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Comment Wife is a teacher (Score 1) 310

by Kaleidoscopio (#36238186) Attached to: My current printer has printed ...
And so she prints lots of stuff on it, be it exercises for the kids or whatsoever.
Her school as printing facilities, but the people there are clueless, so she prints the originals at home and then just asks for copies.
The only things I ever print at home are vouchers for stuff bought online (planet tickets, hotel reservations, etc).

Comment Job Change FTW (Score 1) 247

by Kaleidoscopio (#35878188) Attached to: Promotion Or Job Change: Which Is the Best Way To Advance In IT?
Truly, job change has been the pivotal point in my career. Every time I change company (willingly) I get a promotion and a pay rise, only exception was when I delivered my resignation and my current company made me a generous counter-offer to keep me (I stayed). If I hadn't delivered my resignation I would still be doing the same thing for the same salary, few companies that I know promote inside people, most prefer to pick an outsider... :(

Comment Got a mail with new VPN passwords after I left (Score 1) 218

by Kaleidoscopio (#35232510) Attached to: 10% of IT Pros Can Access Previous Jobs' Accounts
Before leaving my company, I implemented a forward rule on my mail account so I would get any new mails untill the account was closed. I had lots of contacts and there is always someone who isn't aware that we left, that way I could warn anyone who mailed me.
To my complete surprise, 3 months after leaving I received a user and password for the VPN network which allowed me to log in to the corporate network and do whatever I pleased.
Why, you ask? Well they hired someone with the same name as me (first and last) and instead of deleting my account and creating a new one, they just reset the password and gave him my old account.
If I hadn't warned the IT Staff at my old company to remove the forward rule, I would still have access to everything...
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Immaculate Conception In a Boa Constrictor 478

Posted by samzenpus from the gold-frankincense-and-mice dept.
crudmonkey writes "Researchers have discovered a biological shocker: female boa constrictors are capable of giving birth asexually. But the surprise doesn't end there. The study in Biology Letters found that boa babies produced through this asexual reproduction — also known as parthenogenesis — sport a chromosomal oddity that researchers thought was impossible in reptiles. While researchers admit that the female in the study may have been a genetic freak, they say the findings should press researchers to re-think reptile reproduction. Virgin birth among reptiles, especially primitive ones like boas, they argue may be far commoner than ever expected."

Submission + - Chess ratings - move over Elo (kaggle.com)

Submitted by databuff
databuff writes: Less than 24 hours ago, Jeff Sonas, the creator of the Chessmetrics rating system, launched a competition to find a chess rating algorithm that performs better than the official Elo rating system. The competition requires entrants to build their rating systems based on the results of more than 65,000 historical chess games. Entrants then test their algorithms by predicting the results of another 7,809 games. Already three teams have managed create systems that make more accurate predictions than the official Elo approach. It's not a surprise that Elo has been outdone — after all, the system was invented half a century ago before we could easily crunch large amounts of historical data. However, it is a big surprise that Elo has been bettered done so quickly!
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Volvo Safety Demo Goes Poorly 34

Posted by samzenpus from the that-wasn't-supposed-to-happen dept.
Lanxon writes "At a demonstration of Volvo's new collision warning system in Sweden this week, Wired got first-hand experience (and video) of what happens when it goes badly wrong. The new Volvo S60, due for release later this year, was fired out of Volvo's testing tunnel at around 30MPH, and the collision detection system should have kicked in, bringing the car automatically to a halt before hitting the truck in its path. It didn't. Instead, the brand new car ploughed into the back of the truck in front of us, and indeed the world's press who had gathered in Sweden to see the collision detection system in action."

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