Actually whatever level you may have, age is a critical factor: the higher the level, the higher the chances to get a job, but the higher the age, the lower the chances to get a job. Usually the level goes along with experience, which in turn goes along with age [up to a certain limit]. In other terms, to get a job you need a high level, that you get with more experience, acquired with extended work time, which increases your age, and that prevents you from getting a job.

From the beginning this MH370 disapearance is strange: the Malaysian many mistakes (why would they lie about the cockpit last words??), satellite analysis, to the discovery by georesonance of an aircraft thousands of miles north, on that same path calculated from satellite data (they couldn't say in March if the plane went north or south...)...
Sounds like the next time we'll hear about mh370, the plane will be on its way to a building near you...

Actually the "cumulative probability" was related to the wrong big one predictions in Tokyo: at first, it was said the big one will happen within a couple of days (after 3/11) within ~70% probability, then, after a couple of weeks (since nothing happened), it will happen within a year with ~70% proba... retroactively, if you position yourself in the past, the cumulative probas of all "big one certainties" tend to be very high!

What don't you understand in my post?

Finding out when (ie soon) and where an earthquake will occur is still almost pure luck. Of course, when the frequency of EQ is high, the probability that a bigger one happens is higher. But that almost the best we can predict. After the Tohoku EQ in Japan in 2011, amazing predictions were made by "specialists": a "big one" to occur in Tokyo within a couple of days, the Fuji mt to erupt soon, etc... nothing happened. (the cumulative probabilities of a big one in Tokyo was more than 90% at the time!).

So the guy hires Microsoft compliant engineers and surprisingly they're most efficient on MS products. What isn't said is that probably that guy himself has always been a Windows user, and thus he prefers to hire windowsians. And there... I am not surprised. How would you feel hiring Linux people when yourself you don't have a clue about what it does and how it works. The thing is, Linux engineers would have no problem learning Windows stuff, while the opposite is more seldom. Hiring engineers interested in open source, Linux, openness in general would be more profitable for the company in the longer term, though.

Indeed. 12.04 is a bit old...

There is even a safer way to travel:
1. buy a ticket and seat in the cabin

Well, 10 stories on front page, averaging 15 comments per story... growing slowly!

It'll be more interesting when they catch someone who did use the heartbleed bug before it was revealed publicly.

At least there shouldn't be any stray wolf wandering within the Moon base..

Sorry but the Suspend feature of Windows - called BSOD - is almost instantaneous.

Are you sure about that? What about all those big organizations CIOs who always chose the easiest/laziest strategy and blindly renew their pricey Microsoft yearly contract, neglecting any of the newest possible alternatives, cheaper and sometimes more adapted to the company needs?

Indeed it works. Give someone a 1X dilution of Arsenic, and you sure kill him..

Too bad no government has enough courage to officially release a 300 pages document that informs people there is no proof of the existence of [a] god.