Did you even read the summary of the article? It's about "Why should I hire you, old man, versus this young person?". You did not say use age against them, but mentioning it to them may make them believe you are - which is the problem here.
I understand that the law was created to protect older candidates, but it specifically states it is illegal:
to fail or refuse to hire or to discharge any individual or otherwise discriminate against any individual with respect to his compensation, terms, conditions, or privileges of employment, because of such individual's age
It's not politically correct, and it's also not legally correct. All of the other questions don't matter once you throw age out there. It'd be very easy for them to face you with a lawsuit.
For kicks, here's a clear-cut quote:
(c) It shall be unlawful for a labor organization-
(1) to exclude or to expel from its membership, or otherwise to discriminate against, any individual because of his age;
And here you are talking about the ad that you distinctly remember.
That apparently was an effective ad. Effective ads don't have to make you want to buy the product, simply remember the ad. Like those damn "Head On" ads that everyone hates, yet can't ignore.
In this case, the point of the ad doesn't seem to much to promote the product so much as make it seem commonplace. So, like your initial comment, I don't know how effective that is - might have to check some studies.
Except for the fact that you can export them from Google Apps to your local machine. You do normally save your documents after you create or edit them, right?
This was discussed previously, as well - the difference is that a specific vulnerability has been found at this point.
As usual, take precautions to ensure you're not automatically opening PDFs in your browser - Save by default instead, so you can scan it and actually make the decision to open it yourself.
For Firefox users:
Tools->Options->Applications. Change actions for PDFs to Save.
So what is the jet really for, though? For fun? According to another article...
Science, of course! H211 LLC uses many of its jets for NASA-sponsored experiments, since they operate primarily out of Moffett field, a NASA-controlled airstrip that's conveniently located right next to Google's Mountain View HQ. The jet was acquired to carry scientific instruments that could not be rigged up to Boeing 757/767 and Gulfstream jets the company already operates, some of which were used to monitor the re-entry of the ESA's Jules Verne satellite.
With the march of time and processor power, the current Enlightement 0.17 release, aka "E17," has come to be considered a lightweight alternative to GNOME and KDE, used for example in gOS 3.0 , a commercial Linux distribution aimed at "low-powered" netbooks. Yet, it appears that E17 could be primed for a renaissance of relevance in even smaller devices.
But then you have the difference that you're PAYING for Windows, while Debian is an open source project that you get can for free. The thing here is "Hey look, these people are waiting to give us something for free until they've ironed out the bugs". You can go grab Sid if you want - can you get Windows 7 for free already, with free updates?
Ubuntu server edition is stripped down and customizable, as well. I assume they didn't use the desktop edition.
This may be an outdated experience, but...I ran a single server with Gentoo for a while - until updating became such a tremendous pain. Manually merging configuration changes and such is simply not a good way to spend time, and neither is reading release notes to see whether I can simply use the old config and ignore new changes. Ubuntu is nice because installing and updating apps is easy, there is a wide variety of apps available for it, and it's quick and easy to install. Gentoo distro installation was a very lengthy, manual process - has this changed?
I'd agree with others that say that CentOS may have been a better choice, but in my eyes the choice between the two comes down to preference of package management systems rather than any difference in security or performance.
One thing Guild Wars does to curb botting is to detect people who are farming and simply give them less or no loot. I guess the difference in this case is that in WoW a lot of what you do is grind, and killing the same thing over and over wouldn't be out of the norm.
I don't know if those forced NPC conversations would be accepted by players, since it would be more of an annoyance than anything. Seems like the best way is to either detect and curb it or try to make the game less repetitive, so it doesn't require botting (or so botting doesn't end up being so helpful). In GW all you get from farming is money and items. New items are nice, but you can usually get better ones by questing, and bosses will likely drop the item you want anyway (assuming you're not teamed up with lots of NPCs). Having a lot of money is only really useful for making your characters look pretty, and trading if you're lazy (prices can go pretty high due to economy being screwed up by gold farmers - one bad thing).
After some brainstorming, they go with Google - a play on the word "googol," a mathematical term for the number represented by the numeral 1 followed by 100 zeros.
"Such as influenza" my ass! They're preparing for an outbreak of zombies! It's a global marketing test, in addition to a way of dealing with people who use too much bandwidth!
Penny Arcade actually runs a large charitable fund for children sick in hospitals. While the comics themselves may not be suitable for Wikipedia, they have other notable things they've done.
While I'll agree that it may be a bit absurd that the Freemasons are left out, you're picking the wrong example to compare against.
My ABET accredited university tested me thoroughly and awarded my degrees. I can go create safety-critical designs and software for aircraft and still not be called a professional or "software engineer" because some other organization didn't give me a set of multiple choice tests?
I agree with you that being tested is a legit practice for both employers and employees (as someone pointed out: you want to know they at least have some standards), but claiming that one isn't a professional just because they haven't taken a standard exam mandated by an obscure organization is absurd. Many of these organizations serve their purposes - to filter out the morons. On the other hand, it's not uncommon for these people to be simply protecting their jobs from newcomers by increasing test standards and limiting the amount of people who can pass per year (yes, it's done in medical schools, and I can only assume it's done with lawyers and accountants).
