Pictures taken on your phones contain GPS information. So most people posting pics online of their kids or whatever are giving away the GPS location. If there's a bunch at exactly the same GPS location you can guess that it's the person's house.
Every profession gets their panties in a knot when technology progresses to the point where "average joe" can do their job for next to free in their spare time. The "risk" thing is just a red herring because the IT group is going to do little more than run server patches which on a low priority system like this should be automatically updated nightly or at least weekly with a cron job. In my experience the networking staff and even the system administrators have incredibly little knowledge of what's going on in these systems. Maybe it's different because I'm in development and interact on servers directly via shell or remote desktop constantly as compared to *normal* users who just use enterprise apps. In a just world IT should move the box to a location where the network drop can be behind a DMZ and charge this guy's department a yearly fee for the electricity/network/firewall/bandwidth.
Exactly. This would be an immediately fire-able offense at my office. And they'd spend probably $10k doing forensic work on the rogue machine you plugged into the network.
Every programming job I've had has been more vocational tech than computer theory. Every programming job I've had required a bare minimum of a computer science degree.
Could have been worse, you could have dropped out to work when they were all calling, only to get laid off and find yourself without a degree a year or two later.
Actually bankruptcy IS a get out of jail free card. That's the whole point of its existence. It sucks and it's not a *fun* process to go through, but the whole point is to let people "start over." The bankruptcy court may not toss out all of your debts, but surely the $50 Million a company like Sony racked up on you will get wiped out to next to nothing. In many states you get to keep your house and cars. In every state they can't go after your retirement or college savings accounts.
Just a slight correction, it's names, e-mail addresses, AND a business relationship. Now, for example, the hacker might know that my e-mail address is associated with company XYZ and can send me a more targeted phishing attack by pretending to be a representative of XYZ. They could have done that before, but they had no idea whether or not I had any business relationship with XYZ so it would have been a wild guess.
Something tells me that the guy who made international news by cracking the [insert well known product] isn't going to have that hard of a time finding a decent consulting job.
I've been fortunate enough not to have to deal with someone's SO, but I have had the joy of a completely incompetent person who pulled a race card and now cannot be fired for any reason.
Depends on whether it was civil or criminal. If it's criminal I'd sell out. If it's civil once you declare bankruptcy then it should be all over. You usually get to keep your house and cars in bankruptcy.
Does anyone really work for a company where they have a lot of influence on their bonuses? I've NEVER worked at a company whose bonus structure was based primarily on something I had control over. At best my bonus has been tied to the effectiveness of sales staff. At worst it's making budgets that I, as non-manager, have zero control over.
The point really lies in the fact that if Google can be a big hit in the social media market it will make not only a lot of money in its social media arm, but its other marketing products can be that much more knowledgeable about the users it serves ads to. That has the potential to make a LOT of money for Google. Also, each Googler is free to spend 20% of their time working on whatever they want, so they could all theoretically pitch in on this project.
Furthermore, at my company a portion of my bonus is based on the entire IT division in my company making budget. Since I'm not a manager who is in control of even the budget for my group I have 0 hope to have any meaningful impact on that portion of my bonus. That's just the way life goes.
While I agree that people from other walks of life should get a good introduction to mathematical programming I don't think it's very important that they get good at it so much as they get a basic understanding of what types of things are possible. The defense contractors (I only use them because I'm familiar with them) seem to have found a nice balance. They hire mechanical, aeronautical, etc. engineers who know just enough about programming to *get by* and then hire some pure computer scientist types to really help them make sure their code is good quality and to help tighten up their algorithms and such.
The plane you're referring to (shredding in flight) was 15 years old. Your hyperbole makes it sound like planes are falling out of the sky in droves. The bulk of 787 orders are coming from Asia because Asia is a growth market, while USA is a mature market. USA is in maintenance mode while Asia is still building up. The US infrastructure has been and will be maintained as quickly as is necessary. In the airline fleet, for example, if passengers are happily flying on the 15 year old planes, why bother buying new ones? It's not like driving around a 15 year old car where you barely do oil changes anymore. These things are refurbished regularly and are in fine shape.
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More specifically they each sit on the board of directors of each others' companies. And it's the board that decides the CEO's pay.
I think the raking in tons of profit disqualifies them from being incompetent, at least from the perspective of a stockholder.
Pictures taken on your phones contain GPS information. So most people posting pics online of their kids or whatever are giving away the GPS location. If there's a bunch at exactly the same GPS location you can guess that it's the person's house.
The future is bright, you must wear shades.
Apple generally doesn't win by having the best hardware stats.
