The important question is, why doesn't his online banking site work in Firefox? Have you contacted the bank to ask them when (not if) they'll support Firefox?
Unfortunately, there are plenty of people who think of CSI as science fact, and when they get on juries they expect both sides to have CSI-like evidence.
Well, the Flash has travelled through time using the cosmic treadmill more often than Batman, Guy, or Spider-man have travelled through time, so it's reasonable to use his name in reference to time travel.
In case it's not obvious, what interviewing I've done has been for development positions. Interviewing for QA, project management, or people management would be substantially different. Then again, I wouldn't be a part of any of those interviews since I'm a developer.
Why wouldn't you be a part of those interviews, if they're going to be testing the code you write, managing your project, or managing you? I'm in QA and I've been involved in interviewing candidates for a position on my QA team, developers in the area my QA team covers, and I will be involved in interviewing candidates for a new manager for my QA team when someone applies and makes it to the interview stage.
Generally in interviews I'm responsible for testing knowledge in one of the programming languages we use, and I use two whiteboard tests like some of the others in this thread have mentioned. First I ask the candidates to code review a very short sample of code I've written (which has both blatant and subtle errors) then I ask them to come up with test cases. Then I turn things around and ask them to implement a sample of code for a simple problem and then I code review it to see how they react to the feedback.
Star Trek is a fictional television series, and the events depicted in the episodes have not occurred, are not occurring now, and may not occur in the future. Since the prop phasers, tricorders, etc. created for the television series wouldn't operate as real phasers, tricorders, etc. they probably wouldn't be acceptable as prior art for a patent for a phaser or a tricorder. However, since each prop is "a box with buttons in certain places", I don't see any reason why they shouldn't serve as prior art if someone tries to patent "a box with buttons in certain places". Of course, IANAL, and the law doesn't always make sense, but that's my $0.02.
Simply put, most of the planets and other celestial bodies in this star system cannot support life at all.
You left four words off near the end of your sentence. The other celestial bodies in this star system cannot support life as we know it at all. Scientists have found life forms in volcanic vents on the sea floor, where the temperature can reach 400 degrees Celcius. Who's to say that similar life forms don't exist somewhere on Venus, for instance?
You're right. Someone should think of the children. I nominate the child's mother, father, and family rather than the state. If an artist, writer, or other type of content creator wants to make sure their child can benefit from their work, they should negotiate the contract with their publisher to include terms to that effect, or they should invest a portion of their earnings for that purpose, just like the rest of us.
If an employee of your business does something that endangers the company, the management of the company (with HR's help) will make certain the employee understands whey their behavior is unacceptable.
If the maintainers of OpenOffice believe that Novell's actions are likely to negatively impact the project, they need to make certain Novell understands this. Rejecting all Novell submissions without looking at them and citing "legal concerns" as the reason for the rejection will get the message across. IANAL, but I believe it could also serve as some measure of defense when or if Microsoft sues -- I think willful infringement would be harder to prove if the implementor never saw the code they were supposed to have copied.
Does anybody from a model railroading magazine or website have an "evaluation" copy of the software Katzer is billing as his own that you received to review for an article?
If an open source project is worried about Microsoft attacking them via Novell code submissions, then the solution is clear: that project needs to refuse any and all code submissions from Novell without looking at them, and clearly identify as the reason the submission was rejected concerns over legal liability. Perhaps being treated as persona non grata by some members of the open source community will make Novell realize how important an issue this is for the people with whom they want to work.
Novell has the right to decide with whom they want to work -- as do the open source projects.
Third: The politicians work with the experts to draft the law. The politicians write a first draft explaining to the experts what they want the law to do. The experts explain any technical problems they see with the draft. The politicians revise the law with the feedback from the experts, then the experts review the revised draft. Repeat until the politicians are satisfied with the proposed law. [Ideally the experts would be satisfied too, but the politicians are the ones whose job requires them to be satisfied.]
As for choosing experts, you try to get all sides represented, ideally. For a law about DRM, you'd ask major content providers (i.e. the RIAA, the MPAA, etc.) as well a free-speech advocates. Of course, this assumes that you _want_ all sides represented; if you're a policitian who's been bought by a company/industry... I mean who's accepted large campaign contributions from a company/industry... then you'll be listening jst to your bosses.
1) In most if not all elections, if you don't know enough about either candidate, you can write in a vote for any one you want. Vote for yourself. Vote for your best friend.
2) When you vote, often you're not just voting for candidates for office. Often you are voting on ballot initiatives. For instance, in Massachusetts, where I live, there were three ballot questions that I voted on, in addition to voting for candidates.
As soon as some beverage company decides to model human taste buds in order to determine how they can modify their beverage to make it more appealing to consumers without actually modifying the process by which they brew their beverage, brewing a new batch, and conducting taste trials. Simulations are likely to cost less than actually making and testing the modifications to their recipes or processes.
Diebold could also screw with your bank account while you're withdrawing money through one of their ATM's. No question they could. Does this mean they're undermining the economy?
