Second that ; whenever we try hiring, the standard of the applicants is utter, utter, dross.
They typically exhibit faults like
* Lacing basic reading comprehension
For example, they tender applications for development jobs... when they were applying for testing.
* Apply for every job
When I apply for a job, I read the application and compose a precise strike covering letter, tailor my CV, the full treatment, because there are so few jobs out there that would interest me. These guys cut and paste applications into a huge list of jobs and it shows. Why would I want to hire someone who isn't interested in my position?
* Lack basic English skills
Spelling and grammar mistakes are a no-no. Successful software development is about communication - communicating with the user to get the requirements right, communicating with the computer to implement them. I don't wish to hire someone who displays difficulty communicating with concision in any of their chosen languages. Writing incomprehensible goobledegook in your job application will get it canned. Without wishing to be biased, this applies equally to the many Indian applicants (they outnumber the natives, typically) we receive responses from.
* Being unable to program
You'd think this would deter most folks from applying from programming jobs, but apparently many people have no shame. While I don't expect people to reinvent wheels like ArrayList, I do expect you to know how they are constructed.
* Lacking any kind of initiative
If you're asked a tough logic problem in an interview, even if you're stumped, you don't give up. If you attack it in a way that reveals some kind of thought process going on, I will give you credit for it.
IMEI is definitely transmitted ; in the UK we have a database of IMEI numbers that are blocked, across all carriers. Phones reported stolen are very shortly unusable - I've had it happen to me on a false positive once (the checksumming in the IMEI standard is crap). Which is why I've not heard any anecdotes of people having their phone stolen for years.
Confirm that ; we had a manager who left his phone at his desk a lot and it would ring constantly, distubing development. We put a jaffa cake tin on his desk and banished his phone to it the first time it rang each day... he learned to carry it around with him.
The prevailing advice AFAIK is to deliberately NEVER do a patent search. Why? Because if you knowingly infringe a patent, that's triple damages. Even the suggestion that you did a patent search could be sufficient evidence.
As you rightly point out, everyone knows it's impossible to write any significant (or possibly even trivial) piece of software without infringing something ; since this is the case, it just doesn't make any sense to do any kind of patent search at all.
They did this experiment with genetic algorithms with FPGAs, and it produced a frequency discriminator with far, far fewer gates than any human design.
There was a region of circuitry in the middle not connected to anything, so they figured it was redundant and removed it. The circuit stopped working. Stuff like this can discover emergent properties of systems you never even designed in.
Alas, no, because they are locked down with UEFI Secure Boot, and the signing key is not the same one that MS will sign bootloaders with for desktop machines.
I dunno, dogs are carnivores and their shit really stinks. Elephants are herbivores, I'd imagine their dung smells no worse than horseshit looking at it's composition.
That downloaded.exe is probably one of the sources of their malware woes - anything which requires you to download and run native code is dodgy as hell.
Suppose you mandated that all guns must be smartguns that required that you wear an RFID bracelet or ring or they don't work.
Two things will happen :
* Criminals will disable the mechanism in their guns * Criminals will carry an RFID jammer, thus making them immune to any short-range use of a lawful gun
The use case you state - being able to use the gun instantly in a crisis - can only ever be compromised by additional locking mechanisms. The RFID bracelet idea is probably one of the more reliable methods ; biometric systems will be slower and less reliable, as would keycodes.
Happily, I live in a country where guns are illegal and uncommon, but smart auth mechanisms have the same drawbacks as any other DRM - sometimes, it will get in the way of the intended use of the product. And where guns are concerned, the consequences may well be more lethal than with movies.
I have a very old Buffalo WBR G54 ; slow wifi, just barely good enough for one wireless video stream - which is good enough. It's lasted over 10 years running OpenWRT after it replaced the Belkin I had before. The wireless transponder on the Belkin failed, but the switch was still working.
I do sometimes get the upgrade itch for something with more grunt, but since I don't have any real issues with it, pragmatism wins.
First world governments are run BY companies. The politicians are all their cronies, because the companies control the funds and media they use to get elected.
We had a user-friendly diagnostic program once. I had to add a "save to file" routine, because we ran into a user who couldn't understand the sentence "cut and paste the text into an email"... even if you got on the phone to her and talked her through it... "Ctrl-A... Ctrl-C..."
The more foolproof you make things... the more the universe comes up with a better fool...
