No, it is my personal banking, and I "don't care enough" to disable security feature - auto-update of Chrome because while I see it as unnecessary and inconvenient in my usecase, it is not detrimental to security to keep it on.
While I might not actively remember security benefit, I do remember inconvenience of waiting for it to update. Blame human psychology.
Decision process is following: Inconvenience of slow Chrome startups due to updating Vs. Inconvenience with disabling it and remembering to keep track of necessary updates.
Not only corporate. I have dedicated banking machine running Chrome (decision was made back when it was the only major browser using sand boxing) that is only used couple times a month. Silent updates majorly bog it down. Yes, if I cared enough I'd find a way to block it.
Can someone tell me what the difference between Firefox and Chrome these days? I want my supported 3.6 back.
Could jury know trial would likely go to appeals? They might have known that this trial is a waste of time and not likely to get resolved prior to Supreme Court.
>>>Maybe we're reading a different thread but I haven't seen any "MS sniping".
While BSOD of nuclear reactor jokes are funny... well they are funny. Welcome to Slashdot.
>>> My question is this: when you say "somebody is working on nuclear power", am I to believe that BG and his team are the only people actually working on the state of the art in reactors?
US recently approved 2 reactors in Georgia, but that was for the first time since 1978!!! .
Point I was making is that nuclear reactor development was paused for more than a decade based on irrational fear of nuclear technology. This resulted in a lot of dated designs getting extended past designed operational life. It is nice to see work resumed on improving nuclear technology, and that someone is working on it.
I really appreciate that someone is working on advancing nuclear energy. Oil and gas are fine for now, but eventually we will need reliable non-oil/gas based energy solution. I believe nuclear, once sufficiently mature, could be that alternative.
At the risk of giving them more ideas, wouldn't it be simpler to uninstall and erase all traces? Maybe also defrag hard disk on the way out. Corrupted PCs are all but guaranteed to attract attention of IT, who have much greater chance to detect intrusion than your average user.
Thing is, there is very little you could test unless you get this 3,000 year old brain to boot up. Think of it this way - you are handed 2 non-working CPUs, could you tell if they are different? Perhaps if they have physically different (but human brains naturally deviate from the norm), but unless you have an ability to reverse-engineer these CPUs (and we don't have that ability for human brains) both would be just chunks of silicon.
In order to not only publish anything, but get a study through initial approval stages you have to do comprehensive review of existing work. Pick up any peer-reviewed article and read introduction - normally you have at least 10+ (out of possibly hundreds) relevant articles directly mentioned/credited.
My SO who is an engineer and a research scientist who is currently finishing graduate degree. This is fairly late-in-career move, with SO entering program already with large number of successful projects, dozen published peer-reviewed articles, and established reputation in the field.
Frequent comment I hear is "I wish I didn't have to do all the busy work and could just focus on my research" when I talk about school to my SO.
Perhaps temptation to plagiarize in online courses like Cursera is mainly driven by dislike of busy-work? If you adequately test, why do you also make people jump through the unnecessary steps? It makes very little sense to swamp people with pointless work in such setting.
>>>No, the austerity measures and the medicare voucher system are the plan for fixing the debt.
Yes, I understand that how Ryan's plan is sold, but it doesn't add up when he turns around and pours all of these savings and then some more into lavish tax cuts for the top 1%.
This is nothing but another round of trickle-down economics, it didn't work before and it won't work now.
If you want to vote Republican ticket because of Ryan's Plan - make sure to read it. Ryan's Plan does include privatization of social security (no specifics on how, mandatory 401ks or 'contracted' to Goldman Sachs?) and turns medicare into voucher system (who will provide individual affordable healthcare coverage to sick and poor out of this population remains unclear). It also includes a lot of tax cuts to corporations and top 1%, Romney for example would pay less than 1% taxes under Ryan's plan. Last but not least Ryan's plan does not at all addresses defense spending - so no cuts there whatsoever.
Fundamental problem with Ryan's Plan is that as far as fiscally conservative plans go - it isn't one. Even if you take his "closing tax loopholes" projections at a face value, any and all savings are channeled into tax cuts, not reduction of deficit. Last but not least - austerity measures that are bound to lower GDP (just look what austerity did in GB), debt/GDP will continue increasing under Ryan's Plan due to hit to GDP and no corresponding reduction in debt.