Overall, I agree with the process of pre-screening these people, as I've seen some very unintelligent people get through undergraduate programs without being able to do any designing or programming. However, comparing the actual professionals to secretaries and salesmen is laughable.
So...they're evil because their crawler posted a recently placed news article that didn't have a published date? Or are they evil because the automated trading applications grabbed it and ran to the bank?
On all ends it was a failure of new technology, but what really caused all of the $$ to fly was human error: no one at Tribune put a date on the initial article, no one (or at least quickly enough) from Google put a date on the crawled article, and the stock investors didn't look carefully at their applications.
Yeah, the post from Google regarding this is here.
Note this:
You'll notice if you look at our other products that many of them are governed by Section 11 of our Universal Terms of Service. This section is included because, under copyright law, Google needs what's called a "license" to display or transmit content.
Vimeo does seem like it has good resolution, but remember that Youtube does have the "Watch in High Quality" link on videos that are uploaded correctly (640x480, mp3 audio).
The DeadlyPandas site has quick and easy info about properly encoding a video for YouTube using VirtualDub (skip the initial "game recording" stuff).
The attack appears to initially use stolen SSH keys to gain access to a system
Ok...so if you get the key to a machine you can get in and abuse an old vulnerability, assuming the machine in unpatched. The rootkit that they discuss is from 2005, so where's the news here? Be careful about your SSH keys and passwords?
Seriously, if there's more to this I'd like to know. The article hardly has more information than the summary.
Read the summary. It's going to be on the handsets, but not accessible via the API. In other words, you can't develop a program that specifically uses bluetooth. This doesn't mean you won't be able to have something like Skype, and use a bluetooth headset - that's simply the audio input/output that the device will use.
Bluetooth isn't really that big of a deal in this instance. I'd be interested in seeing what applications people would make that need to communicate via bluetooth, though - maybe some interesting games or computer-sync apps...
Everything I've seen clearly shows me that Vista is an OS that should never have left the barn
Or better yet - BURN THE BARN!
On a serious note, it is sort of sad that Vista has performed so poorly. I mean, I really enjoy Linux, but on my gaming desktop I'd like to have the best OS for the job (with DX10 if it's used). As a gamer, the whole thing put a sour taste in my mouth. I guess I can say I'm happy with Linux, but a bit sad that nothing useful came out of Microsoft's work, except for being able to lord it over them.
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I understand that the law was created to protect older candidates, but it specifically states it is illegal:
to fail or refuse to hire or to discharge any individual or otherwise discriminate against any individual with respect to his compensation, terms, conditions, or privileges of employment, because of such individual's age
You should read the summary and link.
For kicks, here's a clear-cut quote:
(c) It shall be unlawful for a labor organization-
(1) to exclude or to expel from its membership, or otherwise to discriminate against, any individual because of his age;
I think they can go on...
And here you are talking about the ad that you distinctly remember.
That apparently was an effective ad. Effective ads don't have to make you want to buy the product, simply remember the ad. Like those damn "Head On" ads that everyone hates, yet can't ignore.
In this case, the point of the ad doesn't seem to much to promote the product so much as make it seem commonplace. So, like your initial comment, I don't know how effective that is - might have to check some studies.
Except for the fact that you can export them from Google Apps to your local machine. You do normally save your documents after you create or edit them, right?
As usual, take precautions to ensure you're not automatically opening PDFs in your browser - Save by default instead, so you can scan it and actually make the decision to open it yourself.
For Firefox users:
Tools->Options->Applications. Change actions for PDFs to Save.
A Sicilian? On Slashdot? Inconceivable!
Science, of course! H211 LLC uses many of its jets for NASA-sponsored experiments, since they operate primarily out of Moffett field, a NASA-controlled airstrip that's conveniently located right next to Google's Mountain View HQ. The jet was acquired to carry scientific instruments that could not be rigged up to Boeing 757/767 and Gulfstream jets the company already operates, some of which were used to monitor the re-entry of the ESA's Jules Verne satellite.
With the march of time and processor power, the current Enlightement 0.17 release, aka "E17," has come to be considered a lightweight alternative to GNOME and KDE, used for example in gOS 3.0 , a commercial Linux distribution aimed at "low-powered" netbooks. Yet, it appears that E17 could be primed for a renaissance of relevance in even smaller devices.
But then you have the difference that you're PAYING for Windows, while Debian is an open source project that you get can for free. The thing here is "Hey look, these people are waiting to give us something for free until they've ironed out the bugs". You can go grab Sid if you want - can you get Windows 7 for free already, with free updates?
Comparing apples to oranges doesn't always work.
Ubuntu server edition is stripped down and customizable, as well. I assume they didn't use the desktop edition.
