Your 'friend' has already screwed up. ( sorry to put it that baldly, but he has ) He was hired to deal with security issues, not legal ones. He never should have discussed client notification with them. When he starts expressing opinions about that, he is way outside of what he contracted to do. He may not have recognized this breach of manners, but, I assure you, they have.
Now, if he - or anybody else - leaks this, management will assume that it was him.
And when you do something that someone somewhere has done sometime before, it should come as no surprise. There are billions of people in this world and everything has been done before. Including suing Borat.
You're seventeen? That's way too you to commit yourself to a career. ( Not meaning to imply that you're stupid or have poor judgement, just that you haven't had time to see a lot of the world and the different ways that it can be viewed ) If programming interests you, do it for fun.
Speaking as an employer, technical skills - beyond a bare minimum - are seldom the most important thing that you can bring to a job interview. Being articulate both verbal and written - helps a lot. Having a history of jobs ( even flipping burgers ) in which your former boss will give you a good recommendation - showed up on time, cooperated with fellow employees, didn't steal, didn't drink or toke on the job, etc - really may be the most important thing.
You're only seventeen and the world is your oyster. Don't commit too early. Try several jobs, try several majors, travel a bit; find out more about the world. Then choose.
Bill: I'm worried, Steve. We're losing more ground to Linux. It's on the verge of becoming a non-nerd OS.
Steve: I'v got an idea. Let's buy another version of Linux.
Bill: Are you crazy? The SCO gambit didn't fool anybody.
Steve: No, not like that. Instead of trying to fool a judge about the nature of Linux, we'll try to fool our customers.
Bill: So? That's already company policy.
Steve: Yes, but we'll release our own version. We tell the public that we're joining the Linux bandwagon, and with our marketing clout, it will soon become the dominant version on the market. Then when the public is convinced that MSLinux IS Linux, we make gradual changes to turn it into an unusable bloated wreck. Linux will be finished!
Bill: Sounds good so far, but where are we going to get a bunch of programmers to do that?
Steve: We have all the guys who wrote Vista. I think they could do it.
I remember hearing about some guys named Brian and Dennis and uh I forget the third guy's name - it was back in the 60's - trying to write an operating system based on the idea that each part should do one distinct thing, and do it well. I don't know if anything ever came of it, but I thought that it sounded like a good idea.
There is a major distinction between MY computer and the rest of the world. One is mine; the rest belongs to others. I treat them differently. I want my desktop to reflect it.
There are already too many people who seem to forget that my stuff is mine - spammers, politicians, cold callers, door-to-door salesmen, etc - and that I might want it separate from the rest of the world. I don't want my OS forgetting this too.
He wasn't so interested in lie detection, he just liked tying people up. A lie detector that didn't require strapping things on people wouldn't interest him. Look at what happened to so many women in the WW comics.
Ok, so life can exist where it is really cold. But it will be SLOW. It will do things slowly, it will evolve slowly. And it will probably be too slow to have become intelligent yet. In short: it will be boring.
We can learn a lot more by studying something with a time scale several orders of magnitude faster.
We should be looking for life that can exist at our temp and time scale, or even higher and faster. It is likely to have evolved more, and has a better chance of being intelligent. Focus on finding life on Venus, not Mars. If it is not there, start it by seeding with a few designed high-temp organisms. We could learn a lot by studying it.
And if it eventually out-evolves us, then it probably will regard us as boring, and will leave us alone.
For those who didn't want to read it, it says that too many senators objected to being RFID'ed.
Particularly Mr.Foley, who is trying to turn a new page in his life.
In the interests of equal time, since Mr Fitzpatric gets free advertising, I quote from the article parent mentioned: The founders say they view their main competitors as major pay-to-list sites such as Apartments.com and ForRent.com, along with other classified listing sites such as Craigslist.org.
Let's get to the root here. If this works, I'm going to sue Mozilla - maker of Firefox - because their program presents my blog to people. Ahh..no I'm going to sue Microsoft for making IE which does the same thing. And they have more money.
Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
( and, yes, it does say 'state', but the US Supreme Court has ruled that this usually applies to federal law also. )
"This comment is full of hate for those whose views differs from the poster's."
Nah. Not hate. Contempt perhaps, disgust maybe; but not hate.
When I hate someone ( which is rare ) then I express the desire that I kill them.
The post in question merely carries disgust, in which I invite the writer to off himself. ( And even that only under certain conditions )
In a deep sense, the post does indeed express a great love for the human race, for I am trying to point out exactly which intelligent beings are suffering.
And that, BTW, is probably what earned the +5 insightful mod.
"What if every human being, all 6.5 billion of us, were suddenly abducted and the planet was left to fend for itself? The planet would heal."
This excess anthropomorphising has reached a new heights for slashdrivel.
