It's hard to justify two to five years of education when most jobs have disappeared or have such extensive requirements that a college graduate has little or no hope of finding an entry level position to obtain the experience required to get a good job.
What I did while looking for another computer programming job:
Bryan Taylor iamcf13@hotpop.com SpamByte code: 7 (see http://www.cf13.com/game-over-spammers.htm ) All email containing unwanted content will be summarily deleted or reported as spam.
I have no degree in Computer science (Education is meaningless).
I do have 18+ years of hands-on experience writing computer software.
After months of online research, thought, and programming, I came up with this which will save businesses lots of money if they use it (Cash grab is important).
Bryan Taylor iamcf13@hotpop.com SpamByte code: 7 (see http://www.cf13.com/game-over-spammers.htm ) All email containing unwanted content will be summarily deleted or reported as spam.
If I remember correctly, I read that entire book in one long session--it was that *good!*
I found it a fascinating account of Cliff Stoll's efforts to nab the patient, methodical computer cracker who was halfway around the world in another country with only a small, overlookable anomaly as the only clue that starts the pursuit in full swing.
I should still have it lying around somewhere (along with Steve Levy's Hackers) so that I could re-read it(them) someday....
Bryan Taylor iamcf13@hotpop.com SpamByte code: 7 (see http://www.cf13.com/game-over-spammers.htm ) All email containing unwanted content will be summarily deleted or reported as spam.
Leave your phone line unplugged unless your are making a phone call or online with your computer.
If someone needs to call you, they can email you their phone number (if needed), a brief message, and the best time to return their call and you can call them back.
In this manner, you are 'invisible' to the telemarketers and spammers/computer crackers.
Bryan Taylor iamcf13@hotpop.com SpamByte code: 7 (see http://www.cf13.com/game-over-spammers.htm ) All email containing unwanted content will be summarily deleted or reported as spam.
I think it's possible to stop spam, and that content-based filters are the way to do it. The Achilles heel of the spammers is their message. They can circumvent any other barrier you set up. They have so far, at least. But they have to deliver their message, whatever it is. If we can write software that recognizes their messages, there is no way they can get around that.
It is August, 2004 as of this writing. Two years later, spammers have made his approach to filtering email spam almost worthless. As a replacement, I offer the following:
Bryan Taylor iamcf13@hotpop.com SpamByte code: 7 (see http://www.cf13.com/game-over-spammers.htm ) All email containing unwanted content will be summarily deleted or reported as spam.
They pay for their internet already, why pay extra to send email?
Instead, delete your email spam/malware automatically. I do with a fast, effective freeware, POP3 email checker I wrote called CF13-POP3(TM). To effectively eradicate all email spam/malware, consider using my shareware all-in-one mailserver program at the above URL.
Bryan Taylor iamcf13@hotpop.com SpamByte code: 7 (see http://www.cf13.com/game-over-spammers.htm ) All email containing unwanted content will be summarily deleted or reported as spam.
Filter spam/malware out of your email. I use CF13-POP3(TM). It is a freeware program I wrote to crush the email spam/malware menace. It is very effective.
A companion shareware program I wrote at the above URL is an all-in-one software mail server that makes it pratically impossible to accept and deliver email spam/malware.
Any artist will do. Weird Al Yankovic was used in the original post I was replying to.
Don't blame me, blame the writer of the parent post I replied to.
How to secure IE from ActiveX and VBScripts....
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Analysis of Spyware
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· Score: 1
Don't want to part with Internet Explorer?
Below is two procedures to better secure the browser and your computer system from all sorts of malware and cracking exploits.
open up all vbscripts in notepad:
open My Computer/Explorer (not IE)
click tools/folder options/file types/select vbs extention (or other harmful webscript extensions)/change/open with/other.../navigate to and select notepad.exe in your windows directory (usually c:\windows or c:\winnt)/open/ok/close
disable ActiveX (and better secure IE):
start Internet Explorer/click tools/internet options/security/internet/custom level/disable all ActiveX options/disable java (no more popups!)/disable IFRAME program launching (no 0wnage!)/disable paste option via script (no 0wnage!)/ok/ok
For safety, reboot your system immediately after doing the above tasks to make sure all your changes take effect on your next computing session after the reboot.