This may be an outdated experience, but...I ran a single server with Gentoo for a while - until updating became such a tremendous pain. Manually merging configuration changes and such is simply not a good way to spend time, and neither is reading release notes to see whether I can simply use the old config and ignore new changes. Ubuntu is nice because installing and updating apps is easy, there is a wide variety of apps available for it, and it's quick and easy to install. Gentoo distro installation was a very lengthy, manual process - has this changed?
I'd agree with others that say that CentOS may have been a better choice, but in my eyes the choice between the two comes down to preference of package management systems rather than any difference in security or performance.
One thing Guild Wars does to curb botting is to detect people who are farming and simply give them less or no loot. I guess the difference in this case is that in WoW a lot of what you do is grind, and killing the same thing over and over wouldn't be out of the norm.
I don't know if those forced NPC conversations would be accepted by players, since it would be more of an annoyance than anything. Seems like the best way is to either detect and curb it or try to make the game less repetitive, so it doesn't require botting (or so botting doesn't end up being so helpful). In GW all you get from farming is money and items. New items are nice, but you can usually get better ones by questing, and bosses will likely drop the item you want anyway (assuming you're not teamed up with lots of NPCs). Having a lot of money is only really useful for making your characters look pretty, and trading if you're lazy (prices can go pretty high due to economy being screwed up by gold farmers - one bad thing).
After some brainstorming, they go with Google - a play on the word "googol," a mathematical term for the number represented by the numeral 1 followed by 100 zeros.
http://www.google.com/tenthbirthday/#start
But, never fear, Microsoft can innovate it.
And patent it!
"Such as influenza" my ass! They're preparing for an outbreak of zombies! It's a global marketing test, in addition to a way of dealing with people who use too much bandwidth!
Penny Arcade actually runs a large charitable fund for children sick in hospitals. While the comics themselves may not be suitable for Wikipedia, they have other notable things they've done.
While I'll agree that it may be a bit absurd that the Freemasons are left out, you're picking the wrong example to compare against.
My ABET accredited university tested me thoroughly and awarded my degrees. I can go create safety-critical designs and software for aircraft and still not be called a professional or "software engineer" because some other organization didn't give me a set of multiple choice tests?
I agree with you that being tested is a legit practice for both employers and employees (as someone pointed out: you want to know they at least have some standards), but claiming that one isn't a professional just because they haven't taken a standard exam mandated by an obscure organization is absurd. Many of these organizations serve their purposes - to filter out the morons. On the other hand, it's not uncommon for these people to be simply protecting their jobs from newcomers by increasing test standards and limiting the amount of people who can pass per year (yes, it's done in medical schools, and I can only assume it's done with lawyers and accountants).
Overall, I agree with the process of pre-screening these people, as I've seen some very unintelligent people get through undergraduate programs without being able to do any designing or programming. However, comparing the actual professionals to secretaries and salesmen is laughable.
So...they're evil because their crawler posted a recently placed news article that didn't have a published date? Or are they evil because the automated trading applications grabbed it and ran to the bank?
On all ends it was a failure of new technology, but what really caused all of the $$ to fly was human error: no one at Tribune put a date on the initial article, no one (or at least quickly enough) from Google put a date on the crawled article, and the stock investors didn't look carefully at their applications.
Note this:
You'll notice if you look at our other products that many of them are governed by Section 11 of our Universal Terms of Service. This section is included because, under copyright law, Google needs what's called a "license" to display or transmit content.
I believe you have my stapler...
Vimeo does seem like it has good resolution, but remember that Youtube does have the "Watch in High Quality" link on videos that are uploaded correctly (640x480, mp3 audio).
The DeadlyPandas site has quick and easy info about properly encoding a video for YouTube using VirtualDub (skip the initial "game recording" stuff).
The attack appears to initially use stolen SSH keys to gain access to a system
Ok...so if you get the key to a machine you can get in and abuse an old vulnerability, assuming the machine in unpatched. The rootkit that they discuss is from 2005, so where's the news here? Be careful about your SSH keys and passwords?
Seriously, if there's more to this I'd like to know. The article hardly has more information than the summary.
Read the summary. It's going to be on the handsets, but not accessible via the API. In other words, you can't develop a program that specifically uses bluetooth.
This doesn't mean you won't be able to have something like Skype, and use a bluetooth headset - that's simply the audio input/output that the device will use.
Bluetooth isn't really that big of a deal in this instance. I'd be interested in seeing what applications people would make that need to communicate via bluetooth, though - maybe some interesting games or computer-sync apps...
Everything I've seen clearly shows me that Vista is an OS that should never have left the barn
Or better yet - BURN THE BARN!
On a serious note, it is sort of sad that Vista has performed so poorly. I mean, I really enjoy Linux, but on my gaming desktop I'd like to have the best OS for the job (with DX10 if it's used). As a gamer, the whole thing put a sour taste in my mouth. I guess I can say I'm happy with Linux, but a bit sad that nothing useful came out of Microsoft's work, except for being able to lord it over them.
Yeah, just check the attacker's bank statement - you'll see whether or not his attacks have succeeded!