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Comment The world is your oyster (Score 1) 271

by countSudoku() (#49745793) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Career Advice For an Aging Perl Developer?

You have some reasonable skills. I'll second the guy who said to learn Python. Shell and Perl are awesome and get the job done, but Python is super nice to work with and has a ton of features and less-ugly syntax. Anyway, management is an option as described above, but if you're like me you like to build stuff and make the solutions happen. Freshen up your resume, copy the style of other "hipster" applicants, to a certain degree, you know what I mean. Then market yourself with multiple resumes in the fields you are sharp in; web app management, sys admin, Linux. I'll bet you know enough about securing a web app to become a web-centric security person, and those security jobs are going to get hot, if you don't mind the risk involved. Yeah you could be a software dev, a web admin, a manager of all that, Linux admin, you probably know enough about networking to be a senior net admin. Don't even fret about the no college or no certs. Both of those are nice to have, but better to have the real skills to do the real work.

Personally, I'm at the top of my field and can basically ignore job come-on and target big players directly. But don't be afraid to do some contracting. There are TONS of contracting companies out there, and most of them are desperate to get anybody to work for them. Just make sure the fit is right for you. Name your salary, NEVER low-ball yourself. You have the skills to pay the bills, as the kids say. I look way younger then I am, but I don't hide my wealth of old-school knowledge. I routinely outclass much younger applicants and take the job. Usually with one interview. Take your skills and become the star that you are.

BTW, you owe me $15 for this session. See you next week! ;)

Submission + - Part of Antarctica Suddenly Started Melting at a Rate of 14 Trillion Gal. a Year

Submitted by merbs
merbs writes: Sometime in 2009, a long-stable, glacier-filled region in Antarctica suddenly began to melt. Fast. A team of scientists with the University of Bristol made the alarming observation by looking at data from the CryoSat-2 satellite: The glaciers around the Southern Antarctic Peninsula, which had showed no signs of change through 2008, had begun losing 55 trillion liters (14.5 trillion gallons) of ice a year. And they evidenced no signs of slowing down.

Submission + - Scientists Demonstrate World's Smallest Speaker (acs.org) 3

Submitted by HTpizza
HTpizza writes: Scientists at USC and The Aerospace Corporation demonstrate the world’s smallest speaker, consisting of individual suspended carbon nanotube approximately 2 m in length, 1 nm in diameter, and 10-21 kg in mass. Corresponding author Adam Bushmaker stated, “This is 10,000 times smaller than any previous electroacoustic system studied.” By applying an AC voltage, the nanotube and surrounding air molecules heat up creating a sound wave that can be detected with a commercial microphone. The acoustic signals detected correspond to -28 decibels. These results were published recently in the journal ACS Nano

Comment Re:even if you don't want applicances to be connec (Score 1) 175

I look forward to hacking into your $8 Internet connection to make your stupid fridge fuck your toaster and have your stupid smartphone video it and post it to your stupid facebook account

IoT is for idiots who don't realize you don't need a fucking Internet connection for a fridge. What a fucking waste of technology. I hope your fridge gets a virus and you get diarrhea

Now put a embedded system into some dildos? THEN you have some modern IoT shit, bro

Comment Re:Criminal liability ... (Score 1) 82

Forget all that, it'll never make it in front of a judge/jury because the lobbyists will be paying off anyone who even THINKS of making a noise against their precious "too big to fail" health company who never hurt anybody ever and always brushes their teeth before bed and never says a discouraging word. How dare we want our privacy. :/

Submission + - NSA Planned to Hijack Google App Store to Hack Smartphones (firstlook.org)

Submitted by Advocatus Diaboli
Advocatus Diaboli writes: "The National Security Agency and its closest allies planned to hijack data links to Google and Samsung app stores to infect smartphones with spyware, a top-secret document reveals. The surveillance project was launched by a joint electronic eavesdropping unit called the Network Tradecraft Advancement Team, which includes spies from each of the countries in the “Five Eyes” alliance — the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Australia."

"The newly published document shows how the agencies wanted to “exploit” app store servers – using them to launch so-called “man-in-the-middle” attacks to infect phones with the implants. A man-in-the-middle attack is a technique in which hackers place themselves between computers as they are communicating with each other; it is a tactic sometimes used by criminal hackers to defraud people. In this instance, the method would have allowed the surveillance agencies to modify the content of data packets passing between targeted smartphones and the app servers while an app was being downloaded or updated, inserting spyware that would be covertly sent to the phones."

Comment Re:"Kaspersky's relationship with the Kremlin" (Score 1) 288

Right. Also Women's Maternity Dresses are WMDs too. Right, Mr. Sees Conspiracy Everywhere? I'll not even straighten you out with the real story because your kind does not take to logic or verifiable info. Like the good gentleman said before; fuck off, moron. Go watch more faux noose and leave the technical chatter to people actually in the industry, fucknut. Your bullshit denial of global climate change and how we never landed on the moon, and that dinosaurs are made up cartoons are not welcome here, dicklick

Submission + - The Myth of Outsourcing's Efficiency

Submitted by Presto Vivace
Presto Vivace writes: Why outsourcing winds up producing cost creep over time

Outsouring over time starts to create its own bureaucracy bloat. It’s the modern corporate version of one of the observations of C. Northcote Parkinson: “Officials make work for each other.” As Clive describes, the first response to the problems resulting from outsourcing is to try to bury them, since outsourcing is a corporate religion and thus cannot be reversed even when the evidence comes in against it. And then when those costs start becoming more visible, the response is to try to manage them, which means more work (more managerial cost!) and/or hiring more outside specialists (another transfer to highly-paid individuals).

Comment Re:Why not just... (Score -1, Troll) 384

by countSudoku() (#49737203) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Solve a Unique Networking Issue?

No problem there, use one of those mini USB-powered Ethernet to WiFi devices and then IP the WiFi side how you like, while leaving the static IP on the pump side. Then again, I'm not fucking getting paid to help this creep fix a problem with the fucking manufacturers embedded devices and their shit deploy methods, so screw off, bro. Come back when you have some fucking cash in hand from said pump maker. Fucking freeloaders!

Submission + - Los Angeles Raises Minimum Wage to $15 an Hour

Submitted by HughPickens.com
HughPickens.com writes: Jennifer Medina reports at the NYT that the the city council of nation’s second-largest city voted by a 14-1 margin to increase its minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2020, in what is perhaps the most significant victory so far in the national push to raise the minimum wage. Several other cities, including San Francisco, Seattle and Oakland, Calif., have already approved increases, and dozens more are considering doing the same. In 2014, a number of Republican-leaning states like Alaska and South Dakota also raised their state-level minimum wage by referendum. The impact is likely to be particularly strong in Los Angeles, where, according to some estimates, more than 40 percent of the city’s work force earns less than $15 an hour. “The proposal will bring wages up in a way we haven’t seen since the 1960s," says Michael Reich. "There’s a sense spreading that this is the new norm, especially in areas that have high costs of housing.”

It's important to remember that the minimum wage hike comes at a significant direct cost to business — well over a $1 billion a year, according to the mayor's analysis — and it would be foolish to pretend that it won't lead to some job losses and business closures. Critics say the increase will turn the city into a “wage island,” pushing businesses away into nearby places where they can pay employees less. “They are asking businesses to foot the bill on a social experiment that they would never do on their own employees,” says Stuart Waldman, president of the Valley Industry and Commerce Association, a trade group that represents companies and other organizations in Southern California. “A lot of businesses aren’t going to make it. It’s great that this is an increase for some employees, but the sad truth is that a lot of employees are going to lose their jobs.”

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