Of course what you are immediately doing is, system administration which includes associated legal principles, psychology of users, network infrastructure, project management, procurement and distribution, is nothing trade compared to computer programming which is a university degree. Similarly keeping a nations infrastructure secure and a corporations infrastructure secure, the laws, hardware analysis, network transmission analysis, code analysis, is a trade compared to computer programming.
The reality is system administration and system security are a moving target which is much harder to teach, them a programming language that was popular two two years ago.
Get real, the cost of server licences is identical to the hardware it runs on (no sound, no video, no connectors beyond network connection). 1000 servers price doubled with 1000 server licences and then add CALS, your basically burning money for nothing.
It is really down to biology rather than technology, once games look just good enough and sound just good enough, compared to reality, you are stalled until you get a virtual substitute for reality.
Until virtual reality glasses are here, with high resolution images, consoles can at this point only really chase lower price rather than higher power.
The big convergence between what consumer PC's are capable of doing at a price and what consoles can do is coming closer and that console licence fee for software is a problem.
Good virtual reality is guaranteed to be expensive, the question is whether it will get here before consumer PC's kill the console (simply by being built into your next big screen TV).
A computer science degree has had it's day and is long overdue for a revamp. Really computer programming , computer systems administration and computer security should all be separate degrees. That lump sum approach barely covers what are becoming far more important and complex parts of computer systems infrastructure.
Computer science degrees are struggling for relevancy because they are just too general, too out of date (changes in computer systems are hard to keep up with) and barely touch on far more currently relevant areas.
Of course secret Swiss bank accounts for corrupt Nazi officials had nothing to do with Germany not attacking Switzerland. Sociopath autocrats take a very dim view of the value of their soldiers, sending them to die on a whim in their thousands, in fact they blame them for getting wounded.
So does every one think there were no tax cheats in the upper echelons of the Nazi party. No just in case, let's hide some dead person gold for an emergency, no completely corrupt financial dealings that would inflate profits based upon who gets attacked when and no personal bonuses for siding with a foreign power when it is profitable to do so.
Switzerland's highly profitable neutrality had more than meets the eye behind it. A country that has profited upon the suffering of others by being the bankers of criminals of every description for quite a long time
Obviously you missed the bit 'millions of accounts' and yes that does cost a huge whack of money in terms of hardware and windows server licences.
Obviously if you are looking at that many 'hoped for' clients, you applications should be operating system neutral, so that you can readily farm out the hosting to reliable and competitive companies what ever operating system they are running.
Once 'sustainable' account numbers justify it with demonstrated cash flow, use that cash flow to build up an in house server system using what ever OS proves most cost competitive at that time, hard to beat free versus thousands of licences to cover concurrent users.
Of course if you resolve what was hoped for hope no longer exists hence to retain hope you can never provide what was hoped for. As for change, well, there has been a colour change ('er',from red to blue) and, there has been an intellectual change (from puppet dope to smart ass). You just really need to look at 'hope and change' from the viewpoint of a marketing agency lawyer.
As long as the US public are going to act like a bunch of rabbits at night staring down the highway at the bright shiny promise of consumer paradise approaching them they are going to keep getting whacked in the head by that limo's bumper as it drives straight over them.
The patriot act is looking more like the means by which the rich and greedy will protect themselves from their victims, than anything to do with bogey man terrorists or their acting doubles.
There is likely a lot of VB6 in 'Visual Basic for Applications' hence one department vetoed the other departments actions because it would likely impact macro lock in, a very popular 'it's just too hard to change office suites' tactic.
Let's be honest these changes to the law are more likely to do with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pine_Gap and as a 'er' partnership, the uses and abuses the US put it to, also drag in the Australia government.
Perhaps the US is taking a step back from 'for profit' contractor intelligence which tends to fulfill the need of generating more profit for the contractor than having anything to do with the truth, to seeking aligned intelligence partnerships.
Of course there is also, how exactly do you word keeping a eye on foreign computer and software corporations owned by or with strong ties to their government. When say a foreign government seeks via it's connections with regional corporations to insert say 'Trojans' in hardware of software, to enable all sorts of nefarious activities and sometimes these activities can be derailed for private for profit purposes.
It could all be pressure from the Android/Chrome world creeping into Linux GUI landscape.
Lateral thinking would be to start openly reviewing what really works in Android/Chrome and start shifting what can be shifted to Linux/Gnome/KDE.
Thta is the whole principle of open source and creating choice, whilst allowing for forks and feature mergers.
