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  1. I would just sit them down in front of a computer, assign them a programming task and watch them complete it and make sure the program runs. Then inspect the code for neatness, logic, compactness and accuracy and of course how long it took. The problem would be relatively simple but require some complex logic to compete. The best three then go on to be interviewed to evaluate psychological worth, how good a team player are they and honestly I would be tempted to send the final person to a psychiatrist for an psychopathy evaluation so as to exclude psychopaths and narcissists, who are always disruptive in the workplace.

    The resumes and various bits of paper only about getting to interview stage, mainly used to exclude people, those that go in the WPB file (waste paper basket). There are plenty of people who can program but not so many who can does so quickly and efficiently and be a positive in terms of the work social environment. A happy workplace is a far more productive environment than an unhappy one. That testing for psychopathy and narcissism, a bit costly but hey a few hundred dollar test versus ten even hundreds of thousands of dollars (be it stolen proprietary data, stolen company property, in office conflicts and fights or simply primitive sexual assaults, that test will reduce those risk a lot, seriously well worth the investment).

    I wonder if employment agencies and insurance companies could come together ie insure the worth of an employee at time of employment and cover the employer for things like the legal cost of sexual harassment in the workplace or the theft of proprietary data. The insurance company would then carry out the test to minimise risk, as part of the employment agencies employee evaluations. You could quite profitably provide insurance cover for employee caused losses, with proper evaluations, allowing employment agencies to guarantee the value of their placements.

  2. Re: That's 1.43 Megabytes Each on LinkNYC's 6 Million Users Have Used 8.6 Terabytes of Data (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 2

    Perhaps they were looking just at data downloaded, now they have snuck in data uploaded and not said much about the nature of the data. The design kind of makes no sense, why have it free standing when you can have it flat against a building on sticking a inches out and in many location under cover. Stop and think but you do not get as good a view up and down the street, with built in microphones, so free standing closer to the street, which makes them and their users much more vulnerable to traffic but affords a better view of the public space, up and down the street and footpath. A whole bunch of traffic now transmitted, hmm, a continuous audio visual stream from those locations, 24/7/365, yep, they are spy towers.

    If they did not want them as spy towers, they would have mounted them flat against buildings, much safer for everyone and the pedestrian traffic is slower closer to buildings but you can only see effectively across the road. SPYlinkNYC.

  3. Re:How well did the ad brand censor? on Google Is Conducting a Secret 'Performance Review' Of Its Censored China Search Project (theintercept.com) · · Score: 3

    Every mention of developing and testing a mass censorship search engine, in China out of the western public eyes, to THEN BE USED IN THE WEST.

    Now that's the reality, Chinese in China the off balance sheet test subjects for mass censorship, to then be deployed globally brought to you by the cunts at Google.

    It is rapidly becoming an embarrassment to work for Google, now best buddies with Trump and the US War industrial complex, Google helping them to search out all those oppose to US corporate global dominance and KILL the, be proud Googlites, be fucking proud, you can brag to your children how many people your software will silence, either in speech or in life.

  4. Re:Not only no on Would You Put Ads On Your Homescreens For Free Mobile Service? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    From a more sensible business perspective. Honestly why would you spend money advertising to people who can not pay for a basic mobile phone plan. You are spending advertising dollars to sell nothing because you are advertising to people who can not afford to spend much of anything and have very little choice in their consumer habits.

    Technically it is a scam targeted at advertiser, getting them to buy worthless ads. It really is getting messy in ad space, people who can afford to buy product can also afford to by ad free content, people who can not afford to buy ad free content are the getting ads for products they can not afford to buy.

    To be blunt outside of politics, why spend money advertising to, well, cough, cough, losers. Kind of a waste of money, outside of politics, yeah those, well, cough, cough, idiots will vote for whom ever they are told often enough, to vote for.

    It is forcing ads and gross invasions of privacy and targeted manipulation that creates the problems for the rest of us and the reason why would should political target politicians to cripple the likes of M$, Google, Facebook et al.

  5. Re:And if they are any good... on Russia Orders Major VPN Providers To Block 'Banned' Sites (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 2

    To run a VPN efficiently, you should run the company in as many countries as possible. So from Russia, you VPN to your American subsidiary VPN, so traffic is VPN to VPN, it is cheaper because the in country traffic is cheaper. So the local VPN links to no one but their VPN subsidiaries in other countries, who then establish actual traffic. Technically you are only ever establishing network traffic with your offshore subsidiary and they are adhering to the law at that location.

