portfolio, but if they want me to start problem solving, the meaningless of the task is irrelevant... they're still going to have to pay for it.

    So, you refuse to answer the one question that correctly evaluate your technical habilities? How do you expect the employer to discover if you are good or not? Most of the times a portifolio just isn't good enough.

  3. Re:Well, they're a good indicator of intelligence on Are Brain Teasers Good Hiring Criteria? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Plans != drive

    But HR drones won't ever think about that. Sometimes smart people ask that question, but let's be honest here, most of the times it is asked just because it is on the "script", and the interviewer can't think for himself.

  4. Re:Well, they're a good indicator of intelligence on Are Brain Teasers Good Hiring Criteria? · · Score: 1

    That should be a great way of avoiding the Peter Principle, but are pay levels equivalent? Normaly they aren't, so companies are again at ground stage.

  5. Re:Well, they're a good indicator of intelligence on Are Brain Teasers Good Hiring Criteria? · · Score: 1

    When searching for an MBA, you'd better select for habilities that are rare, but important, instead of ones that are nearly universal, but not as important. If you select people that can think, instead of selecting the ones that can BS, you'll end with a much better team. Even when selecting MBAs.

    Also, MBA speack is getting old... People just don't trust it anymore.

  6. Not exactly "atomic level" on Ohm's Law Survives To the Atomic Level · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The wires are composed of doped silicon, and features of doped silicon are at least several atoms big. It may be made of bunch of atoms of dopants, but they are embebed on a crystal dozens of atoms wide. Also, the wires ccertanly an't work without those dozens of atoms, and another wire can't be as close to share some of those atoms without being connected. For all practical porposes, the wire is dozens of atoms wide.

    Why can't /. just anounce a semiconductor breakthrough for what it is? "Smaler wire made of silicon" would make it, for exemple.

    And, by the way, Ohm's law holds at the atomic level as well as it holds for big conductors. People learned that by studying organic conductors ages ago. The problem is how to make silicon work the same way. That is what TFA seems to be about (don't really know because it is behind a pay wall).

  7. Re:But will... on Ohm's Law Survives To the Atomic Level · · Score: 1

    It is doped silicon, like nearly any semiconductor out there, so it won't face the problems of increasing the number of steps and different substances in fabs.

    But it is still a very precise fabrication. Big fabs aren't up to the task, so expect at least a decade before that gets mainstream.

  8. Sorry, but no on Windows 8 To Include Built-in Reset, Refresh · · Score: 1

    If it works like Android, crapware is included.

  9. Re:Borg Gates on Windows 8 To Include Built-in Reset, Refresh · · Score: 1

    He retired, and /. retired the logo.

    But they ould have replaced it by something better.

  10. Re:Where, EXACTLY where they be putting these on Windows 8 To Include Built-in Reset, Refresh · · Score: 1

    Android has it, and probably iOS too.

    It comes as a need-to-have feature once you start locking everything into DRM.

  11. Re:Interesting, but.... on Windows 8 To Include Built-in Reset, Refresh · · Score: 1

    Thus standard OS permissoins can keep the recovery image safe (priviledge escalation bugs notwithstanding).

    Yes, except for everything that could corupt the media, it should be safe. By the way, if OS permissions could keep it safe, you wouldn't need to reinstall the OS.

    The image can be verified using the public key, if it fails, the recovery fails.

    Except if the same bugs that corrupted the image also corrupted the public key. If you are arguing for Safe Boot, yes, it could be used like that, but no, MS won't have you best interest in mind when working the details, so it won't do that well.

  12. Re:Just an excuse on Windows 8 To Include Built-in Reset, Refresh · · Score: 1

    There are some top level keys in the register. One of those is something like HKEY_MACHINE_CURRENT_USER. That one keeps data of the current user, and he has write acces to it.

  13. Re:Did not work for me on Windows 8 To Include Built-in Reset, Refresh · · Score: 1

    1 - Boot Linux in a live CD or pen drive
    2 - Mount external or network drive where you want to make the copy
    3 - cat /dev/sda | gzip > /mnt/external-drive/windows-image.gz
    4 - ????
    5 - Profit

    Of course, that assumes you don't operate in a "MS Shop", and can use real tools.