Android/Chrome will have an impact on Linux distributions not a severe as the impact on windows (slow creeping death) but more GUI, feature set and, some core functionality. Interesting times coming up for the desktop and consumer computer devices.
WTF, the role of a police force is to arrest people not put them down and make sure they stay down, It seems like the term 'Law Enforcement' has gone straight to the heads of many US police forces. Just a reminder the police assist the the public in upholding the law and the courts and only the courts 'enforce' the law.
A gun and a badge does not make a police officer, judge jury and executioner, well, at least it should not. Your comment seems to indicate US police forces seriously need to rethink their 'modus operandi'.
For clarification of bill of rights in Australia read this http://www.aph.gov.au/Library/pubs/rn/2001-02/02rn42.htm. So the specific concern is a bill of rights limits rights, rather than rights being unlimited until legally contested and put before state and federal governments. Apart from 'implied freedom of political communication' and of course constitutional freedom of religion, both of which can of course be stretched to infinity with regards to freedom of speech.
The truth, collecting sales taxes for fifty states will mean that one of Amazons many already employed tax avoidance accountants will need to look up fifty states tax laws and add an entry into a database.
Even if this person is on their deathbed and breathing through and iron lung and is required to use nose movements to navigate the web, we'll assume it takes them fifty days, one day per state.
Another person will be required to make a 'one time change' change to Amazons B$ one click patented sales system to add a sales tax charge for the delivery address, shit, they can patent that too, one click sales tax calculation.
Bezos had a tax holiday price advantage, it's now gone, suck it up and get over it. PS price to customer is the end price, customers wont be paying more, Amazons profit margin will be forced to shrink (not at first Bezos is bound to carry on like a dick but eventually as sales drop).
You missed the bit about comments regarding any setting in a textfile.So the truth about windows reg edits.
a) Find fault can't do anything about it until the registry key is uncovered by a paid microsoftie out of the thousands available and the change will only affect the desired service and not impact other services, with random crash connections to that key.
b) wait
c) wait
d) wait
e) wait ad nauseam (when did windows 7 come out hmm)
f) abandon all pretences of system security open registry and edit as instructed and hope for the best with no real explanation of what changes are really being made and why that service is running at all.
g) Install the next windows security update and find the registry key has been changed back and you now need to make three changes to the registry to make it stick, maybe and that is of course after waiting three months for someone to come up with the sollution.
Oh get bent. When it is a criminal offence with up to fifteen years imprisonment what else can they do. Any lying, overweening, egotistical freak, who thinks it could be a criminal offence when other people's opinions differ with his grossly over inflated view of himself has to be some real low life ass hat.
Nothing ever excludes an individual from taking a proper moral stance about any issue. Clearly this issue, monarchy an anachronistic political deciet based upon centuries of torturing to death dissent and in this case imprisonment for, oh no, hurting the feelings of an asshat, are the opposite of democracy and freedom.
As for 'everyone' loves the monarchy, are you bloody joking, deluded or just a Thai monarchist propagandist. My opinion, anyone who hides behind a crap law like this, is a cowardly, gutless, disingenuous, ego inflated, narcissistic freak, with delusions of grandeur and a pomposity that could only be achieved with mental genetic faults resulting from inbreeding taken to an extreme.
Well then perhaps it is time the computer science part got broken up into the more realistic speacilaties. System administration which includes business management and computer network management function, computer security which includes law, encryption and decryption as well as psychology and network management and of course computer programming which is basically what most schools focus on because it is an easy straight forward teaching target. There is also design elements related to web site engineering and of course computers in health which should have a grounding in medical courses.
So you really have a change from a computer science degree to a computer science school with a range of more specialised degrees under that to tackle the more realistic needs of a modern digital society. Likely dual degreeing with other fields be it law, medicine, education, engineering, design, art, economics etc. to more accurately fill employment needs.
In slashdot terms, it doesn't really matter who submitted the story all that counts is how many comments it received (how great was the interest).
When it comes to computer repairs, the while you watch approach is obviously the safest approach and it is just no going to be cheap. This can be done via on site repairs on via an appointment approach (much like a doctor or dentist). The reality is the majority of repairs will be done in around thirty minutes, maybe 60 minutes if it includes say motherboard and hard dick replacement with operating system re-install.
Most computer faults are operating system based, with viruses et al being the cause. Cleaning windows is a pain, as it often takes many reboots and time spent waiting doing nothing, this suits in-house repairing multiple computers at the same time approach, billing each unit as if they were repaired individually.
