I absolutely agree, Google is handing out bonuses for the extra value that they gain if the same employees are retained. (Even if we disagree on whether this value is derived from something that makes these people work differently if they're in it for the love or something else.)
However, my main argument was that by Google handing stock option-based compensation, they are "retraining" their employees (including those who do it for the love) to be profit-motivated instead.
It doesn't prevent some company from selling cheap degrees over the Internet. One of those private companies would start selling certificates with really low standards, and they'd be tremendously successful
Simple: In that case, I shall exercise my right to reject email from those people who do not have their certificate issued by an entity on my "list of l33t certificate issuers".
Google is repaying their love every step of the way. And not just their love, but their hard work and long hours over many years
Oh for crying out loud, would you stop this Google-loving, "I feel oh so pretty and loved" nonsense?
Do you really think Google did this for the kicks of it?
Stock options, if used and structured correctly, secure what you otherwise couldn't achieve for the corporation: employee retention.
If you have to continue working on reinventing yourself just to keep your employer in the business (since you set the standard high from the very start), then that's what you're gonna do. And for quite some time, at least until you're fully vested and especially if you EVER want to see those options still be millions in-the-money when you're about to cash them.
"I Will Pay Good Money for a Cascading Style Sheet that will filter out any Slashdot article that begins "Roland Piquepaille writes"
Whether you are reading Slashdot though RSS, or via visiting the homepage, you can still set up a very simple rewriter (e.g. in PHP) that you will be visiting via http://mysite.com/myslashdot/, where the script behind the scenes will on-the-fly fetch the/. homepage HTML, then apply a filter (possibly even make source URL rewriting replacements to prepend 'http://slashdot.org' to non-absolute links and image references) and serve it back to you. I think that way, you're good to go, and it shouldn't take more than a half an hour if this kind of thing is in your core skillset.
Watching sports is not a sexual behaviour, but rather a herd behaviour.
This is bullshit.
It is about power and therefore sex. When it comes to players in event, showing that you're the winner means you're showing you're the most suitable man to be mated with. Also, it's a way to demonstrate power to drive rivals off.
When it comes to watching the sports event, one can get a piece of that very same feeling by siding with the winning team. Associating yourself with the winner, you become a winner too (even though only in your head). The sports fan gains the feeling of superiority and thus the feeling of greatness of him as a male.
And that, to me, is the problem. Rather than fix the security holes, companies try to silence people who point them out.
I think that you have absolutely no idea what you are talking about and yet you keep talking about in paragraphs and paragraphs of boring blabber.
Go look here and notice that all vulnerability discoveries are not just published, but also credited. And they are not only credited, but proof-of-concept exploit code examples are often included (and credited).
And there are a lot more other sites/companies/projects who are in the business of discovering and publishing vulnerability warnings.
Where are those companies that "try to silence" them? Or that such practice is (or is becoming) an industry trend?
...is for Google, if the browser news is true, that they base it on Firefox and INCLUDE all extensions people add to Firefox in the browser's installation script. Of course these should be [installation] options.
And my wish is that people like you would go back to reading business development books or back to college.
First off, virtually all corn planted in the US is hybred.
How am I supposed to take you for an expert in this field if you constantly say "hybred" instead of "hybrid"? How can all you're saying *not* be undermined by the fact that you do not even have full grasp of the specialized vocabulary used in the field in which you claim to be more knowledgable than many others on this forum? How? Tell me how? I wish so much that you were a trustworthy expert, but if it talks like a duck, walks like a duck....
You'd better be twice as good as the guy willing to work 80 hours a week. That's pretty darn good.
On a side note, my company pays a quarterly bonus which works out to about 20% of my pay. If I don't work overtime, I probably won't get that bonus. 20% is a pretty serious pay cut to me.
If they pay 20% bonus, if you work in a way that you won't get it, you are NOT accepting a 20% pay cut, but only around a 17% pay cut.
Explanation: instead of getting $120, you only get $100. One hundred is around 17% of 120.
You might consider this percentage-counting discrepancy on your part a technicality, but it's a difference nevertheless.
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Where does my sig say "tomorrow or next week"? There will be warnings but they may only be understood in retrospect. We're not monitoring the landslide at this point and haven't been since 1997.
You implicitly admitted that in essense, your sig misleads people because it hides the fact that the mega-tsunami is not bound to happen very soon (which is something you blame on the reader to incorrectly miss, but in reality, you are fully aware that most people WILL be making the assumption if a precise time is not specified in your sig, you are actually RELYING on it to get people's attention).
The problem is that you don't have integrity.
If you are willing to mislead for one cause (irrespective of whether me or you believe it's a good cause), that tells me you will be willing to mislead for any cause that you see fit.
You might get your message across to the all-assuming masses, but you have a lot to learn if you ever want the more sophisticated audience to trust you.