You have effectively made Internet Explorer as secure as Firefox and Opera. There are some caveats though:
Your are warned by IE with a popup dialog whenever a website tries to send an ActiveX object. The attempt is blocked but the dialog boxes can become annoying. There are still some security issues such as the %00 URL trick used by scammers to attempt ID theft so be careful....
There was a recent slashdot article about predicting financial patterns. Google has the tools and personnel needed to pursue this if they wanted to....
My freeware fights your email spam/malware & w
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CAN-SPAM Is A Bust
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Spam is getting to be such BS (Score:5, Interesting) by ghettoboy22 (723339) * on Saturday August 07, @01:31PM (#9909132) ( http://akghetto.com/ ) I run a small home server off my cable modem for myself only - no big commercial operation. Been doing this for about 5 years or so... finally gave up last week after my spam flow increased from ~100/day up to ~100,000 (yes, one hundred thousand) per week in the past month or so.... Tried RBL's, Razor, SpamAssassin, DSPAM, Apple's Mail.app client.... stuff only helped so much. Constanting having to fine-tweak filters, re-train Bayes. It's too much of a hassle. Now I've given up. Set Postfix to forward all my mail to my Gmail account. Has helped quite a bit, plus when I do get a message that makes it into my Inbox, Gmail's UI makes it pretty easy to mark it as spam. I'll try this for a while.
Using CF13-POP3(TM), I have been malware free and effectively spam free since 2004-07-06. As proof, my email address is shown on all my Slashdot posts without obsfucation 'the way it should be'. Any spam I get is summarily deleted by the program's SpamByte filtering system. Any spam that gets through, I complain about. I could be '100%' spam free but it would be difficult to send me URLs and email addresses in email messages.
(x) Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches
[Use SpamByte code 0 to silence all potential spam-like content. Email communications can continue but it will be extremely difficult and painfully obvious for the spammers to get their message across.]
If ghettoboy22 ran my shareware CF13-SMTP(TM) mailserver program, his influx of spam and malware would disappear. His inbox would only contain the types of messages he wants to receive. All other spam and malware sent to a properly configured copy of CF13-SMTP(TM) would be rejected before the SMTP DATA command or be logged into one file or summarily deleted after the SMTP DATA command.
(x) Bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering
[The spam has been delivered and the bandwidth has been wasted. In response to this, some of the spammer's time is wasted by the CF13-SMTP(TM) / CF13-POP3(TM) program, unwanted spam is filtered out by the user's SpamByte code and never appears in their inbox. The remaining spam that isn't filtered out gets a SpamByte code tag in the message subject line. In case of bad SpamByte code tags due to corrupted messages or spammers using rogue software impersonating SMTP(TM) / CF13-POP3(TM), use the CF13-POP3(TM) email client to filter out such improperly tagged messages via message file deletion.]
CF13-SMTP(TM) and CF13-POP3(TM) were designed and coded from beginning to end for high-performance email processing and to fight email spam/malware and win!
The date in question for the X-Prize attempt was picked more likely to commemorate the launch of the Russian satellite Sputnik in 1957 not the death of people in two separate accidents involving airplanes, buildings, and waward surface-to-air missiles....
The blame, such as it is, rests with Carnildo and the moderators who modded up his/her post as funny.
I really would like to say 'shame on them' and truly mean it but I can't because such behavior as this is a consequence of living in the Unites States Of America....
Birthplace of the First Amendmant that guarantees 'Free Speech'....
Birthplace of what is now known as 'The Internet'....
If you buy Weird Al music videos DVD (or anybody else's) you get the music for them as the 'soundtrack' of the DVD at no additional cost. Just be sure to rout the DVD audio through your home theater/stereo system and keep the TV turned off.