Libel or slander make no sense in this case, as the ratings would purely be opinion based being arbitrary ratings, rather that factual.
That the police became involved was stupid, this really is a civil/school matter. The stretching of a disorderly conduct charge just represents a typical county mounty approach to the law, where they can interpret the law based upon their moods and donut intake levels.
The indecent occurred whilst the perpetrator was a student and allowed on school grounds and apparently left school before any disciplinary actions could be taken by the school, as such pretty much end of story. This attempt to abuse the principle of law by playing interpretive dance with it, is just a legal corruption. The 'letter of the law' is a principle that stands for good reason and is the measure by which all are 'treated equal' under the law.
When you start handing out the source code to the intelligence agencies of the world, who have been known to exploit faults and never declare them. Now add in that many of those intelligence agencies have less than scrupulous associations with outside for profit security contractors who are more than willing to kill for money, let alone indulge in global white collar crime. That obscurity is looking really, really insecure.
Now that would mean something if the product being offered were actually meant to sell in any great number or just meant to introduce the product to market.
Much like the Android phone, the chromebook sets the market for many companies to start offering an aligned product based around the open software stack as represented by chrome.
Google just wants the open OS market, where equal access to customers is all it needs to gain a competitive advantage. For google the big market will be the whole of school market, 16 years (primary, high school and university), of training for the work force and beyond. So will windoze be a dead and buried OS by 2027 or not.
Why exactly would this document hurt Wikileaks image. For people who wish their identities to remain confidential when they release information, this penalty would be very reassuring.
So you have, the 'New Statesman' and a junk journalist DAG, trying to put a negative spin on what many whistle blowers would find very comforting.
So how great is the penalty that many whistle blowers suffer, well you need look no further than the psychological abuse suffered by Bradley E. Manning. So what value does that rag New Stateman and DAG, put on that, apparently nothing.
That sort of stuff really depends upon how far into the warming cycle you are. You have to consider the intermediate period where average ocean temperatures are catching up to average atmosphere temperatures (the extra stormy period).
Once things have relatively stabilised (barring summer and winter), then we will be able to asses the more long term (relative to human life) weather pattern.
To cheer you up, there is still the major ice age, warm period cycle that has been occurring over the last couple of million years to contend with. Now if you want to waffle on about global cooling versus global warming, just remember for many major cities either is catastrophic, displacing hundreds of millions of people, inescapably collapsing the economy and with a high potential to critically disrupt civilisation.
Strange thing about all this, the rich and greedy are driven the B$ about being able to endlessly pollute the planet for short term profits and it's their heads that end up first on the chopping block when things fall apart, history proves that over and over again.
It is not about the training, it is about being able to substantiate your skills. Quality certification enables you to publicly substantiate your skill set, everything else is just a abstract claim until your skills are proven, or not, on the job.
Of course the other main claim to coding skills is contributing to open source software, where your personal contributions are properly attributed.
Outside of that you are relying on references from you current company, somewhat tricky (don't get that job your applying for and as a bonus you end up losing your current job for being unreliable) as references can be purposefully less than positive (the only time in competitive industries to give a glowing review is when you want to get rid of someone ie screw the opposition). There are also customer references, where you have dealt direct with customers and built a reputation.
For those coders treated like mushrooms (kept in the dark and fed bullshit), with no public recognition, shifting jobs is difficult especially if you also want to shift localities, another state or country.
Of course in democratic countries the opportunity exists to establish laws where by the leaders take front row as a real test of how desirable they really consider the war ie let's pluck and fry the chicken hawks first and see if the war continues beyond that point or whether non-violent diplomacy will resolve all issues.
As an aerial mine they can obviously be dropped from altitude and hang around for some time before initiating a target of opportunity attack and if they are stationary resting on a suitable vantage point they could hang around for days, with solar panels weeks.
It sounds more logical that schizophrenia is more associated with the brains dream function activates and slips into the conscious state. Dreams are of course a learning function, where recent and potential future sense and emotional states are compared to past sense and emotional states in order to take actions that will resolve to more beneficial states.
Where dreams start to leak in conscious thinking ie the unreal merging with the real, it becomes very difficult to adjust your thinking and take positive actions, hence a destructive randomness. In affect a corrupted data base that produces bad output as a result of corrupted inputs and queries.
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Of course what you are immediately doing is, system administration which includes associated legal principles, psychology of users, network infrastructure, project management, procurement and distribution, is nothing trade compared to computer programming which is a university degree. Similarly keeping a nations infrastructure secure and a corporations infrastructure secure, the laws, hardware analysis, network transmission analysis, code analysis, is a trade compared to computer programming.
