What was the last PCI card that you used? I think the last one that I used in any of my computers was back when I bought one new and it came with a winmodem.
Now he can't be killed or disappeared without everyone knowing exactly what's going on.
Do you know where he is? Have you seen him? He's gone public with his identity, but he's still essentially in hiding. If he disappeared and never surfaced again, I guess he just has a great hiding spot...
I have been asked by a medium-sized business to help them come to grips with why their IT group is ineffective, loathed by all other departments, and runs at roughly twice the budget of what the CFO has deemed appropriate for the company's size and industry. ... How can one objectively illustrate that a person doesn't have the knowledge sufficient to run a department?
If you have to come to Slashdot to ask this question, are you REALLY qualified to help the company come to grips?
While the 'head of IT' and/or some number of IT staff may indeed ill suited to perform their jobs correctly, if I was involved in the situation even if my job wasn't ultimately affected, I'd be really pissed that my department's direction was changed based on the advice of a 3rd party that had to post an Ask Slashdot.
If it's not on my own infrastructure, it doesn't go on my resume.
The issue can still come up of they look at the source on his own infrastructure, and then search for it on google and find the previous company. When I've been asked to look at a job candidates resume and sample code submission searching for distinctive phrases or lines and quickly found one or more sources that were similar enough to exclude the candidate.
No, he's not stealing. At worst, he's infringing the copyright. At best, he asked for permission to retain a copy of the code for his portfolio or his employment contract stipulated similar.
Now this is grey territory as it the client who owns the source, not the contracting developer.
The original contract should have specified who owns the source code. If it specified the company, then while your name could be on it as the original author, it belongs to the company and they have the right to modify it and the copyright. If no ownership was specified, then the developer owns it and their changing of the copyright was improper.
If indeed the company owns the copyright, did you have permission to retain a copy of it for use in your portfolio? If so, it's easily explained as the code was work performed under contract which you have the original source however the company subsequently modified it. Volunteer to walk through the code or otherwise show your expertise with it. Show them documentation that you worked for whatever company now owns the copyright, or even better documentation from the company that you have permission to include it in your portfolio.
The company you're hiring into has a right to question the claim that you wrote it in light of conflicting information and investigate further. And you have a right to defend yourself and explain the situation. If that does not satisfy the company, do you really want to work for a company that doesn't trust and believe you from the start of employment?
You're reading the heatmaps wrong. It doesn't indicate what each country has collected on itself. It indicates what the NSA has collected on each country.
The keyfob works to start or keep the car running only a matter of a few feet. If you get out of the car, or someone forces past you to get into the car when you're not in it they aren't going to start it with you standing outside the vehicle. Worst case, they might get a few feet before the car shuts down.
It's a convenience feature that isn't necessary, but some people want it. They can keep their keys in their pocket or purse and not take them out to start the vehicle.
What's wrong with some "crapy old version of SNES9x"? My three tweenage sons spend hours each week playing Minecraft on our laptops or XBox 360, and various games on their tablets. Many of those games appear inferior to some of my favorite SNES games and my boys agree based on them loving to play Super Metroid, Super Mario World, and other great classics.
I remember playing Super Mario World on my Pentium-120 computer I got my freshman year of college in 1997. At that time there were a few games that were incompatible, mainly the ones with the Super FX "graphics accelerator" chip. Other than that, games played just as well in the emulator on what is now considered primitive hardware by today's standards as what they did in the console.
Do you really think that when you delete it that it actually deletes it? It's been standard operating procedure for years where I've worked that things appear deleted as far as the end user sees, but it's still there in the database just flagged "deleted".
Doing this makes it far easier to "undelete" something when it was inadvertently deleted, investigate something that a user was trying to cover up, or just keep a record for our own data mining purposes that's separate to the end user's use of the data.
He entered many fairs? The article I read mentioned two, Wyoming State Fair and one for South Dakota. It's something his school has been doing for at least a few years as they live so near the border.
I wouldn't exactly call entering two fairs that were geographically very close to the school gaming the system.
Obviously this farmer broke into a Monsanto lab, stole the seeds, and then planted it in his farm. This is the ONLY plausible scenario that could have happened.
That line of thinking didn't work for the automotive industry in the 70's and 80's. It won't work for google either, all it will take is consumers being fedup and an alternative.
Aside from their search and ad-related services, none of their services really have a dominance in their particular market. Yes they are very popular, but it's not like there aren't alternatives that are just as good if not better. GMail isn't the only webmail provider. Google Drive isn't the only file storage locker. Google Maps isn't the only mapping company, etc.
Shareholders don't give a crap. The number of people who won't use Paypal because of this isn't even a blip on their financial impact radar, causing even less of a blip on eBay's stock price.
Why do coders have to be so jealous and dismissive of other people's knowledge/achievements?
Because the rest of us don't get mentioned on NetworkWorld.com or Slashdot for working 30 days to create incomplete alpha software to solve a problem that has been solved by multiple free (speech and/or beer) and commercial software packages that actually are complete and work well.
Doesn't that advice apply to just about everything? TVs, cars, medicine...The ultra high end or bleeding edge technology usually isn't "worth it". Yet that edge always seems to move along and what is today's best, most expensive tech is tomorrow's everyday tech.
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I'm sure that Panama didn't consider that either when they started their current project to widen the existing Panama canal.
And now you know why this comic was made.
What was the last PCI card that you used? I think the last one that I used in any of my computers was back when I bought one new and it came with a winmodem.