    All you need is one person at that location, to do paperwork and of course rent a server on a server farm as the VPN, how to expand globally, from a small office in one country. All your network contacts are VPN to VPN internationally (all traffic tightly encrypted, with no indication of who to or from) and VPN to the internet only locally.

  6. Re:The problem with this story... on Security Researcher Pleads Guilty To Hacking Into Microsoft and Nintendo (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    When the title fits, "Clark, who was employed at the Malwarebytes security company at the time of the Microsoft hack". The fellow is autistic (which is quite useful for computer security, they love details, deep numbers), and the position likely fed into his genetic malady and exacerbated it, the quest for more detail, that curiosity bug on steroids. Likely be better off in a protected job in government where they could constrain or make use of his excess digital curiosity, dependent upon the target.

    The NSA or FBI should nab the fellow, for employment, and ensure his curiosity is targeted at persons or organisations they want that curiosity targeted at (not as an agent but as a civilian employee, with agents carefully supervising the activity, without have to pour through the grindingly boring search, that certain autistic types love). They were lenient mainly because income was not the motivation, just foolish curiosity and making friends, those he shared the information with.

  7. For some countries burning as much fossil fuel as possible works. Never ever forget the country most impacted by climate change and sea level rise will be the USA, no country will suffer as much as they do, the entire US east coast is under huge threat. Right now for those countries in conflict it makes sense to generate as much carbon dioxide as fast as possible, it's no like the USA will complain, they will help and in their insanity try to out compete you by producing even more carbon dioxide. All entirely silly but unfortunately much closer to reality than it should sanely be.

  8. Re:Uh.... "billions"? on FTC Fines Four Operations Responsible For Billions of Illegal Robocalls (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    So the problem is not the company that does it, the problem is the telecom that allows it. Seriously the penalties should be applied to the telecoms for failing to control it. Not based upon content but based upon numbers of calls and their duration. Those spam calls are readily recognisable, by the frequency and duration, simply disconnect the customer when they break the rules of the number of connections allowed in any time period, when they telecom fails to do so, fine them and imprison their executives.

  9. Re:That is their MO on IBM Accused of Violating Federal Anti-Age Discrimination Law (propublica.org) · · Score: 1

    This is what happens when you have accountants running engineering departments, rather than engineers with accounting degrees (they are so fucking easy to do). So basically the accountants think the engineers are as dumb and readily replaceable as accountants, so treat engineers like accounting department hires, disposable, all pretty much equally useless but can type numbers in the right holes in a spreadsheet. Nett result company dies because it is staffed by cheap shitty engineers who produce really bad work and cost far more in lost productivity then their salary.

  10. Re:Missing the point on GITAI Partners With JAXA To Send Telepresence Robots To Space (ieee.org) · · Score: 2

    Why protect those, who want the risk. Reality is the core stuff should be the focus, life support, better space drives, sturdier hulls. There are literally millions of people who very much want to take that risk.

  11. Re:Same reason they keep remaking Skyrim on Senators Demand To Know Why Election Vendors Still Sell Voting Machines With 'Known Vulnerabilities' (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    I would have gone with because the vulnerabilities are a feature not a bug and without them those locations that buy them would not and would go back to pencil and failure. Being able to mass change votes, A FEATURE and not a bug.

  12. Re:Sensors are physical objects on Boeing Unveils 737 Max Software Fixes (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Still the idiot version. You have total engine thrust at that time and measured airspeed (airspeed that can be defined by not just onboard instruments but by external data from the air' traffic control system). The design is inherently bad and unsafe, brought about by cheap shitty shortcuts and a corrupt approval system for US aircraft.

    Reality the only safe choice now, DO NOT BUY US AIRCRAFT, the approval system has been entirely corrupted, with the manufacturers self approving the aircraft and the FAA an empty rubber stamp, that will lie to protect the profits of US manufacturers. US aircraft will become more shoddy and more dangerous as time goes on and will fall from the sky more often. Sane passengers will start avoiding US aircraft.

    All foreign competing manufacturers could pile on about the corrupt unreliable nature of US aircraft. People do no even realise the biggest problem. It ain't how many people Boeing murdered by greed, from the greedy perspective, it is how great a risk that investment is, spend so much and they approval process is corrupt and those aircraft likely to fall from the sky with massive losses, it makes them un extremely unsound financial investment, simply not worth the risk at any price.

  13. Iranian State why? on Microsoft Takes Control of 99 Domains Operated By Iranian State Hackers (zdnet.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    That they could be typical cyber criminals, as from the entire rest of the world, oh no, they are Iranian and hence must be Iranian espionage agents. You know what every single American cyber criminal, by the same idiot logic, is a US intelligence agency asset, every single one (just look at the fake 'Anonymous' prosecutions and Sabu, who was committing criminal acts in other countries at the behest of the FBI, proof right there) .