In closing, also make sure to examine Ryan's voting record - every Bush tax cut, every expense, TARP, bailouts were voted YES. His rhetoric aside, fiscal conservative he is not.
Perhaps this is the next amazing biometric authentication technology that can accurately identify users without any false positives...
This still don't change the problem that like all other biometric data it cannot be re-issued if ever compromised.
Cloud-based anything is adding another potential source of security compromise that has to be mitigated. Who thinks that voice-recognition upstart would have expertise to design something that could be trusted with banking? it isn't their money on the line if you get hacked that way.
Really? Are you hiring for entertainment industry? If not, hobbies (or any other part of personal life) has nothing to do with it and you might as well go with a "unlucky 50% approach" someone suggested above. Most people don't list any hobbies because it has nothing to do with your ability to do the job, and unless you are fresh graduate your resume space is better used for something else.
You are clearly being unreasonable by asking for references upfront. It is expected to let your references know what position you are applying for so they know who and when going to contact them, doing so for every "maybe" position is going to quickly use up their goodwill. Don't waste everybody's time - ask for references _only_ if you are serious about hiring your potential candidate.
Sadly, this is all but done deal.
Traditional Canadian values are being traded for closer ties with US. Conservative Harper government has an ability to pass this, in exchange getting border harmonization (less restrictions on shipping) with US.
This kind of discrimination always existed, the news is that company in question actually admitted it as a dismissal cause, instead of the usual 'performance' cause.
I am using 3.6 and when they stop supporting it, I plan to stop using Firefox. The only reason I am using it in a first place is NoScript, otherwise I would have moved to Chrome ages ago. NoScript allows me to be sloppy with updating hosts killfile, it is by no means mandatory.
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No, it is my personal banking, and I "don't care enough" to disable security feature - auto-update of Chrome because while I see it as unnecessary and inconvenient in my usecase, it is not detrimental to security to keep it on.
While I might not actively remember security benefit, I do remember inconvenience of waiting for it to update. Blame human psychology.
Decision process is following: Inconvenience of slow Chrome startups due to updating Vs. Inconvenience with disabling it and remembering to keep track of necessary updates.
Not only corporate. I have dedicated banking machine running Chrome (decision was made back when it was the only major browser using sand boxing) that is only used couple times a month. Silent updates majorly bog it down. Yes, if I cared enough I'd find a way to block it.
Can someone tell me what the difference between Firefox and Chrome these days? I want my supported 3.6 back.
Could jury know trial would likely go to appeals? They might have known that this trial is a waste of time and not likely to get resolved prior to Supreme Court.
>>>Maybe we're reading a different thread but I haven't seen any "MS sniping".
While BSOD of nuclear reactor jokes are funny... well they are funny. Welcome to Slashdot.
>>> My question is this: when you say "somebody is working on nuclear power", am I to believe that BG and his team are the only people actually working on the state of the art in reactors?
Good question. No they are not.
AP1000 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AP1000
US recently approved 2 reactors in Georgia, but that was for the first time since 1978!!! .
Point I was making is that nuclear reactor development was paused for more than a decade based on irrational fear of nuclear technology. This resulted in a lot of dated designs getting extended past designed operational life. It is nice to see work resumed on improving nuclear technology, and that someone is working on it.
I really appreciate that someone is working on advancing nuclear energy. Oil and gas are fine for now, but eventually we will need reliable non-oil/gas based energy solution. I believe nuclear, once sufficiently mature, could be that alternative.
At the risk of giving them more ideas, wouldn't it be simpler to uninstall and erase all traces? Maybe also defrag hard disk on the way out. Corrupted PCs are all but guaranteed to attract attention of IT, who have much greater chance to detect intrusion than your average user.
Try re-reading it...
3000 years
human civilization > 3000;
Thing is, there is very little you could test unless you get this 3,000 year old brain to boot up. Think of it this way - you are handed 2 non-working CPUs, could you tell if they are different? Perhaps if they have physically different (but human brains naturally deviate from the norm), but unless you have an ability to reverse-engineer these CPUs (and we don't have that ability for human brains) both would be just chunks of silicon.