We are not hurting the planet with pollution. We are primarily hurting each other. As TFA notes, we have left very few permanent traces on the earth. Pollution is - or ought to be - a tort.
PS: and we should continue as the dominant species on the planet. If we don't the chimps will take over.
PPS: and if Mr. Orrock, the writer of the article, thinks that the global demise of the human species is a good idea, I invite him to act locally. Very locally.
From TFA: "Random spot checks...This involves taking a random number of machines out of commission just before polls open on election morning to run a sample election on them to make sure the machines are recording and counting votes accurately.
Before the polls open? How about during the election? At random times during the day?
The poll workers should be required to have an extra one on hand just in case one breaks. It would be used to stand in for the one that was being checked. ( It could also be chosen for a random check. )
It's getting more real than we may like to contemplate.
These game writers are essentially bankers. They are printing virtual money with no real limits, and now there appears to be enough connections ( permitted or not ) to real money that they are increasing the real-world money supply ( M1 ). They are not, at the same time, increasing the supply of tangible real-world goods.
The increase in the money supply without a proportionate increase in real-world goods causes inflation. Inflation is usually followed by ( some say 'cured by' ) a collapse and long depression.
"(BTW, how much weight do you gain to go from "normal" to "obese"? Because there is an "overweight" level between, under 30 BMI IIRC).
From 218 to 254 pounds on a 6'5" frame with no change in belt size. BMI of 25.x to 30.x. Although, to be perfectly accurate, I don't have swings into the obese range every year - I was lifting that year in addition to the usual.
The Body Mass Index is not accurate. It is basically mass vs height, and makes no distinction between fat and muscle, both of which increase mass measurements.
During the rainy season, I don't exersize, so I lose muscle mass and get skinny, and I look - pardon me for saying it - like a geek. And my BMI is normal ( and allegedly healthy ). But during the other ten months, I am more muscular ( and probably a lot healthier ) and yet I am technically obese, according to the BMI.
Do I feel smarter? Heck, I'm a slashdotter - I think I'm smart all the time.
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Borack? Is that you?
Your 'friend' has already screwed up. ( sorry to put it that baldly, but he has ) He was hired to deal with security issues, not legal ones. He never should have discussed client notification with them. When he starts expressing opinions about that, he is way outside of what he contracted to do. He may not have recognized this breach of manners, but, I assure you, they have.
Now, if he - or anybody else - leaks this, management will assume that it was him.
Sorry.. couldn't resist it.
Seriously, I wonder if there could be evidence of organisms tolerant of saltier conditions if all that ice left the remaining water saltier.
And when you do something that someone somewhere has done sometime before, it should come as no surprise. There are billions of people in this world and everything has been done before. Including suing Borat.
You're seventeen? That's way too you to commit yourself to a career. ( Not meaning to imply that you're stupid or have poor judgement, just that you haven't had time to see a lot of the world and the different ways that it can be viewed ) If programming interests you, do it for fun.
Speaking as an employer, technical skills - beyond a bare minimum - are seldom the most important thing that you can bring to a job interview. Being articulate both verbal and written - helps a lot. Having a history of jobs ( even flipping burgers ) in which your former boss will give you a good recommendation - showed up on time, cooperated with fellow employees, didn't steal, didn't drink or toke on the job, etc - really may be the most important thing.
You're only seventeen and the world is your oyster. Don't commit too early. Try several jobs, try several majors, travel a bit; find out more about the world. Then choose.
Bill: I'm worried, Steve. We're losing more ground to Linux. It's on the verge of becoming a non-nerd OS.
Steve: I'v got an idea. Let's buy another version of Linux.
Bill: Are you crazy? The SCO gambit didn't fool anybody.
Steve: No, not like that. Instead of trying to fool a judge about the nature of Linux, we'll try to fool our customers.
Bill: So? That's already company policy.
Steve: Yes, but we'll release our own version. We tell the public that we're joining the Linux bandwagon, and with our marketing clout, it will soon become the dominant version on the market. Then when the public is convinced that MSLinux IS Linux, we make gradual changes to turn it into an unusable bloated wreck. Linux will be finished!
Bill: Sounds good so far, but where are we going to get a bunch of programmers to do that?
Steve: We have all the guys who wrote Vista. I think they could do it.
Why must we have tools that try to do everything?
I remember hearing about some guys named Brian and Dennis and uh I forget the third guy's name - it was back in the 60's - trying to write an operating system based on the idea that each part should do one distinct thing, and do it well. I don't know if anything ever came of it, but I thought that it sounded like a good idea.
There is a major distinction between MY computer and the rest of the world. One is mine; the rest belongs to others. I treat them differently. I want my desktop to reflect it.