    There are no cyber treaties and no extradition, due to US insistence that there be none, because they are the global cybercriminals and as proof they abhor the International Criminal Court as, the US government is an international criminal.

    How's that global politician extortion scam going for you, USA (Union of Shitty Arseholes, where the politicians are dags on a sheep's butt and that sheep is the poor suffering and exploited US population), not working so well any more, huh, everyone's security got better and those corrupted politicians are disappearing, well shit, who would have thought that would have happened.

    Played all your cards, your hand is empty, nothing left but empty hollow mouthings that no one listens to any more because yeah you lie and you lie a whole damn lot, its not just that you are corrupt and chaotic, it's that you are extraordinarily destructively so.

  14. Re:how does Moz do this? on Firefox Lockbox Comes To Android To Ease Password Pain (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    It's called Waterfox, https://www.waterfoxproject.or..., basically FireFox without all that teams arrogance on where you bloody tabs are, or how you search box is set out, or what settings you can change or what settings required coding that will be purposefully undone at the next update. Waterfox, Firefox without arrogance.

  15. I go with VR should be fitted by an optometrist, zero adjustment in the device, the lenses et al, all ground and set by the manufacturer before it gets to you, just like any other specifically fit glasses. People might think that is all too expensive but, it means the glasses can be as compact and light as possible, all the bulk required for adjustment mechanisms gone. You pay once for a fitting done by a professional and those settings recorded and used next time. VR by default should also turn off motion control and simply focus on a better 3d experience. You could put the controller in the VR visual space so you can virtually see what it is doing and which buttons et al are active, set real low in the visual space.

  16. Re:Solution looking for a problem? on Trump Administration Dims Rule On Energy Efficient Lightbulbs (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    I like the LED bulbs where you can adjust the illumination levels by turning them on and off quickly, three settings, the lowest output is really good for passageways, especially at night, real low muted light, similar in colour to an old kero lattern, quite soothing at night. I will over time change all bulbs to that format.

  17. Re:And this is a surprise how? on It Sure Looks Like Google's $599 Celeron Pixel Slate is Dead (androidpolice.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Why is that fair, think of the people man, think of the people. Each time Google puts out a crap product and then kills it because it is a crap product, there are millions of people who get sucked into that crap product experience and then after all their trials and troubles, Google rather than fixing it, just meh, shuts it down and wanders off like nothing happened. Those users were used, crash test dummies, to save Google money on testing the product, just getting users to test it for Google at their own expense, man, that is just plain nasty as.

    Why does Google put out so much shite, well it is pretty clear by now, they a a locked in believer of free user testing, let the suckers do it for free, rather than Google pay for it, which pretty much makes them a pack of shitty trolls, trolling their user base with shitty products.

  18. Windows 10 Compromised by Default on Microsoft: Windows 10 Devices Open To 'Full Compromise' From Huawei PC Driver (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Wait up there, Windows 10 is compromised by default. It includes software that invades your privacy, analyses your data and your internet access and does not inform you what it sends and specifically purposefully has been done in a way to block users for turning it off reliably (they shit cunts routinely turn it back on, purposefully). It forces the install of programs without user choice and that includes altering defaults, running advertisements and basically turning over control of that 'NOT-personal computer', to a blatantly corrupt for profit corporation, as a conspiracy between that 'CUNT' corporation and the equally corrupt USA government.

  19. There is profound difference between the three.

    Apple is trying to sell the country club approach and controlled environment you can enter but they have to ensure you can always leave.

    M$ is trying to force full control, to give them the right to monitor, control and censor your digital environment and to lock you.

    Google seeks the exact same thing as M$, just down all sneekily and behind your back, doing the exact same thing that M$ do, just not in your face about jamming a probe up you butt and monitoring and controlling you digital existence, to climb right on your back and suck a corporate tax out of your digital existence.

  20. They are not building a sports arena they are building an advertising platform by the false claims of surging popularity, to attempt to suck in the gaming community to brainlessly watch their 'sporting content' whilst doing nothing but consuming, manipulative and choice distorting content, ads on top of ads on top of ads. Ads between content, ads in the content and the content itself another ad and more ads for the sponsor and the nothings purporting to be celebrity sporting stars, just walking sandwich board people, living a 'ad' life style and lamely trying to sell it all to the children they manipulate, what a pack of lamers, ALL OF THEM.