Funny you mention Diebold ATMs. The last time I used one of them, I received a receipt that told me the date and time of my transaction, the last four digits of the card I used for the transaction, the details of the transaction (how much money I withdrew) and how much is left in my account. Thus if Diebold wanted to screw with my bank account, I have a paper trail I can use to support my version of what happened during that transaction.
It sounds like it would be a relatively simple matter for Diebold to include that module of code and one of the printers they order for their ATMs in their voting machines. It kind of makes you wonder why they don't, doesn't it?
You assume that this would go to trial. Obviously, this is the work of a terrorist collaborator, so he's an "enemy combatant" and should be sent to Guantanamo Bay for the duration of the War on Terror.
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Anybody know of a stock trading BBS based on slashcode? In such a database may be a solution....
Finally a good use for mod points! Mod SCO and Microsoft down...
I'd be really scared if we ever had a computer programmer who became a lawyer (or vice versa) and became a member of Congress. No one would be able to interpret a piece of legislation that was created as an unholy mixture of obfuscated C/Perl/Fortran/etc. and legalese -- that congressperson would be able to put whatever they wanted in that piece of legislation and no one would be able to tell.
That's why it needs a strong set of automated tests, testing as much of the functionality as it can. Those pieces of functionality that can't be automatically tested should be thoroughly described so they can be manually tested. Then it will be safer to refactor the code; as long as the new code passes the tests, it will behave the same on those tasks as the old code.
I think both the Republican Network and the Democrat Channel need to be cancelled; there's entirely too many performers that don't care about the viewers or the shows, just the sponsors. I vote to cancel them each election, but I'm not part of the Nielsen US 1,000,000 (the group of millionaires in the US) so they ignore my vote.
You and five of your friends go to Vegas, each of you with an earpiece and a data acquisition system connected to the same computer. You go up to the wheel first and scan the wheel, giving the computer enough data to start to generate its predictions. While doing this, you play a couple of spins, maybe losing a few bucks.
You then walk away, and your friend Alice walks up to the table. She then plays as the computer tells her to, winning a few spins and losing a few. She then walks away and Bob joins that same table. With the data you and Alice collected combined with the data Bob collects while he's at the table, he plays a few hands, losing more than he wins (to throw off suspicion.) Repeat with Charlie, Danielle, and Ellen. You then all go home and split the winnings six ways.
The casinos can't stop everyone who wins a few spins at roulette from playing; people sometimes get lucky. If it's one person who wins 12 spins and loses 6, that may be suspicious; split those among six people and it's not as suspicious.
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The important question is, why doesn't his online banking site work in Firefox? Have you contacted the bank to ask them when (not if) they'll support Firefox?
Chuck Norris doesn't block Google. He just reviews every search performed using Google and removes the results he doesn't want included manually.
Unfortunately, there are plenty of people who think of CSI as science fact, and when they get on juries they expect both sides to have CSI-like evidence.
Well, the Flash has travelled through time using the cosmic treadmill more often than Batman, Guy, or Spider-man have travelled through time, so it's reasonable to use his name in reference to time travel.
Why wouldn't you be a part of those interviews, if they're going to be testing the code you write, managing your project, or managing you? I'm in QA and I've been involved in interviewing candidates for a position on my QA team, developers in the area my QA team covers, and I will be involved in interviewing candidates for a new manager for my QA team when someone applies and makes it to the interview stage.
Generally in interviews I'm responsible for testing knowledge in one of the programming languages we use, and I use two whiteboard tests like some of the others in this thread have mentioned. First I ask the candidates to code review a very short sample of code I've written (which has both blatant and subtle errors) then I ask them to come up with test cases. Then I turn things around and ask them to implement a sample of code for a simple problem and then I code review it to see how they react to the feedback.
No, but these guys have done the next best thing.
I wonder ... does anyone know what Microsoft uses to create what documentation they create? It would be ironic if they _didn't_ use Word.
Star Trek is a fictional television series, and the events depicted in the episodes have not occurred, are not occurring now, and may not occur in the future. Since the prop phasers, tricorders, etc. created for the television series wouldn't operate as real phasers, tricorders, etc. they probably wouldn't be acceptable as prior art for a patent for a phaser or a tricorder. However, since each prop is "a box with buttons in certain places", I don't see any reason why they shouldn't serve as prior art if someone tries to patent "a box with buttons in certain places". Of course, IANAL, and the law doesn't always make sense, but that's my $0.02.
Simply put, most of the planets and other celestial bodies in this star system cannot support life at all.
You left four words off near the end of your sentence. The other celestial bodies in this star system cannot support life as we know it at all. Scientists have found life forms in volcanic vents on the sea floor, where the temperature can reach 400 degrees Celcius. Who's to say that similar life forms don't exist somewhere on Venus, for instance?
You're right. Someone should think of the children. I nominate the child's mother, father, and family rather than the state. If an artist, writer, or other type of content creator wants to make sure their child can benefit from their work, they should negotiate the contract with their publisher to include terms to that effect, or they should invest a portion of their earnings for that purpose, just like the rest of us.
If an employee of your business does something that endangers the company, the management of the company (with HR's help) will make certain the employee understands whey their behavior is unacceptable.