The reality is system administration and system security are a moving target which is much harder to teach, them a programming language that was popular two two years ago.
Get real, the cost of server licences is identical to the hardware it runs on (no sound, no video, no connectors beyond network connection). 1000 servers price doubled with 1000 server licences and then add CALS, your basically burning money for nothing.
It is really down to biology rather than technology, once games look just good enough and sound just good enough, compared to reality, you are stalled until you get a virtual substitute for reality.
Until virtual reality glasses are here, with high resolution images, consoles can at this point only really chase lower price rather than higher power.
The big convergence between what consumer PC's are capable of doing at a price and what consoles can do is coming closer and that console licence fee for software is a problem.
Good virtual reality is guaranteed to be expensive, the question is whether it will get here before consumer PC's kill the console (simply by being built into your next big screen TV).
A computer science degree has had it's day and is long overdue for a revamp. Really computer programming , computer systems administration and computer security should all be separate degrees. That lump sum approach barely covers what are becoming far more important and complex parts of computer systems infrastructure.
Computer science degrees are struggling for relevancy because they are just too general, too out of date (changes in computer systems are hard to keep up with) and barely touch on far more currently relevant areas.
Of course secret Swiss bank accounts for corrupt Nazi officials had nothing to do with Germany not attacking Switzerland. Sociopath autocrats take a very dim view of the value of their soldiers, sending them to die on a whim in their thousands, in fact they blame them for getting wounded.
So does every one think there were no tax cheats in the upper echelons of the Nazi party. No just in case, let's hide some dead person gold for an emergency, no completely corrupt financial dealings that would inflate profits based upon who gets attacked when and no personal bonuses for siding with a foreign power when it is profitable to do so.
Switzerland's highly profitable neutrality had more than meets the eye behind it. A country that has profited upon the suffering of others by being the bankers of criminals of every description for quite a long time
Obviously you missed the bit 'millions of accounts' and yes that does cost a huge whack of money in terms of hardware and windows server licences.
Obviously if you are looking at that many 'hoped for' clients, you applications should be operating system neutral, so that you can readily farm out the hosting to reliable and competitive companies what ever operating system they are running.
Once 'sustainable' account numbers justify it with demonstrated cash flow, use that cash flow to build up an in house server system using what ever OS proves most cost competitive at that time, hard to beat free versus thousands of licences to cover concurrent users.
Of course if you resolve what was hoped for hope no longer exists hence to retain hope you can never provide what was hoped for. As for change, well, there has been a colour change ('er',from red to blue) and, there has been an intellectual change (from puppet dope to smart ass). You just really need to look at 'hope and change' from the viewpoint of a marketing agency lawyer.
As long as the US public are going to act like a bunch of rabbits at night staring down the highway at the bright shiny promise of consumer paradise approaching them they are going to keep getting whacked in the head by that limo's bumper as it drives straight over them.
The patriot act is looking more like the means by which the rich and greedy will protect themselves from their victims, than anything to do with bogey man terrorists or their acting doubles.
There is likely a lot of VB6 in 'Visual Basic for Applications' hence one department vetoed the other departments actions because it would likely impact macro lock in, a very popular 'it's just too hard to change office suites' tactic.
Let's be honest these changes to the law are more likely to do with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pine_Gap and as a 'er' partnership, the uses and abuses the US put it to, also drag in the Australia government.
Perhaps the US is taking a step back from 'for profit' contractor intelligence which tends to fulfill the need of generating more profit for the contractor than having anything to do with the truth, to seeking aligned intelligence partnerships.
Of course there is also, how exactly do you word keeping a eye on foreign computer and software corporations owned by or with strong ties to their government. When say a foreign government seeks via it's connections with regional corporations to insert say 'Trojans' in hardware of software, to enable all sorts of nefarious activities and sometimes these activities can be derailed for private for profit purposes.
It could all be pressure from the Android/Chrome world creeping into Linux GUI landscape.
Lateral thinking would be to start openly reviewing what really works in Android/Chrome and start shifting what can be shifted to Linux/Gnome/KDE.
Thta is the whole principle of open source and creating choice, whilst allowing for forks and feature mergers.
Android/Chrome will have an impact on Linux distributions not a severe as the impact on windows (slow creeping death) but more GUI, feature set and, some core functionality. Interesting times coming up for the desktop and consumer computer devices.
