Same no-agencies policy, so it's small and selective and not so attractive to job-seekers who adopt the resume cluster-bomb approach. And wherever you're advertising, some of the guidelines in comments above are very good advice.
This is from the same programmers who wrote Kazaa, not the same business that now owns it. There's a big difference. As far as I have been able to tell Skype does not install any spyware (but of course that's not saying they won't).
poofmeisterp makes a good point but often such devices are next to useless if you don't carry them with you. A laptop that stays on your desk, an iPod for music while working at your desk, a mobile that never leaves the office...
By all means buy the devices, use and enjoy them. You could get unlucky but some other points in these threads might help.
Acutally, learning how to defend yourself is a sensible step. Some basic martial arts classes or similar will teach you just enough to suprise and possibly injure your attacker long enough for you to make an escape.
Meme viruses are not new, but this is the most stupid that I've seen. Remember jdbmgr.exe? There's also a lot of non-technical ones but the distinction between good meme and bad meme becomes a bit dependant on your point of view.
An 'unlikely' conditional branch could be useful for error checking, where the error is unlikely to occur, and performance is irrelevant if it does. Takes the mantra of "don't optimise for errors" a bit further.
Of course, this would yield only a small performance gain since who checks for errors in performance critical code anyway?;)
Since when did/. exclusively report on computer security?
You're right, it wasn't a technical hack, but that doesn't mean it's not important. Social engineering (which I guess this comes under) deserves more respect than it currently gets. Your organisation might have God's own firewall but that's not a lot of use if an attacker attends a conference at your workplace, gets a temporary ID and then gets lifts a couple of laptops at lunch.
Actually the cable quality can affect the relative phase (and volume) with frequency. IANAEE, but something called the skin effect, to do with the capacitance of cable, results in higher frequency signals both being attenuated by the cable, and arriving at the destination faster than lower frequencies.
So a poor cable can leave the higher frequencies out of phase with the bottom end, which reduces the clarity of the sound.
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If you're in Australia there's a new service similar to Joel's: http://jobreel.com.au/
Same no-agencies policy, so it's small and selective and not so attractive to job-seekers who adopt the resume cluster-bomb approach. And wherever you're advertising, some of the guidelines in comments above are very good advice.
This is from the same programmers who wrote Kazaa, not the same business that now owns it. There's a big difference. As far as I have been able to tell Skype does not install any spyware (but of course that's not saying they won't).
By all means buy the devices, use and enjoy them. You could get unlucky but some other points in these threads might help.
Acutally, learning how to defend yourself is a sensible step. Some basic martial arts classes or similar will teach you just enough to suprise and possibly injure your attacker long enough for you to make an escape.
Sydneysiders might like to try Hoshin Jutsu
Are South Park references obligatory yet? They should be...
Meme viruses are not new, but this is the most stupid that I've seen. Remember jdbmgr.exe? There's also a lot of non-technical ones but the distinction between good meme and bad meme becomes a bit dependant on your point of view.
Of course, this would yield only a small performance gain since who checks for errors in performance critical code anyway? ;)
You're right, it wasn't a technical hack, but that doesn't mean it's not important. Social engineering (which I guess this comes under) deserves more respect than it currently gets. Your organisation might have God's own firewall but that's not a lot of use if an attacker attends a conference at your workplace, gets a temporary ID and then gets lifts a couple of laptops at lunch.
Probably because your phone is engaged troubleshooting someone else.
Oh, wait... yeah why not call Dell, at least they have hold music.
I sure as hell hope I don't meet a multiheaded hacker
Actually the cable quality can affect the relative phase (and volume) with frequency. IANAEE, but something called the skin effect, to do with the capacitance of cable, results in higher frequency signals both being attenuated by the cable, and arriving at the destination faster than lower frequencies.
So a poor cable can leave the higher frequencies out of phase with the bottom end, which reduces the clarity of the sound.