The only drawbacks to this method is that there might be Weird Al songs that he *didn't* make music videos for or the music video version of a song is different than the one on the actual music CD.
Only death in fiction in a satiric sense could be deemed funny such as 'Capt. Kong's Wild Ride' at the end of Dr. Strangelove.
By Carnildo's definition, Tuesday, 2001-09-11 should have been a hysterical laugh riot as nearly 3,000 people died in the 'September 11' attacks which involved airplanes and buildings like the 1992 El Al accident cited by Carnildo.
I don't think so.
Real life death is not funny--no matter how spectacular it is....
Penguin wants katie.com because...
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1) It is the name of the book and can be used to promote the book.
2) It is the URL easiest to type in a webbrowser.
Nothing else matters to Penguin
My advice to the original owner of katie.com is to have registrar lock enabled and make sure their domain fees are paid up for the next few years or so so 'dirty tricks' aren't used to steal the domain away from her like what happened in the (in)famous sex.com case....
I'm surprised you wife wasn't fired^Wtold 'we do not need your services anymore' by not signing that contract.
She must really be a valued asset at that big movie distribution company.
You should count your blessings...I would judging by the overall 'chew up employees and spit them out into the garbage' mentality evident in today's American workplace.
If they offer the job tell them you will only work for them under the following conditions:
All generic, non-proprietary source code you come up with or find elsewhere for future use before, during, and after employment with the company is yours (i.e. a simple file copy routine). The proprietary code will have a interval of 'non-competition' attached to it before it can be considered 'generic and non-proprietary' and thus 'yours'. Out of professional courtesy to past employers, such 'proprietary code' will be treated like secrets and only appear in compiled or assembled binary form in the final programs for your prospective new employer.
All software you wrote before you went to work for the company is yours or 'work for hire' for another company--the new company has NO tangible interest in your past achievments.
All software you code while working there that is not germane to the companies product line is yours (i.e. writing a mass-market game in your spare time at a database programming shop).
If they say no to any of this, walk and find another prospective employer.
If they say yes have them add the above material formally to your contract before you read and sign it.
Chances are, no employer is going to agree to these (reasonable) demands in today's hypercompetitive software market so the only other alternateve is for the programmer to become their own software company....
Then keep a heavily encrypted 'diary' of all your 'breakthrough' software developed on a secure, non-work, non-home computer on removable media and keep it in a safe place (not a bank safety deposit box that can be subpoena'ed) until you need to benefit from it by selling it to a third party under a non-disclosure agreement.
What the company doesn't know, they don't own.
If they somehow find out and get the removable media in question, just plead your Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination (unless some post '9/11' legislation got passed that 'trumps' the 5th or you live in England with its 'give the courts your decryption keys' law) -- thus not having to divulge the decryption key.
Of course, bear in mind, what can you do if the threat of death or torture is used to try to coerce the decryption key from you? The (now defunct?) website http://www.rubberhose.org/ has (had?) more information on this security conundrum.
Wake up people! To most companies, the employees are ultimately treated like the annoying drain on their corporate bottom line they (likely) are no matter how hard, efficiently, or conscientiously they work. In some cases, companies are paid to hire someone to work for them via some form of (corporate) welfare!
The only true way out of this mess is self-employment. Find a real need and come up with an effective, irresistable solution to that need and then the sales of the solution should follow and garner the solution creator their financial reward....
Of course the chances of success are (likely) slim to almost none but with success, the sky's the limit!
Just the other day, I saw the old Jackie Chan actioner Wheels On Meals and noticed the glaring product placement of a Mitsubishi car that lasted several seconds of screen time. Other Chan films I've seen have such Mitsubishi 'commercials' in them as well which surely indicates they help fund his movies.
I find conspicuous product placement in movies as annoying as the red, antipiracy 'cap codes' spots they stamp on bright colored frames of the film of the movie. If the studios keep this cap code nonsense up when movies are on the 'big screen', I may as well wait to watch the (cap code free) DVD release (if there is one).
