Comment What will happen to me? Not a thing. (Score 1) 592
People who fail to keep backups deserve everything they have coming to them.
Comment Document, plan, propose, execute (Score 2) 424
You document what's there. You've already started that. Next you document what's deficient. Then you put together a plan that, in stages, makes things better. Then you propose that plan to your management in terms that make sense to business people (happier customers, money saved, disaster avoided, etc...). Then you execute the plan.
Comment Re:Do you plan to work in the real world? (Score 4, Interesting) 173
I have hired five PhD's over the course of my career (maybe more, but five that I remember). All of the where hired based on what they did / what they could do and not on the basis of their theses. Granted my statistical sample is tiny, but there you go.
Comment Re:Version changes are the most visible evidence. (Score 1) 291
...and it uses 2x the memory on my Mac that Firefox does
Vulnerabilities Discovered In Prison SCADA Systems 128
phaedrus5001 writes with an excerpt from an Ars Technica article: "Researchers have demonstrated a vulnerability in the computer systems used to control facilities at federal prisons that could allow an outsider to remotely take them over, doing everything from opening and overloading cell door mechanisms to shutting down internal communications systems. ... The researchers began their work after [John] Strauchs was called in by a warden to investigate an incident in which all the cell doors on one prison's death row spontaneously opened."
Comment Re:Not to mention the comic advantage ... (Score 3, Informative) 800
You declare them to Siri. Tell Siri, "Ellen Jones is my sister." Siri will remember the association.
US Intelligence Mining Your Social Network Data 240
bs0d3 writes "U.S. Intelligence has hired social scientists to mine the vast resources of the Internet — Web searches and Twitter messages, Facebook and blog posts, the digital location trails generated by billions of cellphones. They intend to use this info to track sociological laws of human behavior — enabling them to predict political crises, revolutions and other forms of social and economic instability. Privacy advocates are deeply skeptical of the project, saying it reminds them of Total Information Awareness, a 9/11 Pentagon program that proposed hunting for potential attackers by identifying patterns in vast collections of public and private data: telephone calling records, e-mail, travel data, visa and passport information, and credit card transactions. In a recent budget proposal, the defense agency argues that its analysis can expose terrorist cells and other groups by tracking their meetings, rehearsals and sharing of material and money transfers."
Comment Re:Obvious (Score 0) 348
Do it doggie. That way you can both watch the game.
Comment Re:Politics in everything (Score 1) 533
You're confusing the world with most open source projects, I fear.
Comment Re:Will this stick? (Score 2) 199
How much revenue do they bring in?
Comment Will this stick? (Score 1) 199
Another in a long series of (mostly failed) attempts by Google to successfully branch out beyond search & ads.
Comment Re:Thinking of Contacting ICANN? Don't Bother... (Score 4, Insightful) 127
ICANN Stopped being about the common good many years ago.
The only goal that ICANN has is to make money for ICANN and the registrars that support it.
Comment Re:Yay! Anecdotes! (Score 2) 475
If he attributed the success to a picture of a porcupine he kept on his desk, chances are he wouldn't be CEO of anything more than Padded Room, Ltd.
Comment Re:Lunchbreaks (Score 5, Insightful) 475
You make it sound like your work is a reality tv show ("I'm not here to make friends, I'm here to win.")
If you don't think good personal relationships will make for a better team, then I'm glad you don't work with me.
Comment Eat lunch together daily (Score 3, Insightful) 475
I once spoke to a CEO of a successful startup in Texas. He attributed a large part of their success to the fact that the team ate lunch together every day. They sold the company to a larger company for big bucks, success by some measure at least.