Sounds to me like they tried to "pull an Apple" on the tight coupling but screwed it up.
Every profession gets their panties in a knot when technology progresses to the point where "average joe" can do their job for next to free in their spare time. The "risk" thing is just a red herring because the IT group is going to do little more than run server patches which on a low priority system like this should be automatically updated nightly or at least weekly with a cron job. In my experience the networking staff and even the system administrators have incredibly little knowledge of what's going on in these systems. Maybe it's different because I'm in development and interact on servers directly via shell or remote desktop constantly as compared to *normal* users who just use enterprise apps. In a just world IT should move the box to a location where the network drop can be behind a DMZ and charge this guy's department a yearly fee for the electricity/network/firewall/bandwidth.
Exactly. This would be an immediately fire-able offense at my office. And they'd spend probably $10k doing forensic work on the rogue machine you plugged into the network.
Q: What is the difference between the government cutting you a check for $1 and giving you a tax cut of $1?
A: Semantics
Every programming job I've had has been more vocational tech than computer theory. Every programming job I've had required a bare minimum of a computer science degree.
Could have been worse, you could have dropped out to work when they were all calling, only to get laid off and find yourself without a degree a year or two later.
Actually bankruptcy IS a get out of jail free card. That's the whole point of its existence. It sucks and it's not a *fun* process to go through, but the whole point is to let people "start over." The bankruptcy court may not toss out all of your debts, but surely the $50 Million a company like Sony racked up on you will get wiped out to next to nothing. In many states you get to keep your house and cars. In every state they can't go after your retirement or college savings accounts.
Just a slight correction, it's names, e-mail addresses, AND a business relationship. Now, for example, the hacker might know that my e-mail address is associated with company XYZ and can send me a more targeted phishing attack by pretending to be a representative of XYZ. They could have done that before, but they had no idea whether or not I had any business relationship with XYZ so it would have been a wild guess.
Something tells me that the guy who made international news by cracking the [insert well known product] isn't going to have that hard of a time finding a decent consulting job.
I've been fortunate enough not to have to deal with someone's SO, but I have had the joy of a completely incompetent person who pulled a race card and now cannot be fired for any reason.
Depends on whether it was civil or criminal. If it's criminal I'd sell out. If it's civil once you declare bankruptcy then it should be all over. You usually get to keep your house and cars in bankruptcy.
Thorium reactors do not create plutonium as a byproduct. That's why we're not allowed to use them. The military wants its plutonium.
As a person who is from a few nanoseconds into your future let me just say: wait until you see what happens next!
For some reason I giggled a bit when thinking about pinging through TOR. hop, hop, hop, hop, hop
I wish I went to a school where they gave me a computer to muck around with and lego robots to control.
I really hate Bugzilla. I used Mantis previously and was quite happy with it. I've also had good experiences with Jira.
Does anyone really work for a company where they have a lot of influence on their bonuses? I've NEVER worked at a company whose bonus structure was based primarily on something I had control over. At best my bonus has been tied to the effectiveness of sales staff. At worst it's making budgets that I, as non-manager, have zero control over.
The point really lies in the fact that if Google can be a big hit in the social media market it will make not only a lot of money in its social media arm, but its other marketing products can be that much more knowledgeable about the users it serves ads to. That has the potential to make a LOT of money for Google. Also, each Googler is free to spend 20% of their time working on whatever they want, so they could all theoretically pitch in on this project.
Furthermore, at my company a portion of my bonus is based on the entire IT division in my company making budget. Since I'm not a manager who is in control of even the budget for my group I have 0 hope to have any meaningful impact on that portion of my bonus. That's just the way life goes.
While I agree that people from other walks of life should get a good introduction to mathematical programming I don't think it's very important that they get good at it so much as they get a basic understanding of what types of things are possible. The defense contractors (I only use them because I'm familiar with them) seem to have found a nice balance. They hire mechanical, aeronautical, etc. engineers who know just enough about programming to *get by* and then hire some pure computer scientist types to really help them make sure their code is good quality and to help tighten up their algorithms and such.
The plane you're referring to (shredding in flight) was 15 years old. Your hyperbole makes it sound like planes are falling out of the sky in droves. The bulk of 787 orders are coming from Asia because Asia is a growth market, while USA is a mature market. USA is in maintenance mode while Asia is still building up. The US infrastructure has been and will be maintained as quickly as is necessary. In the airline fleet, for example, if passengers are happily flying on the 15 year old planes, why bother buying new ones? It's not like driving around a 15 year old car where you barely do oil changes anymore. These things are refurbished regularly and are in fine shape.