WTF, the role of a police force is to arrest people not put them down and make sure they stay down, It seems like the term 'Law Enforcement' has gone straight to the heads of many US police forces. Just a reminder the police assist the the public in upholding the law and the courts and only the courts 'enforce' the law.
A gun and a badge does not make a police officer, judge jury and executioner, well, at least it should not. Your comment seems to indicate US police forces seriously need to rethink their 'modus operandi'.
For clarification of bill of rights in Australia read this http://www.aph.gov.au/Library/pubs/rn/2001-02/02rn42.htm. So the specific concern is a bill of rights limits rights, rather than rights being unlimited until legally contested and put before state and federal governments. Apart from 'implied freedom of political communication' and of course constitutional freedom of religion, both of which can of course be stretched to infinity with regards to freedom of speech.
The more interesting point is that Facebooks privacy controls are a complete illusion http://www.theage.com.au/technology/security/security-experts-go-to-war-wife-targeted-20110517-1eqsm.html and of course computer security experts (drips under pressure) can be a cantankerous lot and use the letter of the law like a club to attack others whilst believing is does not apply to them personally.
Erm, yeah right. "B$".
The truth, collecting sales taxes for fifty states will mean that one of Amazons many already employed tax avoidance accountants will need to look up fifty states tax laws and add an entry into a database.
Even if this person is on their deathbed and breathing through and iron lung and is required to use nose movements to navigate the web, we'll assume it takes them fifty days, one day per state.
Another person will be required to make a 'one time change' change to Amazons B$ one click patented sales system to add a sales tax charge for the delivery address, shit, they can patent that too, one click sales tax calculation.
Bezos had a tax holiday price advantage, it's now gone, suck it up and get over it. PS price to customer is the end price, customers wont be paying more, Amazons profit margin will be forced to shrink (not at first Bezos is bound to carry on like a dick but eventually as sales drop).
You missed the bit about comments regarding any setting in a textfile.So the truth about windows reg edits.
a) Find fault can't do anything about it until the registry key is uncovered by a paid microsoftie out of the thousands available and the change will only affect the desired service and not impact other services, with random crash connections to that key.
b) wait
c) wait
d) wait
e) wait ad nauseam (when did windows 7 come out hmm)
f) abandon all pretences of system security open registry and edit as instructed and hope for the best with no real explanation of what changes are really being made and why that service is running at all. g) Install the next windows security update and find the registry key has been changed back and you now need to make three changes to the registry to make it stick, maybe and that is of course after waiting three months for someone to come up with the sollution.
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Oh get bent. When it is a criminal offence with up to fifteen years imprisonment what else can they do. Any lying, overweening, egotistical freak, who thinks it could be a criminal offence when other people's opinions differ with his grossly over inflated view of himself has to be some real low life ass hat.
Nothing ever excludes an individual from taking a proper moral stance about any issue. Clearly this issue, monarchy an anachronistic political deciet based upon centuries of torturing to death dissent and in this case imprisonment for, oh no, hurting the feelings of an asshat, are the opposite of democracy and freedom.
As for 'everyone' loves the monarchy, are you bloody joking, deluded or just a Thai monarchist propagandist. My opinion, anyone who hides behind a crap law like this, is a cowardly, gutless, disingenuous, ego inflated, narcissistic freak, with delusions of grandeur and a pomposity that could only be achieved with mental genetic faults resulting from inbreeding taken to an extreme.
Well then perhaps it is time the computer science part got broken up into the more realistic speacilaties. System administration which includes business management and computer network management function, computer security which includes law, encryption and decryption as well as psychology and network management and of course computer programming which is basically what most schools focus on because it is an easy straight forward teaching target. There is also design elements related to web site engineering and of course computers in health which should have a grounding in medical courses.
So you really have a change from a computer science degree to a computer science school with a range of more specialised degrees under that to tackle the more realistic needs of a modern digital society. Likely dual degreeing with other fields be it law, medicine, education, engineering, design, art, economics etc. to more accurately fill employment needs.
In slashdot terms, it doesn't really matter who submitted the story all that counts is how many comments it received (how great was the interest).
When it comes to computer repairs, the while you watch approach is obviously the safest approach and it is just no going to be cheap. This can be done via on site repairs on via an appointment approach (much like a doctor or dentist). The reality is the majority of repairs will be done in around thirty minutes, maybe 60 minutes if it includes say motherboard and hard dick replacement with operating system re-install.
Most computer faults are operating system based, with viruses et al being the cause. Cleaning windows is a pain, as it often takes many reboots and time spent waiting doing nothing, this suits in-house repairing multiple computers at the same time approach, billing each unit as if they were repaired individually.