"Saboteur" refers to the practice of ruining the innards of weaving machines by throwing in your shoes - a type of wooden clog called a "sabot". It has no espionage connotations at all.
Well, duh. Of course they do - this is France, the country that made cryptography illegal until it was pointed out to them that this was destroying their ability to participate in electronic commerce.
Hydrocarbon emissions are a small part of the equation - that's just cherry picking of one element of emissions. Note how they are not emphasising carbon emissions. Hydrocarbons specifically only relates to unburned fuel fractions - which are polluting, but far from being the whole story. Bike motors produce disproportionately more because of their combustion cycle.
But they are still much lighter, and require much less energy to move around.
The most impressive sets in the Star Trek reboot were the engineering levels of the Enterprise, which had a real "pipes and metal stuff" vibe going on, rather than the plywood and painted woodblocks feel of TOS, or the plastic Okudagrams of the intervening next-gen spinoffs.
The silliest bits were the stuff where they passed objects through the brig door to Khan. They have nanotech that cool, and they use it to open holes in brig doors - and very little else? (restraint straps and Sulu's folding sword..)
Well, no, they wear appropriate clothes. But they flirt in other ways. It's not like E3 where they are there to pull attention - they already have attention. They are there to divert judgement towards buying their product. Besides, an intelligent woman in a suit showing you attention is far more flattering then a college kid in a tight t-shirt showing you skin.
The stereotype persists - I saw a guy get voted off a dating show just because he admitted to liking his XBox.
This was an attractive guy with a steady job, interesting hobbies, the works. The format of this show is a panel of 30 women with a light they turn off to indicate disinterest.
He still had three quarters of the lights on ; then he "came out". It was a like a blackout. He had two or three lights left, and they went out soon after.
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Second that ; whenever we try hiring, the standard of the applicants is utter, utter, dross.
They typically exhibit faults like
* Lacing basic reading comprehension
For example, they tender applications for development jobs... when they were applying for testing.
* Apply for every job
When I apply for a job, I read the application and compose a precise strike covering letter, tailor my CV, the full treatment, because there are so few jobs out there that would interest me. These guys cut and paste applications into a huge list of jobs and it shows. Why would I want to hire someone who isn't interested in my position?
* Lack basic English skills
Spelling and grammar mistakes are a no-no. Successful software development is about communication - communicating with the user to get the requirements right, communicating with the computer to implement them. I don't wish to hire someone who displays difficulty communicating with concision in any of their chosen languages. Writing incomprehensible goobledegook in your job application will get it canned. Without wishing to be biased, this applies equally to the many Indian applicants (they outnumber the natives, typically) we receive responses from.
* Being unable to program
You'd think this would deter most folks from applying from programming jobs, but apparently many people have no shame. While I don't expect people to reinvent wheels like ArrayList, I do expect you to know how they are constructed.
* Lacking any kind of initiative
If you're asked a tough logic problem in an interview, even if you're stumped, you don't give up. If you attack it in a way that reveals some kind of thought process going on, I will give you credit for it.
IMEI is definitely transmitted ; in the UK we have a database of IMEI numbers that are blocked, across all carriers. Phones reported stolen are very shortly unusable - I've had it happen to me on a false positive once (the checksumming in the IMEI standard is crap). Which is why I've not heard any anecdotes of people having their phone stolen for years.
Confirm that ; we had a manager who left his phone at his desk a lot and it would ring constantly, distubing development. We put a jaffa cake tin on his desk and banished his phone to it the first time it rang each day... he learned to carry it around with him.
Thanks for the cite - I tried to find it but couldn't. I now realize that I saw it in the same place as you.
The prevailing advice AFAIK is to deliberately NEVER do a patent search. Why? Because if you knowingly infringe a patent, that's triple damages. Even the suggestion that you did a patent search could be sufficient evidence.
As you rightly point out, everyone knows it's impossible to write any significant (or possibly even trivial) piece of software without infringing something ; since this is the case, it just doesn't make any sense to do any kind of patent search at all.
Obligatory : IANAL.
They did this experiment with genetic algorithms with FPGAs, and it produced a frequency discriminator with far, far fewer gates than any human design.
There was a region of circuitry in the middle not connected to anything, so they figured it was redundant and removed it. The circuit stopped working. Stuff like this can discover emergent properties of systems you never even designed in.