Do you know where he is? Have you seen him? He's gone public with his identity, but he's still essentially in hiding. If he disappeared and never surfaced again, I guess he just has a great hiding spot...
If you have to come to Slashdot to ask this question, are you REALLY qualified to help the company come to grips?
While the 'head of IT' and/or some number of IT staff may indeed ill suited to perform their jobs correctly, if I was involved in the situation even if my job wasn't ultimately affected, I'd be really pissed that my department's direction was changed based on the advice of a 3rd party that had to post an Ask Slashdot.
The issue can still come up of they look at the source on his own infrastructure, and then search for it on google and find the previous company. When I've been asked to look at a job candidates resume and sample code submission searching for distinctive phrases or lines and quickly found one or more sources that were similar enough to exclude the candidate.
No, he's not stealing. At worst, he's infringing the copyright. At best, he asked for permission to retain a copy of the code for his portfolio or his employment contract stipulated similar.
The original contract should have specified who owns the source code. If it specified the company, then while your name could be on it as the original author, it belongs to the company and they have the right to modify it and the copyright. If no ownership was specified, then the developer owns it and their changing of the copyright was improper.
If indeed the company owns the copyright, did you have permission to retain a copy of it for use in your portfolio? If so, it's easily explained as the code was work performed under contract which you have the original source however the company subsequently modified it. Volunteer to walk through the code or otherwise show your expertise with it. Show them documentation that you worked for whatever company now owns the copyright, or even better documentation from the company that you have permission to include it in your portfolio.
The company you're hiring into has a right to question the claim that you wrote it in light of conflicting information and investigate further. And you have a right to defend yourself and explain the situation. If that does not satisfy the company, do you really want to work for a company that doesn't trust and believe you from the start of employment?
You're reading the heatmaps wrong. It doesn't indicate what each country has collected on itself. It indicates what the NSA has collected on each country.
Let me guess. You got a large refund and wanted to get your interest free loan to the government back as soon as you could.
I owed money. Or maybe I wanted my money to work more for me then for the government collecting 0% interest. I waited until the last week to file.
You mean they don't mine data like below?
SELECT ssn FROM usPopulation WHERE evidence like '%keyword1%' AND Evidence like '%keyword2%' AND ...
I'll see your 210 days and raise you a Nov 16th, 2012 quote by Juliet Jiang, senior vice president of Broad Group:
The keyfob works to start or keep the car running only a matter of a few feet. If you get out of the car, or someone forces past you to get into the car when you're not in it they aren't going to start it with you standing outside the vehicle. Worst case, they might get a few feet before the car shuts down.
It's a convenience feature that isn't necessary, but some people want it. They can keep their keys in their pocket or purse and not take them out to start the vehicle.
What's wrong with some "crapy old version of SNES9x"? My three tweenage sons spend hours each week playing Minecraft on our laptops or XBox 360, and various games on their tablets. Many of those games appear inferior to some of my favorite SNES games and my boys agree based on them loving to play Super Metroid, Super Mario World, and other great classics.
I remember playing Super Mario World on my Pentium-120 computer I got my freshman year of college in 1997. At that time there were a few games that were incompatible, mainly the ones with the Super FX "graphics accelerator" chip. Other than that, games played just as well in the emulator on what is now considered primitive hardware by today's standards as what they did in the console.
Do you really think that when you delete it that it actually deletes it? It's been standard operating procedure for years where I've worked that things appear deleted as far as the end user sees, but it's still there in the database just flagged "deleted".
Doing this makes it far easier to "undelete" something when it was inadvertently deleted, investigate something that a user was trying to cover up, or just keep a record for our own data mining purposes that's separate to the end user's use of the data.
He entered many fairs? The article I read mentioned two, Wyoming State Fair and one for South Dakota. It's something his school has been doing for at least a few years as they live so near the border.
I wouldn't exactly call entering two fairs that were geographically very close to the school gaming the system.
Obviously this farmer broke into a Monsanto lab, stole the seeds, and then planted it in his farm. This is the ONLY plausible scenario that could have happened.
Signed,
Monsanto Legal Dept.
Well if he's breathing in radioactive Carbon-14 right now, shouldn't exhale and then not breath in?
As oppose to every compiled program out that has no comments, whitespace, and method names that just consist of memory address offsets.
Aside from their search and ad-related services, none of their services really have a dominance in their particular market. Yes they are very popular, but it's not like there aren't alternatives that are just as good if not better. GMail isn't the only webmail provider. Google Drive isn't the only file storage locker. Google Maps isn't the only mapping company, etc.
If you're referring to this /. artcile, I read an article speculating about journalists speculating about what Apple might possibly do sometime. Maybe.
Shareholders don't give a crap. The number of people who won't use Paypal because of this isn't even a blip on their financial impact radar, causing even less of a blip on eBay's stock price.
Because the rest of us don't get mentioned on NetworkWorld.com or Slashdot for working 30 days to create incomplete alpha software to solve a problem that has been solved by multiple free (speech and/or beer) and commercial software packages that actually are complete and work well.
This is a "News for nerds" site. What self respecting nerd doesn't use an ad blockers of some sorts?
Doesn't that advice apply to just about everything? TVs, cars, medicine...The ultra high end or bleeding edge technology usually isn't "worth it". Yet that edge always seems to move along and what is today's best, most expensive tech is tomorrow's everyday tech.