The source code is in Python but a savvy programmer can port it to the language of their choice. For example, I recoded the 'windowed exponentation' routine in the SDLH function in C for use in some software I wrote a while ago.
I didn't have that luxury at my last programming job -- so I did it all. Along the way, I typed up or found on the Web lots of bits of useful code that I copy and paste into new programs as needed--thus reducing the amount of typing needed.
Unless you are Shelby Foote, who painstakingly writes his books in longhand with paper (parchment?), a (quill) pen, and an inkwell, touch typing is, I believe, an *ESSENTIAL* skill for (software) writers. You learn a valuable skill and save the company you work for money by not having to pay someone else do the typing. As an added bonus, by typing in software, your thoughts are accurately conveyed to the software development environment as you type them. Your boss's approach was standard operating procedure back in the heyday of batch job oriented computer mainframes but not now in the PC era thanks to proper mainframe terminal emulation and networking between the mainframe and the PC(s) that are 'attached' to it....
Just like the millions of Americans who don't have access to lifesaving healthcare because they are poor or do not have access to some sort of healthcare plan. When he was President, Clinton tried to get a national healthcare plan up and running that would be available to all Americans but nothing happened.
Why?
The answer is obvious to the corporate powers that be: Too Expensive To Implement.
[10] For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
Don't go looking for trouble, but if it comes to you, deal with it with sudden ruthless righteous violence. Let it be known you feared for your life, then shut up and take quiet pride in ridding the world of one more worthless waste of oxygen who preyed on decent citizens.
Sounds like the 1939 German ruling party philosophy which said that certain lives are "not worthy to be lived," and are to be
euthanized/killed/terminated/exterminated/neutrali zed.
Even more so if the burglar is 'UNARMED' and doesn't have a gun/knife/hammer-like object in their hand and they are killed anyway. Why go for the 'center of mass' when you can just 'take them out' with a properly placed head shot if you are a crack shot provided the perps aren't wearing any form of protective armor anywhere on their bodies....
Who knows, the burglar may have hit bottom, became unable to support themself, and turned to a life of crime to meet their needs. I am assuming professional thieves like Frank will not burgle peoples homes no matter how opulent they are or do it without hurting or killing anyone.
Fine, if your house has a burglar alarm, activate it if you can and call 911 if possible (in the USA) then HIDE OR GET OUT OF THE HOUSE!
If you want to use deadly force, go right ahead.
Just make sure you have more ammo and more powerful weaponry than the bad guys breaking in....
PS: By not mentioning the name of the party in power in 1939 Germany or its leader, I have avoided invoking the letter (but alas, not the spirit) of Goodwin's Law.
Slashdot Mirror
What I did while looking for another computer programming job:
1) Find a problem.
2) Solve the problem.
3) Benefit from the solution.
4) Cite the solution on your resume.
Bryan Taylor
iamcf13@hotpop.com
SpamByte code: 7
(see http://www.cf13.com/game-over-spammers.htm )
All email containing unwanted content will be summarily deleted or reported as spam.
I have no degree in Computer science (Education is meaningless).
I do have 18+ years of hands-on experience writing computer software.
After months of online research, thought, and programming, I came up with this which will save businesses lots of money if they use it (Cash grab is important).
Bryan Taylor
iamcf13@hotpop.com
SpamByte code: 7
(see http://www.cf13.com/game-over-spammers.htm )
All email containing unwanted content will be summarily deleted or reported as spam.
If I remember correctly, I read that entire book in one long session--it was that *good!*
I found it a fascinating account of Cliff Stoll's efforts to nab the patient, methodical computer cracker who was halfway around the world in another country with only a small, overlookable anomaly as the only clue that starts the pursuit in full swing.
I should still have it lying around somewhere (along with Steve Levy's Hackers) so that I could re-read it(them) someday....
Bryan Taylor
iamcf13@hotpop.com
SpamByte code: 7
(see http://www.cf13.com/game-over-spammers.htm )
All email containing unwanted content will be summarily deleted or reported as spam.
It's quite simple....