  21. Re:Jesus they're getting as desperate on Music Labels Sue Charter, Complain That High Internet Speeds Fuel Piracy (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Sorry, you can not illegally download. By law, the uploader, is claiming copyright, illegally, you are not responsible for their actions as a downloader, they claim right to do so, you access that content based upon their claim. The greater the bandwidth the cheaper it is to distribute content, 'THE CHEAPER IT IS TO SELF PUBLISH', so the laws of competition demand mass access to mass bandwidth to actively promote the most competitive form of publication, self publication, technically failure to do so would go against constitutional demands, EQUALITY OF ACCESS.

    If Charter attempts to control the content in any way beyond the requirements of law, they can be sued for failing to do so properly, however if they do not transmit content, just bits per second, and only act to control those bits as required by law ie they claim ZERO control of content and only transmit bits, they can not be sued. There is no sound economic reason for them to have that content control hardware and labour in place, it places them in extreme legal jeopardy and represents an extremely anti-competitive practice with the clear intent to shut down public access to the internet by the corrupt application of legally jeopardy with regards to the control of bits, rather than the control of content.

    There is a right for the public to demand that the digital highway be free of denial, control and manipulation of access, to favour the few at the public's expense, and any attempts to do so will be at the political expense of those corrupt individuals who attempt it and especially those who ineptly succeed for a short time.

  22. Imagine the numbers of 'workers' who would be put out of 'work' by sex bots and at the highest levels of fake elitism, especially at 'the establishment' levels;D.

  23. Re:facebook should be heavily regulated on Facebook Now 'Vulnerable' To Government Regulators, Analysts Warn (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Real name social media, is an extremely bad idea, whilst it serves corporate greed for analysis and manipulation, it is extremely socially destructive and all down to numbers, bringing too many people together to digitally shout at each other, with enduring long term shouts and allowing the tiniest minorities to collectively hurl abuse about with quite large numbers that echo on and on and on.

    You have fringe freaks from all spectrum, lesbo feminist harridans to white supremacists, to black supremacists, to religious supremacist of every ilk, the worst being the fundamentalists muslims, jews and christians (even worse the atheists exploiting those religions for personal gain and power) and every other fringe ideology. Whilst tiny percentages of humanity ie 1 in 1,000 and even 1 in 10,000, they still come together and cause havoc in the thousands on the internet, taking humanity to all sorts of extremes.

    Using real names pushing it into the public eye, rather than avatars and pseudonyms, which tends to lock it to the forum in much smaller numbers and in smaller groups. Perhaps a simple law change, the social platform when using avatars and pseudonyms, is not legally liable for the contenting and only hosting but when using real names and identities, is shares full legal liability along with those individuals and if the identity was falsely used, full legal liability, civil and criminal (use real names at full legal risk, civil and criminal). When using real names, the social media channel should be forced to accept fully liability as a publisher and supporter for profit, of that content.

    Consider that pseudonyms (fake names) and avatars (fake identities) immediately tilt all that content in the area of publicly accepted fakeness. People can still directly contact each other by sharing real identities behind the scenes. Using real names and real identities, immediately tilts the content to being reality. So fake from the outset only limited web site legal responsibility, forcing it into reality, full legal liability civil and criminal for all content on that website.

    The law can quite readily be written so as to divide the two and push huge criminal liabilities on websites who want to use real world names and identities to analyse and manipulate and fuck the social consequences. There is a clear distinction between the two that can be written into law.

  24. Re:Duh!!!! on More Than One Reality Exists (in Quantum Physics) (livescience.com) · · Score: 1

    I am going with three inter related realities. One of normal space us, one of quantum space where matter is small enough to go faster than the speed of gravity and exist massless until such time as sufficient quantum particles come together to exhibit mass and slow below the speed of gravity. There third one, macro space, multiple universes, bound within a greater verse, one going much slower than us, much like we go much slower than quantum space. Us caught in between, normal space stretched between quantum space and macro space. The really weird bit, where macro space and quantum space meet, the other side of reality for us in normal space.

  25. Speaking of recruiting. What I am getting from the incident with only some of the information. The individual made a rather foolish trip to Pakistan, advertised himself on social media to attract direct social contact and attracted the worst sort who then sexually abused them. The Mossad picked up on it, a pulled the target into a distorted social circle to further prime the individual up for violence and provided training and support to carry the attack, acting as the poor fellows social support group and friend, the aim, an terrorist attack in Australia, to stir up social conflict there but gun controls blocked it, so second choice New Zealand, with an indirect social attack upon Australia. A reasonable hypotheses based upon some of the information at hand, within the limits of my interest in the story.