Related: Have you seen TED talk by Juan Enriquez?
http://www.ted.com/talks/juan_enriquez_will_our_kids_be_a_different_species.html
3000 years is less than human civilization. This brain is younger than parts of Old Testament.
If you want to study human brains like that, why not take a trip to a morgue? We are in no short of cadavers donated to science.
In order to not only publish anything, but get a study through initial approval stages you have to do comprehensive review of existing work. Pick up any peer-reviewed article and read introduction - normally you have at least 10+ (out of possibly hundreds) relevant articles directly mentioned/credited.
My SO who is an engineer and a research scientist who is currently finishing graduate degree. This is fairly late-in-career move, with SO entering program already with large number of successful projects, dozen published peer-reviewed articles, and established reputation in the field.
Frequent comment I hear is "I wish I didn't have to do all the busy work and could just focus on my research" when I talk about school to my SO.
Perhaps temptation to plagiarize in online courses like Cursera is mainly driven by dislike of busy-work? If you adequately test, why do you also make people jump through the unnecessary steps? It makes very little sense to swamp people with pointless work in such setting.
>>>No, the austerity measures and the medicare voucher system are the plan for fixing the debt.
Yes, I understand that how Ryan's plan is sold, but it doesn't add up when he turns around and pours all of these savings and then some more into lavish tax cuts for the top 1%.
This is nothing but another round of trickle-down economics, it didn't work before and it won't work now.
If you want to vote Republican ticket because of Ryan's Plan - make sure to read it. Ryan's Plan does include privatization of social security (no specifics on how, mandatory 401ks or 'contracted' to Goldman Sachs?) and turns medicare into voucher system (who will provide individual affordable healthcare coverage to sick and poor out of this population remains unclear). It also includes a lot of tax cuts to corporations and top 1%, Romney for example would pay less than 1% taxes under Ryan's plan. Last but not least Ryan's plan does not at all addresses defense spending - so no cuts there whatsoever. Fundamental problem with Ryan's Plan is that as far as fiscally conservative plans go - it isn't one. Even if you take his "closing tax loopholes" projections at a face value, any and all savings are channeled into tax cuts, not reduction of deficit. Last but not least - austerity measures that are bound to lower GDP (just look what austerity did in GB), debt/GDP will continue increasing under Ryan's Plan due to hit to GDP and no corresponding reduction in debt. In closing, also make sure to examine Ryan's voting record - every Bush tax cut, every expense, TARP, bailouts were voted YES. His rhetoric aside, fiscal conservative he is not.
Perhaps this is the next amazing biometric authentication technology that can accurately identify users without any false positives... This still don't change the problem that like all other biometric data it cannot be re-issued if ever compromised.
Cloud-based anything is adding another potential source of security compromise that has to be mitigated. Who thinks that voice-recognition upstart would have expertise to design something that could be trusted with banking? it isn't their money on the line if you get hacked that way.
How about Windows Defenestration UI?
I have better UI name in mind... Windows Start UI
MS is ready to hit START BUTTON with Win8 production.
Really? Are you hiring for entertainment industry? If not, hobbies (or any other part of personal life) has nothing to do with it and you might as well go with a "unlucky 50% approach" someone suggested above. Most people don't list any hobbies because it has nothing to do with your ability to do the job, and unless you are fresh graduate your resume space is better used for something else.
You are clearly being unreasonable by asking for references upfront. It is expected to let your references know what position you are applying for so they know who and when going to contact them, doing so for every "maybe" position is going to quickly use up their goodwill. Don't waste everybody's time - ask for references _only_ if you are serious about hiring your potential candidate.
Sadly, this is all but done deal. Traditional Canadian values are being traded for closer ties with US. Conservative Harper government has an ability to pass this, in exchange getting border harmonization (less restrictions on shipping) with US.
Thank you! RIP Firefox, killed by version bloat.
This kind of discrimination always existed, the news is that company in question actually admitted it as a dismissal cause, instead of the usual 'performance' cause.
I am using 3.6 and when they stop supporting it, I plan to stop using Firefox. The only reason I am using it in a first place is NoScript, otherwise I would have moved to Chrome ages ago. NoScript allows me to be sloppy with updating hosts killfile, it is by no means mandatory.
Exactly, hence my comment about forgetting.