Libel or slander make no sense in this case, as the ratings would purely be opinion based being arbitrary ratings, rather that factual.
That the police became involved was stupid, this really is a civil/school matter. The stretching of a disorderly conduct charge just represents a typical county mounty approach to the law, where they can interpret the law based upon their moods and donut intake levels.
The indecent occurred whilst the perpetrator was a student and allowed on school grounds and apparently left school before any disciplinary actions could be taken by the school, as such pretty much end of story. This attempt to abuse the principle of law by playing interpretive dance with it, is just a legal corruption. The 'letter of the law' is a principle that stands for good reason and is the measure by which all are 'treated equal' under the law.
When you start handing out the source code to the intelligence agencies of the world, who have been known to exploit faults and never declare them. Now add in that many of those intelligence agencies have less than scrupulous associations with outside for profit security contractors who are more than willing to kill for money, let alone indulge in global white collar crime. That obscurity is looking really, really insecure.
Now that would mean something if the product being offered were actually meant to sell in any great number or just meant to introduce the product to market.
Much like the Android phone, the chromebook sets the market for many companies to start offering an aligned product based around the open software stack as represented by chrome.
Google just wants the open OS market, where equal access to customers is all it needs to gain a competitive advantage. For google the big market will be the whole of school market, 16 years (primary, high school and university), of training for the work force and beyond. So will windoze be a dead and buried OS by 2027 or not.
Why exactly would this document hurt Wikileaks image. For people who wish their identities to remain confidential when they release information, this penalty would be very reassuring.
So you have, the 'New Statesman' and a junk journalist DAG, trying to put a negative spin on what many whistle blowers would find very comforting.
So how great is the penalty that many whistle blowers suffer, well you need look no further than the psychological abuse suffered by Bradley E. Manning. So what value does that rag New Stateman and DAG, put on that, apparently nothing.
Obviously the term 'confidential source' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confidential_source means absolutely nothing to that hack DAG or the New Statesman.
That sort of stuff really depends upon how far into the warming cycle you are. You have to consider the intermediate period where average ocean temperatures are catching up to average atmosphere temperatures (the extra stormy period).
Once things have relatively stabilised (barring summer and winter), then we will be able to asses the more long term (relative to human life) weather pattern.
To cheer you up, there is still the major ice age, warm period cycle that has been occurring over the last couple of million years to contend with. Now if you want to waffle on about global cooling versus global warming, just remember for many major cities either is catastrophic, displacing hundreds of millions of people, inescapably collapsing the economy and with a high potential to critically disrupt civilisation.
Strange thing about all this, the rich and greedy are driven the B$ about being able to endlessly pollute the planet for short term profits and it's their heads that end up first on the chopping block when things fall apart, history proves that over and over again.
It is not about the training, it is about being able to substantiate your skills. Quality certification enables you to publicly substantiate your skill set, everything else is just a abstract claim until your skills are proven, or not, on the job.
Of course the other main claim to coding skills is contributing to open source software, where your personal contributions are properly attributed.
Outside of that you are relying on references from you current company, somewhat tricky (don't get that job your applying for and as a bonus you end up losing your current job for being unreliable) as references can be purposefully less than positive (the only time in competitive industries to give a glowing review is when you want to get rid of someone ie screw the opposition). There are also customer references, where you have dealt direct with customers and built a reputation.
For those coders treated like mushrooms (kept in the dark and fed bullshit), with no public recognition, shifting jobs is difficult especially if you also want to shift localities, another state or country.
Of course in democratic countries the opportunity exists to establish laws where by the leaders take front row as a real test of how desirable they really consider the war ie let's pluck and fry the chicken hawks first and see if the war continues beyond that point or whether non-violent diplomacy will resolve all issues.
As an aerial mine they can obviously be dropped from altitude and hang around for some time before initiating a target of opportunity attack and if they are stationary resting on a suitable vantage point they could hang around for days, with solar panels weeks.
It sounds more logical that schizophrenia is more associated with the brains dream function activates and slips into the conscious state. Dreams are of course a learning function, where recent and potential future sense and emotional states are compared to past sense and emotional states in order to take actions that will resolve to more beneficial states. Where dreams start to leak in conscious thinking ie the unreal merging with the real, it becomes very difficult to adjust your thinking and take positive actions, hence a destructive randomness. In affect a corrupted data base that produces bad output as a result of corrupted inputs and queries.