Hit #1: 25 April 2002 Hit #2: January 25, 2000 Hit #3: September 27, 2002 Hit #4: November 24, 2003
I'm not even going to go further... Last time I checked, it was Deceber 2004...
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Regarding your sig, you moron:
Your own "FAQ" link from BBC says it all:
"When will the volcano on La Palma collapse? [...]
The collapse of the [...] volcano [...] is not going to happen tomorrow or next week. [...] What scientists are predicting is that the collapse is likely to happen any time within the next few thousand years. Scientists also know that a collapse will not happen without any warning."
One of my worst nightmares are my friends who are stupid. Those who will put my e-mail address into the "send this shit to your friends too so that we can sell their address" boxes.
True, I agree, in that context, the calculation makes sense.
Another question remains though, whether the scenario of an object being broken into small pieces and thus burning up in the atmosphere is the most likely one. I do not have the type of scientific background that would allow me to make an opinion, but it is an interesting question indeed.
I understand that you were excusing your mathematical simplifications for the sake of being taken as an 'interesting' contribution, but despite any math put into this (which I don't believe is wrong), you made one fundamental assumption:
You assumed that the entire kinetic energy of the impacting rock will be transferred into the heat of the atmosphere.
However, my point is that this is no longer a "gross oversimplification" but a disgusting exercise in misleading people!
Not considering the heat from mass burned and heat from kinetic energy transferred into the atmosphere, most of the energy will be energy transfer at impact -> the actual crash into the surface of the earth (causing earthquakes and whatnot). From the perspective of energy transfer, the heat-up of the atmosphere is likely to be negligible, as you can see.
I have a process (it's my own so it's seemless for me) of naming my files, and my directory structure. I never have a problem locating a needed file
If it's not a problem, would you care to share a bit more on it? I am guessing I might encounter some things to learn from in your example. If you can't, that's okay I guess. Thanks.
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I absolutely agree, Google is handing out bonuses for the extra value that they gain if the same employees are retained. (Even if we disagree on whether this value is derived from something that makes these people work differently if they're in it for the love or something else.)
However, my main argument was that by Google handing stock option-based compensation, they are "retraining" their employees (including those who do it for the love) to be profit-motivated instead.
It doesn't prevent some company from selling cheap degrees over the Internet. One of those private companies would start selling certificates with really low standards, and they'd be tremendously successful
Simple: In that case, I shall exercise my right to reject email from those people who do not have their certificate issued by an entity on my "list of l33t certificate issuers".
Google is repaying their love every step of the way. And not just their love, but their hard work and long hours over many years
Oh for crying out loud, would you stop this Google-loving, "I feel oh so pretty and loved" nonsense?
Do you really think Google did this for the kicks of it?
Stock options, if used and structured correctly, secure what you otherwise couldn't achieve for the corporation: employee retention.
If you have to continue working on reinventing yourself just to keep your employer in the business (since you set the standard high from the very start), then that's what you're gonna do. And for quite some time, at least until you're fully vested and especially if you EVER want to see those options still be millions in-the-money when you're about to cash them.
"I Will Pay Good Money for a Cascading Style Sheet that will filter out any Slashdot article that begins "Roland Piquepaille writes"
/. homepage HTML, then apply a filter (possibly even make source URL rewriting replacements to prepend 'http://slashdot.org' to non-absolute links and image references) and serve it back to you. I think that way, you're good to go, and it shouldn't take more than a half an hour if this kind of thing is in your core skillset.
Whether you are reading Slashdot though RSS, or via visiting the homepage, you can still set up a very simple rewriter (e.g. in PHP) that you will be visiting via http://mysite.com/myslashdot/, where the script behind the scenes will on-the-fly fetch the
Watching sports is not a sexual behaviour, but rather a herd behaviour.
This is bullshit.
It is about power and therefore sex. When it comes to players in event, showing that you're the winner means you're showing you're the most suitable man to be mated with. Also, it's a way to demonstrate power to drive rivals off.
When it comes to watching the sports event, one can get a piece of that very same feeling by siding with the winning team. Associating yourself with the winner, you become a winner too (even though only in your head). The sports fan gains the feeling of superiority and thus the feeling of greatness of him as a male.
It's all about sex.
And that, to me, is the problem. Rather than fix the security holes, companies try to silence people who point them out.
I think that you have absolutely no idea what you are talking about and yet you keep talking about in paragraphs and paragraphs of boring blabber.
Go look here and notice that all vulnerability discoveries are not just published, but also credited. And they are not only credited, but proof-of-concept exploit code examples are often included (and credited).
And there are a lot more other sites/companies/projects who are in the business of discovering and publishing vulnerability warnings.
Where are those companies that "try to silence" them? Or that such practice is (or is becoming) an industry trend?