If the maintainers of OpenOffice believe that Novell's actions are likely to negatively impact the project, they need to make certain Novell understands this. Rejecting all Novell submissions without looking at them and citing "legal concerns" as the reason for the rejection will get the message across. IANAL, but I believe it could also serve as some measure of defense when or if Microsoft sues -- I think willful infringement would be harder to prove if the implementor never saw the code they were supposed to have copied.
In that case, stop by the bank. Send them 280 pennies per song.
Does anybody from a model railroading magazine or website have an "evaluation" copy of the software Katzer is billing as his own that you received to review for an article?
If an open source project is worried about Microsoft attacking them via Novell code submissions, then the solution is clear: that project needs to refuse any and all code submissions from Novell without looking at them, and clearly identify as the reason the submission was rejected concerns over legal liability. Perhaps being treated as persona non grata by some members of the open source community will make Novell realize how important an issue this is for the people with whom they want to work.
Novell has the right to decide with whom they want to work -- as do the open source projects.
Third: The politicians work with the experts to draft the law. The politicians write a first draft explaining to the experts what they want the law to do. The experts explain any technical problems they see with the draft. The politicians revise the law with the feedback from the experts, then the experts review the revised draft. Repeat until the politicians are satisfied with the proposed law. [Ideally the experts would be satisfied too, but the politicians are the ones whose job requires them to be satisfied.]
... I mean who's accepted large campaign contributions from a company/industry ... then you'll be listening jst to your bosses.
As for choosing experts, you try to get all sides represented, ideally. For a law about DRM, you'd ask major content providers (i.e. the RIAA, the MPAA, etc.) as well a free-speech advocates. Of course, this assumes that you _want_ all sides represented; if you're a policitian who's been bought by a company/industry
Two points I'd like to make:
1) In most if not all elections, if you don't know enough about either candidate, you can write in a vote for any one you want. Vote for yourself. Vote for your best friend.
2) When you vote, often you're not just voting for candidates for office. Often you are voting on ballot initiatives. For instance, in Massachusetts, where I live, there were three ballot questions that I voted on, in addition to voting for candidates.
As soon as some beverage company decides to model human taste buds in order to determine how they can modify their beverage to make it more appealing to consumers without actually modifying the process by which they brew their beverage, brewing a new batch, and conducting taste trials. Simulations are likely to cost less than actually making and testing the modifications to their recipes or processes.
Diebold could also screw with your bank account while you're withdrawing money through one of their ATM's. No question they could. Does this mean they're undermining the economy?
Funny you mention Diebold ATMs. The last time I used one of them, I received a receipt that told me the date and time of my transaction, the last four digits of the card I used for the transaction, the details of the transaction (how much money I withdrew) and how much is left in my account. Thus if Diebold wanted to screw with my bank account, I have a paper trail I can use to support my version of what happened during that transaction.
It sounds like it would be a relatively simple matter for Diebold to include that module of code and one of the printers they order for their ATMs in their voting machines. It kind of makes you wonder why they don't, doesn't it?
You assume that this would go to trial. Obviously, this is the work of a terrorist collaborator, so he's an "enemy combatant" and should be sent to Guantanamo Bay for the duration of the War on Terror.
Anybody know of a stock trading BBS based on slashcode? In such a database may be a solution....
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Finally a good use for mod points! Mod SCO and Microsoft down
I'd be really scared if we ever had a computer programmer who became a lawyer (or vice versa) and became a member of Congress. No one would be able to interpret a piece of legislation that was created as an unholy mixture of obfuscated C/Perl/Fortran/etc. and legalese -- that congressperson would be able to put whatever they wanted in that piece of legislation and no one would be able to tell.
That's why it needs a strong set of automated tests, testing as much of the functionality as it can. Those pieces of functionality that can't be automatically tested should be thoroughly described so they can be manually tested. Then it will be safer to refactor the code; as long as the new code passes the tests, it will behave the same on those tasks as the old code.
Politics is a show, after all.
I think both the Republican Network and the Democrat Channel need to be cancelled; there's entirely too many performers that don't care about the viewers or the shows, just the sponsors. I vote to cancel them each election, but I'm not part of the Nielsen US 1,000,000 (the group of millionaires in the US) so they ignore my vote.
No, it's not the best source of news. But it's the best news source in America.
It's _one of_ the best news sources in America, IMO. This, while NSFW, is also pretty nice, although not necessarily for their news coverage.
You and five of your friends go to Vegas, each of you with an earpiece and a data acquisition system connected to the same computer. You go up to the wheel first and scan the wheel, giving the computer enough data to start to generate its predictions. While doing this, you play a couple of spins, maybe losing a few bucks.
You then walk away, and your friend Alice walks up to the table. She then plays as the computer tells her to, winning a few spins and losing a few. She then walks away and Bob joins that same table. With the data you and Alice collected combined with the data Bob collects while he's at the table, he plays a few hands, losing more than he wins (to throw off suspicion.) Repeat with Charlie, Danielle, and Ellen. You then all go home and split the winnings six ways.
The casinos can't stop everyone who wins a few spins at roulette from playing; people sometimes get lucky. If it's one person who wins 12 spins and loses 6, that may be suspicious; split those among six people and it's not as suspicious.