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Comment Re:Common sense (Score 1) 438

by tempestdata on Sunday September 26, 2010 @01:29PM (#33704128) Attached to: You Are Not Mark Zuckerberg, So Stay In School

Agreed Completely.

My boss doesn't have a college degree and he is a good deal sharper than I am (I have a Masters in Comp Sci.) When I look at a resume, or interview a candidate, I look at the education portion the same way I look at the hobbies section if the applicant has included it. Nice to know, but not important one way or the other.

In fact, If a person spent 4 years of his/her life making some solid contributions to open souce projects (perhps became a core committer to some of them). I would actually be more likely to hire him/her than someone who had finished a 4 year college degree. Provided everything else was equal.

Comment Re:And The Flip Side ... (Score 1) 393

by tempestdata on Friday April 16, 2010 @06:50PM (#31878426) Attached to: Oracle Wants Proof That Open Source Is Profitable

They weren't exactly a wildly successful company before they embraced open source. They were already in a downward spiral when they decided to open source some of their projects.

Obama's "ZuneGate" 608

Posted by kdawson on Sunday December 07, 2008 @06:17AM from the et-tu-barack dept.

theodp writes "Barack Obama supporters were left shaking their heads after a report surfaced that the president-elect was using a Zune at the gym instead of an iPod. So why would Mac-user Obama be Zune-ing out? Could be one of those special-edition preloaded Zunes that Microsoft bestowed on Democratic National Convention attendees, suggests TechFlash, nixing the idea that the soon-to-be Leader of the Free World would waste time loading Parallels or Boot Camp in OS X just to use a Zune."

Journal Journal: Firewalls, H323, Abstraction

Journal by Saint Aardvark on Tuesday March 06, 2007 @12:58AM

Last month, my work got a new H.323 video conferencing unit, and today we had our first real test: a lecture given at SFU that was streamed to us. For the most part, it went really well; there were no big screw-ups and everything went as planned. During the second half of the conference, though, the audio was intermittently choppy. I'm not certain, but I think that a local user's Internet radio stream may have caused the problems.

Submission + - Beware how much your WiFi is sharing about you!

Submitted by

QuantumCrypto

on Tuesday March 06, 2007 @12:47AM

QuantumCrypto writes: "Errata has developed a new network sniffer that looks for traffic using 25 protocols, including those for the popular instant message clients as well as DHCP, SNMP, DNS and HTTP. This means the sniffer will capture requests for network addresses, network management tools, Web sites queries, Web traffic and more. "You don't realize how much you're making public, so I wrote a tool that tells you," said Robert Graham, Errata's chief executive. The tool will soon be released publicly on the Black Hat Web site. Anyone with a wireless card will be able to run it, Graham said. Errata also plans to release the source code on its Web site."

Submission + - NASA can't pay for killer asteroid hunt

Submitted by

CGISecurity.com

on Tuesday March 06, 2007 @12:37AM

CGISecurity.com writes: "NASA officials say the space agency is capable of finding nearly all the asteroids that might pose a devastating hit to Earth, but there isn't enough money to pay for the task so it won't get done. "We know what to do, we just don't have the money," said Simon "Pete" Worden, director of NASA's Ames Research Center.""

Submission + - MyEclipse 5.1.1 GA Supports Eclipse 3.2.2 & Vi

Submitted by RobK on Tuesday March 06, 2007 @12:32AM

RobK writes: The GA release of MyEclipse 5.1.1 is now available for immediate download and is compatible with Eclipse 3.2.2, Windows Vista. The release also includes an enhanced and professionally supported version of Eclipse WTP 1.5.3 with many MyEclipse improvements and bug fixes, as well as Fully I18N enabled.
More information available at: http://www.myeclipseide.com/index.php

Submission + - Major Broadcasters hit with $12M Payola Fine

Submitted by Gr8Apes on Tuesday March 06, 2007 @12:28AM

Gr8Apes writes: Listeners and Indies may rejoice according to a just breaking story. According to the AP story:

Four major broadcast companies would pay the government $12.5 million and provide 8,400 half-hour segments of free airtime for independent record labels and local artists, The Associated Press has learned.

Submission + - Web site lists vulnerable domains to xss

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 06, 2007 @12:25AM

An anonymous reader writes: The goals of XSSed.com, are to provide informative resources on cross-site scripting(XSS) vulnerabilities and exploitation methodologies, and to archive XSS vulnerable websites for statistic purposes. Mirroring websites is a way to prove to vendors and webmasters, that the vulnerability really existed — in case of denial. Users will become more aware on protecting themselves on some websites, as XSS vulnerabilities are mostly targeting the users and not the websites.

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