Leave your phone line unplugged unless your are making a phone call or online with your computer.
If someone needs to call you, they can email you their phone number (if needed), a brief message, and the best time to return their call and you can call them back.
In this manner, you are 'invisible' to the telemarketers and spammers/computer crackers.
Bryan Taylor
iamcf13@hotpop.com
SpamByte code: 7
(see http://www.cf13.com/game-over-spammers.htm )
All email containing unwanted content will be summarily deleted or reported as spam.
It is August, 2004 as of this writing. Two years later, spammers have made his approach to filtering email spam almost worthless. As a replacement, I offer the following:
SpamByte: Game Over Spammers/Computer Crackers...
Delete your email spam/malware automatically. I do
While you are at it....
How to secure your system against spam/malware...
Bryan Taylor
iamcf13@hotpop.com
SpamByte code: 7
(see http://www.cf13.com/game-over-spammers.htm )
All email containing unwanted content will be summarily deleted or reported as spam.
They pay for their internet already, why pay extra to send email?
Instead, delete your email spam/malware automatically. I do with a fast, effective freeware, POP3 email checker I wrote called CF13-POP3(TM). To effectively eradicate all email spam/malware, consider using my shareware all-in-one mailserver program at the above URL.
Bryan Taylor
iamcf13@hotpop.com
SpamByte code: 7
(see http://www.cf13.com/game-over-spammers.htm )
All email containing unwanted content will be summarily deleted or reported as spam.
Secure IE against ActiveX/JavaScript/VBScript/IFRAME exploits
Stop the 'unblockable' Messenger service
To further minimize the possibility of malware invading your system, use antivirus and firewall products. I use:
AVG antivirus by Grisoft.
Sysclean by Trend Micro
Outpost Firewall by Agnitum.
Filter spam/malware out of your email. I use CF13-POP3(TM). It is a freeware program I wrote to crush the email spam/malware menace. It is very effective.
A companion shareware program I wrote at the above URL is an all-in-one software mail server that makes it pratically impossible to accept and deliver email spam/malware.
Any artist will do. Weird Al Yankovic was used in the original post I was replying to.
Don't blame me, blame the writer of the parent post I replied to.
Don't want to part with Internet Explorer?
Below is two procedures to better secure the browser and your computer system from all sorts of malware and cracking exploits.
open up all vbscripts in notepad:
open My Computer/Explorer (not IE)
click tools/folder options/file types/select vbs extention (or other harmful webscript extensions)/change/open with/other.../navigate to and select notepad.exe in your windows directory (usually c:\windows or c:\winnt)/open/ok/close
disable ActiveX (and better secure IE):
start Internet Explorer/click tools/internet options/security/internet/custom level/disable all ActiveX options/disable java (no more popups!)/disable IFRAME program launching (no 0wnage!)/disable paste option via script (no 0wnage!)/ok/ok
For safety, reboot your system immediately after doing the above tasks to make sure all your changes take effect on your next computing session after the reboot.
You have effectively made Internet Explorer as secure as Firefox and Opera. There are some caveats though:
Your are warned by IE with a popup dialog whenever a website tries to send an ActiveX object. The attempt is blocked but the dialog boxes can become annoying. There are still some security issues such as the %00 URL trick used by scammers to attempt ID theft so be careful....
There was a recent slashdot article about predicting financial patterns. Google has the tools and personnel needed to pursue this if they wanted to....
This is why I wrote CF13-SMTP(TM) and CF13-POP3(TM)
Using CF13-POP3(TM), I have been malware free and effectively spam free since 2004-07-06. As proof, my email address is shown on all my Slashdot posts without obsfucation 'the way it should be'. Any spam I get is summarily deleted by the program's SpamByte filtering system. Any spam that gets through, I complain about. I could be '100%' spam free but it would be difficult to send me URLs and email addresses in email messages.
If ghettoboy22 ran my shareware CF13-SMTP(TM) mailserver program, his influx of spam and malware would disappear. His inbox would only contain the types of messages he wants to receive. All other spam and malware sent to a properly configured copy of CF13-SMTP(TM) would be rejected before the SMTP DATA command or be logged into one file or summarily deleted after the SMTP DATA command.
