Your 14 year old nephew is having social problems on Facebook.

Except that the vast majority of Facebook's traffic never passes through Google...

Bull. They will be selling these numbers for months. Many of the people who were impacted by this will never follow up by changing credit cards and pins. A large percentage of these numbers will remain valid until used.

  What we are going to see is more large scale attacks because these gray and black hat hackers have access to vast resources. Stolen credit cards are a favorite for buying cloud hosting.

It's painfully clear that the vast majority of you have decent experience with your OS flavor of choice, then with your limited understanding of the other OSs out there you bash everything you can.

Stereotypical ignorance driven fear.

You all make me sick.

Windows update has NEVER been useful for anything driver related. You could have googled for your drivers while you were in the middle of typing that post up. Hours to install legacy printers. Please.

You are testing this on new hardware. Most hardware that came out while win 7 was the latest had drivers rolled into SP1. MS always does this. Most modern hardware that comes in Windows 8 machines didn't exist when Win 7 SP1 came out. Especially wifi chipsets. That means Windows can't possibly have drivers for it. Many of these devices don't even have Win 7 drivers available at all. Linux on the other hand has repositories that are constantly updated.

There is nothing I loath more than half truths being waved around as fact. Your comment has no business being modded to +5

If you genuinely believe that this company is at fault for kids eating those magnets... Well YOU are part of the problem. Angry and ignorant. Just the way Uncle Sam likes you. The perfect meat puppet.

Amazing how Bucky balls were so quickly assaulted... Why haven't guns been pulled off the market? More kids kill them selves with firearms yearly than ever were killed by Bucky ball miss use.

Neil deGrasse Tyson is a brilliant astrophysicist. NOT a businessman.
It isn't as if NASA has an exemplary safety record, so stop trying to play that card.
I'm sad for Neil since he is so hurt by NASA's reduced roles. The reality of the thing is that without the massive hydra that is Uncle Sam staring over their shoulders, productivity just went up 10x.

We shouldn't be concerned about getting there. That's inevitable. We should be concerned what's going to happen when we get there. Is the government going to step back in...or is Heinlein going to blow Nostradamus' socks off yet again?

You seem to have completely missed my main point. The problem is that the industry has less and less to offer a highly skilled engineer for dedicating years of service. We are less inclined to even apply for the positions you mention. There is a serious lack of any chance of vertical mobility for engineers who would rather stay in one place. Regardless of the current fiscal ecosystem, IT and CS engineering positions are still an employees market. In the expanding digital economy you will never have enough good people.

If things like "bored quickly" are part of your hiring criteria, you may have a very difficult time hiring true talent. Do you know what kind of people apply for the positions you mention? Certainly not the free thinkers and risk takers. Some of us desire more than "job security." Much more. I suppose if you run a fish bowl with just one kind of fish, such as a military contractor, you're fine. If you desire to be the next start up snatched up by the likes of Google, Facebook, Yahoo, AOL, etc... I say good luck to you.

Coupling that with the fact that many of us have taken on a "Digital Nomad" life style that complements our curiosity... Well let's just say Marissa Mayer isn't doing the industry any favors. Don't expect us to conform to you when our skills are so highly coveted.

NT

There is a huge difference between maintaining your vows and not getting caught.

Snowden exposed the glaring issues in domestic security. He was a contractor who not only had access to data he shouldn't have, but he handed vindication to all the super paranoid people around the world, and that made him a media icon.

The real question is... if they aren't using the information against you, why exactly does it matter? Have they silenced your freedom of speech? Or exposed your search results to an employer? THEY HAVEN'T?!

I'm a geek, but I also consider myself a logical, red blooded American. Here are the facts. Uncle same has been monitoring our communications for decades. Look up carnivore and omnivore. So now they are getting Internet meta data. Surprised!?
WHY does it matter if they have your information? The only reason you have for " privacy" is if you are a criminal. Period. Or are you afraid that your coworkers will find out that you are taping up rodents and inserting them anally?

The need for privacy is an age old social stigma that grew out of the church decrying things like sexuality, freedom of speech, freedom of thought. A taboo that does nothing but protect those who are easily offended while stigmatizing people because they like to be different. There is nothing positive and nothing to gain by living like this. If anything it is stunting our social evolution.

All you privacy nuts live in a more and more open world every day. If you want to live your life behind closed doors scared of what other people think of you... Go ahead. I enjoy my life.

There is one detail everyone is glossing over.

Your first IT job is nothing but a cornerstone for your career. If you find yourself in one position for one year...two years...three years...you are doing it wrong. Most companies have no good reason to give big raises to their engineers without promotion into a "new position." With how volatile the world markets have been over the last decade, it has become even more difficult to grow within a single organization.

The secret to being successful in IT is to continue growing your skillset and never stay in one place to long. Contracting shorter one off projects is a great place for a fresh grad to start because you can quickly fill your resume. This is very easy to do if you were wise enough to contribute to any ((open source!!)) projects while working through high school and college. Especially in states like Colorado that are preparing to open their public insurance market places in the coming weeks.

Once you have the resume to do consulting full time, you just cant beat it. Digital nomad. It's the life!

...and it was covered by Hack A Day over two years ago.

http://hackaday.com/2011/06/14/man-spends-30-years-helping-disabled-gamers/

This guy is just making piss poor quality printables and is trying to compare them to well engineered custom controllers while preaching from a very tiny soap box and utilizing other people's existing ideas.

It's great that he is out to help disabled people increase their quality of life... but comparing these poorly / cheaply engineered devices to the likes of what Ben Heck engineers is just a joke.