Please think (and do research) before you talk.
...is for Google, if the browser news is true, that they base it on Firefox and INCLUDE all extensions people add to Firefox in the browser's installation script. Of course these should be [installation] options.
And my wish is that people like you would go back to reading business development books or back to college.
Grammatical error. Oh just go back to college, will you? :)
Oh, so you guys learn grammar in college. No wonder all your jobs are outsourced to India...
So it's a US thing? Please explain, then, why I had to fill out a form saying where I would be staying when I flew into London from the US?
Wake up! You were asked to fill out a piece of paper, and NOT questioned by any intimidating cops-for-hire.
imagine what a couple of pounds of sentex would do to the surrounding 'landing area'
To clear up some minor confusion, it's Semtex, not Sentex.
I may apply this to my daughter
Did you mean applying seed to your daughter? That's... ugh... hmmm....
First off, virtually all corn planted in the US is hybred.
How am I supposed to take you for an expert in this field if you constantly say "hybred" instead of "hybrid"? How can all you're saying *not* be undermined by the fact that you do not even have full grasp of the specialized vocabulary used in the field in which you claim to be more knowledgable than many others on this forum? How? Tell me how? I wish so much that you were a trustworthy expert, but if it talks like a duck, walks like a duck....
You'd better be twice as good as the guy willing to work 80 hours a week. That's pretty darn good. On a side note, my company pays a quarterly bonus which works out to about 20% of my pay. If I don't work overtime, I probably won't get that bonus. 20% is a pretty serious pay cut to me.
If they pay 20% bonus, if you work in a way that you won't get it, you are NOT accepting a 20% pay cut, but only around a 17% pay cut.
Explanation: instead of getting $120, you only get $100. One hundred is around 17% of 120.
You might consider this percentage-counting discrepancy on your part a technicality, but it's a difference nevertheless.
Where does my sig say "tomorrow or next week"? There will be warnings but they may only be understood in retrospect. We're not monitoring the landslide at this point and haven't been since 1997.
You implicitly admitted that in essense, your sig misleads people because it hides the fact that the mega-tsunami is not bound to happen very soon (which is something you blame on the reader to incorrectly miss, but in reality, you are fully aware that most people WILL be making the assumption if a precise time is not specified in your sig, you are actually RELYING on it to get people's attention).
The problem is that you don't have integrity.
If you are willing to mislead for one cause (irrespective of whether me or you believe it's a good cause), that tells me you will be willing to mislead for any cause that you see fit.
You might get your message across to the all-assuming masses, but you have a lot to learn if you ever want the more sophisticated audience to trust you.
I told you the 'm' was silent... :-)
The 'm' is silent... :-)
Americans are stupid lazy fuckers.
Just look at those sources you are suggesting...
Hit #1: 25 April 2002
Hit #2: January 25, 2000
Hit #3: September 27, 2002
Hit #4: November 24, 2003
I'm not even going to go further... Last time I checked, it was Deceber 2004...
Regarding your sig, you moron:
Your own "FAQ" link from BBC says it all: "When will the volcano on La Palma collapse? [...] The collapse of the [...] volcano [...] is not going to happen tomorrow or next week. [...] What scientists are predicting is that the collapse is likely to happen any time within the next few thousand years. Scientists also know that a collapse will not happen without any warning."
Oh wait, that's right, the US is building almost the entire thing...
Informative!!?? Ehm... sources to support that???
One of my worst nightmares are my friends who are stupid. Those who will put my e-mail address into the "send this shit to your friends too so that we can sell their address" boxes.
Choose your friends. Choose life...
Only Slashdot can mod this as "funny". Morons...
True, I agree, in that context, the calculation makes sense.
Another question remains though, whether the scenario of an object being broken into small pieces and thus burning up in the atmosphere is the most likely one. I do not have the type of scientific background that would allow me to make an opinion, but it is an interesting question indeed.
I understand that you were excusing your mathematical simplifications for the sake of being taken as an 'interesting' contribution, but despite any math put into this (which I don't believe is wrong), you made one fundamental assumption:
You assumed that the entire kinetic energy of the impacting rock will be transferred into the heat of the atmosphere.
However, my point is that this is no longer a "gross oversimplification" but a disgusting exercise in misleading people!
Not considering the heat from mass burned and heat from kinetic energy transferred into the atmosphere, most of the energy will be energy transfer at impact -> the actual crash into the surface of the earth (causing earthquakes and whatnot). From the perspective of energy transfer, the heat-up of the atmosphere is likely to be negligible, as you can see.
I have a process (it's my own so it's seemless for me) of naming my files, and my directory structure. I never have a problem locating a needed file
If it's not a problem, would you care to share a bit more on it? I am guessing I might encounter some things to learn from in your example. If you can't, that's okay I guess. Thanks.