  14. Re:Rewrite that as "US threaten war with Spain" on US Threatens Spain For Not Implementing SOPA-Like Law · · Score: 1

    See, the worst thing about not talking on your fisrt language is that sometimes you are sure of the meaning of one word, just to discover you were thinking about another one that is quite near, but different.

    Or, in other words, forget it, my post was wrong. Very wrong.

  15. Re:IIS still wins on Nginx Overtakes Microsoft As No. 2 Web Server · · Score: 1

    Yes, and saving time for not having to deal with the Microsoft's support channel available... That kind of things.

  16. Re:Quality on Nginx Overtakes Microsoft As No. 2 Web Server · · Score: 1

    If you want to make a reverse proxy, Nginx is the way to go.

    But unfortunately, most software that people want to speed-up with a reverse proxy are of bad quality. If it wasn't, it would also probably be fast and wouldn't need that proxy.

  17. Re:IIS still wins on Nginx Overtakes Microsoft As No. 2 Web Server · · Score: 1

    Yes, by not using IIS you save way more than the licesing.

  18. Re:Free2play in games... on Why Freemium Doesn't Work · · Score: 1

    Name a single software company that has been "devastated" by Open Source? As opposed to, say, failing to adapt their business model to a changing world, and increased competition from others?

    What is the difference?

  19. Re:Why does Iran deny having a nuclear programme? on EU Moves To Ban Iran Crude Oil · · Score: 4, Informative

    UN inspectors were being denied access to numerous facilities

    So was in Brazil. You can't just send your spies to look at everything in every country witht he guise of working for the UN. After both sides agreed on a "looking" methodology, the inspectors were permited in. In both of those countries.

    When the US invaded Iraq, the UN inspectors had access to all the countries infrastructure.

  20. Rewrite that as "US threaten war with Spain" on US Threatens Spain For Not Implementing SOPA-Like Law · · Score: 4, Informative

    As a comercial embargo is an act of war, the replaced headline would be acurate. Remember that the US is still discussing if it should embargo Iran... Now compare to the decision about Spain.

    It seems like Spain needs a nuclear program.

  21. Re:Now do you understand on US Threatens Spain For Not Implementing SOPA-Like Law · · Score: 2

    If you only threatened countries to do things that are good for their populations, those populations wouldn't think you are a bully, and would laugh every time their media or government claims so.

    The reality is that rarely the US gets involved on the internals of another country to make its people better. But they get involved daily in things that makes other country's people worse.

  22. Re:Blocklisting allies over SOPA on US Threatens Spain For Not Implementing SOPA-Like Law · · Score: 1

    I guess that will build a nice reputation for the US gathering more alies (and keeping their present ones) while it enters a war with Iran.

    With that kind of posturing, people will think twice before choosing if they cooperate with the US or China...

  23. Re:teachers' unions on Teachers Resist High-tech Push In Idaho Schools · · Score: 1

    Or a doctor whining that it was unreasonable to expect him to use MRI scanners, because he hasn't had the training?

    Oh, they don't have to whine. They don't even have to refuse. Docotors simply don't pursuit working with MRI scanners when they think they aren't able, and don't try to prove that they are.

    Well, it does not take anything from your point. Just the analogy was a bad one.

  24. Re:Tech for the sake of tech. on Teachers Resist High-tech Push In Idaho Schools · · Score: 1

    That insight is quite a bit more general than what you state. The quality of anything is not a result of the amount you spend on it.

    That is just more accentuated on governments, but is a general truth.

  25. Re:Web-specific suggestion(s) on Ask Slashdot: Writing Hardened Web Applications? · · Score: 1

    Session ID doesn't need to be in the URL. As you said, it can go to cookie, so as to not polute the URL.

    It is better to keep in the URL just the information you need for selecting what you'll display, so it stays a resource locator. Session information is not one of those. Putting session ID on links or bookmarks disrupt some things (caching for example).