Alas, no, because they are locked down with UEFI Secure Boot, and the signing key is not the same one that MS will sign bootloaders with for desktop machines.
I dunno, dogs are carnivores and their shit really stinks. Elephants are herbivores, I'd imagine their dung smells no worse than horseshit looking at it's composition.
That downloaded .exe is probably one of the sources of their malware woes - anything which requires you to download and run native code is dodgy as hell.
Suppose you mandated that all guns must be smartguns that required that you wear an RFID bracelet or ring or they don't work.
Two things will happen :
* Criminals will disable the mechanism in their guns
* Criminals will carry an RFID jammer, thus making them immune to any short-range use of a lawful gun
The use case you state - being able to use the gun instantly in a crisis - can only ever be compromised by additional locking mechanisms. The RFID bracelet idea is probably one of the more reliable methods ; biometric systems will be slower and less reliable, as would keycodes.
Happily, I live in a country where guns are illegal and uncommon, but smart auth mechanisms have the same drawbacks as any other DRM - sometimes, it will get in the way of the intended use of the product. And where guns are concerned, the consequences may well be more lethal than with movies.
I have a very old Buffalo WBR G54 ; slow wifi, just barely good enough for one wireless video stream - which is good enough. It's lasted over 10 years running OpenWRT after it replaced the Belkin I had before. The wireless transponder on the Belkin failed, but the switch was still working.
I do sometimes get the upgrade itch for something with more grunt, but since I don't have any real issues with it, pragmatism wins.
First world governments are run BY companies. The politicians are all their cronies, because the companies control the funds and media they use to get elected.
We had a user-friendly diagnostic program once. I had to add a "save to file" routine, because we ran into a user who couldn't understand the sentence "cut and paste the text into an email" ... even if you got on the phone to her and talked her through it... "Ctrl-A... Ctrl-C..."
The more foolproof you make things... the more the universe comes up with a better fool...
Developed a plaintext recovery attack for SHA-256
And of course, the poll itself is part of the propaganda, as pointed out by an earlier sibling poster.
It's the setup time that puts people off - that, and the slightly counter-intuitive nature of public-key encryption.
"What, the other guy needs to make a key? But aren't I the one encrypting the file?"
"I have to get him to send me his key before I can send him mail? But I want to send him mail now!"
"Why do I have to sign his key?"
"Saboteur" refers to the practice of ruining the innards of weaving machines by throwing in your shoes - a type of wooden clog called a "sabot". It has no espionage connotations at all.
And it probably originates in the Netherlands.
Well, duh. Of course they do - this is France, the country that made cryptography illegal until it was pointed out to them that this was destroying their ability to participate in electronic commerce.
Hydrocarbon emissions are a small part of the equation - that's just cherry picking of one element of emissions. Note how they are not emphasising carbon emissions. Hydrocarbons specifically only relates to unburned fuel fractions - which are polluting, but far from being the whole story. Bike motors produce disproportionately more because of their combustion cycle.
But they are still much lighter, and require much less energy to move around.
I would just never park at a meter again - most things are not worth risking a death penalty for. Parking is certainly one of them.
There were LexCorp billboards, trucks and train cars throughout. They couldn't have telegraphed it any more clearly.
The most impressive sets in the Star Trek reboot were the engineering levels of the Enterprise, which had a real "pipes and metal stuff" vibe going on, rather than the plywood and painted woodblocks feel of TOS, or the plastic Okudagrams of the intervening next-gen spinoffs.
The silliest bits were the stuff where they passed objects through the brig door to Khan. They have nanotech that cool, and they use it to open holes in brig doors - and very little else? (restraint straps and Sulu's folding sword..)
Luthor was telegraphed as the next Big Bad the whole way through the film, with numerous LexCorp trucks and billboards throughout.
Well, no, they wear appropriate clothes. But they flirt in other ways. It's not like E3 where they are there to pull attention - they already have attention. They are there to divert judgement towards buying their product. Besides, an intelligent woman in a suit showing you attention is far more flattering then a college kid in a tight t-shirt showing you skin.
The stereotype persists - I saw a guy get voted off a dating show just because he admitted to liking his XBox.
This was an attractive guy with a steady job, interesting hobbies, the works. The format of this show is a panel of 30 women with a light they turn off to indicate disinterest.
He still had three quarters of the lights on ; then he "came out". It was a like a blackout. He had two or three lights left, and they went out soon after.