CF13-SMTP(TM) and CF13-POP3(TM) were designed and coded from beginning to end for high-performance email processing and to fight email spam/malware and win!
Therefore, I stand by my claim of:
SpamByte: Game Over Spammers/Computer Crackers
Though CF13-SMTP(TM) is shareware, CF13-POP3(TM) is freeware--free for all to use and benefit from its email filtering capabilities....
The date in question for the X-Prize attempt was picked more likely to commemorate the launch of the Russian satellite Sputnik in 1957 not the death of people in two separate accidents involving airplanes, buildings, and waward surface-to-air missiles....
The blame, such as it is, rests with Carnildo and the moderators who modded up his/her post as funny.
I really would like to say 'shame on them' and truly mean it but I can't because such behavior as this is a consequence of living in the Unites States Of America....
Birthplace of the First Amendmant that guarantees 'Free Speech'....
Birthplace of what is now known as 'The Internet'....
If you buy Weird Al music videos DVD (or anybody else's) you get the music for them as the 'soundtrack' of the DVD at no additional cost. Just be sure to rout the DVD audio through your home theater/stereo system and keep the TV turned off.
The only drawbacks to this method is that there might be Weird Al songs that he *didn't* make music videos for or the music video version of a song is different than the one on the actual music CD.
Food for thought.
Only death in fiction in a satiric sense could be deemed funny such as 'Capt. Kong's Wild Ride' at the end of Dr. Strangelove.
By Carnildo's definition, Tuesday, 2001-09-11 should have been a hysterical laugh riot as nearly 3,000 people died in the 'September 11' attacks which involved airplanes and buildings like the 1992 El Al accident cited by Carnildo.
I don't think so.
Real life death is not funny--no matter how spectacular it is....
1) It is the name of the book and can be used to promote the book.
2) It is the URL easiest to type in a webbrowser.
Nothing else matters to Penguin
My advice to the original owner of katie.com is to have registrar lock enabled and make sure their domain fees are paid up for the next few years or so so 'dirty tricks' aren't used to steal the domain away from her like what happened in the (in)famous sex.com case....
Wow!
I'm surprised you wife wasn't fired^Wtold 'we do not need your services anymore' by not signing that contract.
She must really be a valued asset at that big movie distribution company.
You should count your blessings...I would judging by the overall 'chew up employees and spit them out into the garbage' mentality evident in today's American workplace.
If they offer the job tell them you will only work for them under the following conditions:
All generic, non-proprietary source code you come up with or find elsewhere for future use before, during, and after employment with the company is yours (i.e. a simple file copy routine). The proprietary code will have a interval of 'non-competition' attached to it before it can be considered 'generic and non-proprietary' and thus 'yours'. Out of professional courtesy to past employers, such 'proprietary code' will be treated like secrets and only appear in compiled or assembled binary form in the final programs for your prospective new employer.
All software you wrote before you went to work for the company is yours or 'work for hire' for another company--the new company has NO tangible interest in your past achievments.
All software you code while working there that is not germane to the companies product line is yours (i.e. writing a mass-market game in your spare time at a database programming shop).
If they say no to any of this, walk and find another prospective employer.
If they say yes have them add the above material formally to your contract before you read and sign it.
Chances are, no employer is going to agree to these (reasonable) demands in today's hypercompetitive software market so the only other alternateve is for the programmer to become their own software company....
...in the code you write for the company.
Then keep a heavily encrypted 'diary' of all your 'breakthrough' software developed on a secure, non-work, non-home computer on removable media and keep it in a safe place (not a bank safety deposit box that can be subpoena'ed) until you need to benefit from it by selling it to a third party under a non-disclosure agreement.
What the company doesn't know, they don't own.
If they somehow find out and get the removable media in question, just plead your Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination (unless some post '9/11' legislation got passed that 'trumps' the 5th or you live in England with its 'give the courts your decryption keys' law) -- thus not having to divulge the decryption key.