There are already too many people who seem to forget that my stuff is mine - spammers, politicians, cold callers, door-to-door salesmen, etc - and that I might want it separate from the rest of the world. I don't want my OS forgetting this too.
He wasn't so interested in lie detection, he just liked tying people up. A lie detector that didn't require strapping things on people wouldn't interest him. Look at what happened to so many women in the WW comics.
Ok, so life can exist where it is really cold. But it will be SLOW. It will do things slowly, it will evolve slowly. And it will probably be too slow to have become intelligent yet. In short: it will be boring.
We can learn a lot more by studying something with a time scale several orders of magnitude faster.
We should be looking for life that can exist at our temp and time scale, or even higher and faster. It is likely to have evolved more, and has a better chance of being intelligent. Focus on finding life on Venus, not Mars. If it is not there, start it by seeding with a few designed high-temp organisms. We could learn a lot by studying it.
And if it eventually out-evolves us, then it probably will regard us as boring, and will leave us alone.
For those who didn't want to read it, it says that too many senators objected to being RFID'ed. Particularly Mr.Foley, who is trying to turn a new page in his life.
In the interests of equal time, since Mr Fitzpatric gets free advertising, I quote from the article parent mentioned: The founders say they view their main competitors as major pay-to-list sites such as Apartments.com and ForRent.com, along with other classified listing sites such as Craigslist.org.
Let's get to the root here. If this works, I'm going to sue Mozilla - maker of Firefox - because their program presents my blog to people. Ahh..no I'm going to sue Microsoft for making IE which does the same thing. And they have more money.
Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
( and, yes, it does say 'state', but the US Supreme Court has ruled that this usually applies to federal law also. )
You just have to worry about it being closed.
You've talked to both of them?
I'm trying to take apicture one pixel at a time!
May I recommend the works of a guy named Issac Newton? He had a few amusing errors also.
"This comment is full of hate for those whose views differs from the poster's."
Nah. Not hate. Contempt perhaps, disgust maybe; but not hate.
When I hate someone ( which is rare ) then I express the desire that I kill them.
The post in question merely carries disgust, in which I invite the writer to off himself. ( And even that only under certain conditions )
In a deep sense, the post does indeed express a great love for the human race, for I am trying to point out exactly which intelligent beings are suffering.
And that, BTW, is probably what earned the +5 insightful mod.
"What if every human being, all 6.5 billion of us, were suddenly abducted and the planet was left to fend for itself? The planet would heal."
This excess anthropomorphising has reached a new heights for slashdrivel.
We are not hurting the planet with pollution. We are primarily hurting each other. As TFA notes, we have left very few permanent traces on the earth. Pollution is - or ought to be - a tort.
PS: and we should continue as the dominant species on the planet. If we don't the chimps will take over.
PPS: and if Mr. Orrock, the writer of the article, thinks that the global demise of the human species is a good idea, I invite him to act locally. Very locally.
From TFA: "Random spot checks...This involves taking a random number of machines out of commission just before polls open on election morning to run a sample election on them to make sure the machines are recording and counting votes accurately.
Before the polls open? How about during the election? At random times during the day?
The poll workers should be required to have an extra one on hand just in case one breaks. It would be used to stand in for the one that was being checked. ( It could also be chosen for a random check. )
It's getting more real than we may like to contemplate.
These game writers are essentially bankers. They are printing virtual money with no real limits, and now there appears to be enough connections ( permitted or not ) to real money that they are increasing the real-world money supply ( M1 ). They are not, at the same time, increasing the supply of tangible real-world goods.
The increase in the money supply without a proportionate increase in real-world goods causes inflation. Inflation is usually followed by ( some say 'cured by' ) a collapse and long depression.
"(BTW, how much weight do you gain to go from "normal" to "obese"? Because there is an "overweight" level between, under 30 BMI IIRC).
From 218 to 254 pounds on a 6'5" frame with no change in belt size. BMI of 25.x to 30.x. Although, to be perfectly accurate, I don't have swings into the obese range every year - I was lifting that year in addition to the usual.
One arm for a cutlas, one to hold onto the rigging, one for the telescope, and one for me bottle of rum.
The Body Mass Index is not accurate. It is basically mass vs height, and makes no distinction between fat and muscle, both of which increase mass measurements.
During the rainy season, I don't exersize, so I lose muscle mass and get skinny, and I look - pardon me for saying it - like a geek. And my BMI is normal ( and allegedly healthy ). But during the other ten months, I am more muscular ( and probably a lot healthier ) and yet I am technically obese, according to the BMI.
Do I feel smarter? Heck, I'm a slashdotter - I think I'm smart all the time.
Perhaps you meant 214? Or something in that range? Last I heard, the island was in the 200-300 range ( but my memeory is fuzzy )