Of course, bear in mind, what can you do if the threat of death or torture is used to try to coerce the decryption key from you? The (now defunct?) website http://www.rubberhose.org/ has (had?) more information on this security conundrum.
Wake up people! To most companies, the employees are ultimately treated like the annoying drain on their corporate bottom line they (likely) are no matter how hard, efficiently, or conscientiously they work. In some cases, companies are paid to hire someone to work for them via some form of (corporate) welfare!
The only true way out of this mess is self-employment. Find a real need and come up with an effective, irresistable solution to that need and then the sales of the solution should follow and garner the solution creator their financial reward....
Of course the chances of success are (likely) slim to almost none but with success, the sky's the limit!
Stop shopping at stores that want personal, non germane information AND you money in order to buy stuff from them.
If enough people do this, this annoying, inconvenient, intrusive practice will stop--one store or chain of stores at a time....
Must be logical BUT NOT CONSPICUOUS!!!
Just the other day, I saw the old Jackie Chan actioner Wheels On Meals and noticed the glaring product placement of a Mitsubishi car that lasted several seconds of screen time. Other Chan films I've seen have such Mitsubishi 'commercials' in them as well which surely indicates they help fund his movies.
I find conspicuous product placement in movies as annoying as the red, antipiracy 'cap codes' spots they stamp on bright colored frames of the film of the movie. If the studios keep this cap code nonsense up when movies are on the 'big screen', I may as well wait to watch the (cap code free) DVD release (if there is one).
The Pure Crypto Project (based on Modular Exponentiation and RSA alone)
The source code is in Python but a savvy programmer can port it to the language of their choice. For example, I recoded the 'windowed exponentation' routine in the SDLH function in C for use in some software I wrote a while ago.
I didn't have that luxury at my last programming job -- so I did it all. Along the way, I typed up or found on the Web lots of bits of useful code that I copy and paste into new programs as needed--thus reducing the amount of typing needed.
Unless you are Shelby Foote, who painstakingly writes his books in longhand with paper (parchment?), a (quill) pen, and an inkwell, touch typing is, I believe, an *ESSENTIAL* skill for (software) writers. You learn a valuable skill and save the company you work for money by not having to pay someone else do the typing. As an added bonus, by typing in software, your thoughts are accurately conveyed to the software development environment as you type them. Your boss's approach was standard operating procedure back in the heyday of batch job oriented computer mainframes but not now in the PC era thanks to proper mainframe terminal emulation and networking between the mainframe and the PC(s) that are 'attached' to it....
Do you want to write stuff in long hand and have somebody else type (and possibly botch) it up?
Save yourself $$$ and the hassle and type your stuff up yourself....
Why?
The answer is obvious to the corporate powers that be: Too Expensive To Implement.
-- 1 Timothy 6:10 of KJV Bible at umich.edu
Sounds like the 1939 German ruling party philosophy which said that certain lives are "not worthy to be lived," and are to be
euthanized/killed/terminated/exterminated/neutral
Even more so if the burglar is 'UNARMED' and doesn't have a gun/knife/hammer-like object in their hand and they are killed anyway. Why go for the 'center of mass' when you can just 'take them out' with a properly placed head shot if you are a crack shot provided the perps aren't wearing any form of protective armor anywhere on their bodies....
Who knows, the burglar may have hit bottom, became unable to support themself, and turned to a life of crime to meet their needs. I am assuming professional thieves like Frank will not burgle peoples homes no matter how opulent they are or do it without hurting or killing anyone.
Fine, if your house has a burglar alarm, activate it if you can and call 911 if possible (in the USA) then HIDE OR GET OUT OF THE HOUSE!
If you want to use deadly force, go right ahead.
Just make sure you have more ammo and more powerful weaponry than the bad guys breaking in....
PS: By not mentioning the name of the party in power in 1939 Germany or its leader, I have avoided invoking the letter (but alas, not the spirit) of Goodwin's Law.