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How To Hire a Hacker 370

itwbennett writes "If you want to hire a hacker, you need to take a more psychology-based approach to the entire interview process to determine whether he or she has changed their ways enough to be a trustworthy employee, says Mich Kabay in a recent Network World blog post. But this approach is also 'germane for highly skilled staffers, even those that don't come with arrest records or who have done something questionable in their pasts,' says David Strom. For example, in your next interview, ask a question that will suss out how much of a sense of entitlement a candidate has — or how much you or your company has. 'One time when I interviewed with Microsoft in Redmond I couldn't get over this sense of corporate entitlement — it was one of the biggest turn-offs that I had during my interviewing day there,' says Strom. 'I got the feeling that I wasn't going to fit in, no matter how smart I thought (or they thought) I was.'"

Comment Re:Your are not the only one looking... (Score 1) 167

I also have an n800 and use it to read .pdf every night (there is a download to let you set the lcd to 1/128 brightness), during the day I read the same book on my Touch Pro but the n800 has a much better screen. I use Evince to read the pdf files, it is one of my favorite pieces of software.

Evince lacks reflow but I can maximize the font by reducing the margins to 0 in Acrobat.

Evince beats the WinMo Acrobat reader because it remembers your page when you re-open the file, this is a feature not to be underestimated. On the other hand WinMo Acro has reflow and zoom which make a book readable on a very small screen. WinMo Acro. though, doesn't remember your settings per book, or at all, which makes it irritating when the device needs to be rebooted ( every 2 to 3 days )

The next evolution for me is probably going to be e-ink in the form of a Foxit eSlick Reader (http://www.foxitsoftware.com/ebook/) I have handled the Sony readers in the Sony store and they are really nice to hold, too expensive but hopefully the eSlick will be as good and cheaper.

atb good luck

Comment Re:Tne answer's simple. (Score 1) 500

I agree they will support the tags but will they add Theora or will it be plugin-dependent?

I guess open-source plugins are the lesser evil but it is hard to imagine Theora penetration achieving critical mass without easy IE integration, and without that YouTube will remain Flash due to the h264 licensing debacle.

Interesting discussion about HTML5 video implementation

Comment Re:RDP (Score 5, Funny) 424

step 1: buy lots of old computers
step 2: buy some serial cables
step 3: beowulf the computers
step 4: use the rs232 cables with appropriate mices.
step 5: make sure you are using linux
step 6: direct the serial signals appropriately
step 7: either use a vm xp or linux to play the game
step *: never give up trying to make it work, remember, your time is infinite - spending $300 for a dell vostro is like spelling the word "DEFEAT" in a snowbank with dead penguin bodies.

Comment Re:Good proprietary RF is much better than Bluetoo (Score 1) 519

I have been using a Radtech BT600 (http://www.radtech.us/Products/BT600.aspx) for a couple of weeks now and I am very impressed, it nicely addresses your USB charging issue and, in a pinch you can use it as a USB mouse also.

The build quality is very good, a solid mouse though it is a little on the small side it doesn't weigh very much and even though I have a lot of bluetooth devices it can pair with it consistently chooses the right one.

Installation was perhaps the smoothest I have ever experienced (Vista x64) - I paired it with the computer and everything just started working within 5 seconds.

It has a convenient recessed off switch on the top, time between on/off switching is about 1 second. Tracking is on par with my favorite wired Intellimouse. The buttons are nice, not too sensitive the left/right are a bit loud, the side buttons are a bit stiff but not bad and the wheel is quiet with a good feel.

I don't know much about the battery life but one review claimed 2 weeks with it switched on all the time.

All in all I am very happy with this mouse.

Comment Re:Next time . . . (Score 2, Interesting) 269

What about a vibrator?

This is the mechanism used to clean the CCD in many high-end digital cameras and since the rovers are obviously built to withstand very high magnitude vibrations why not use a similar system on them?

The rover could be parked on an incline, identical to the technique used to get them maximum solar exposure during "winter", and then vibrate the dust off the panels.

Even the smallest cell phone has a vibrator, they are small and light-weight I'm not sure how energy-efficient they are but I'd wager the power generating improvement would more than offset the expenditure.

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Submission + - Chinese Astronaut Could Be On The Moon In 15 Years

An anonymous reader writes: Xinhua and Reuters are reporting that China will have the technical capability to put astronauts on the moon within 15 years. According to Huang Chunping, chief launch vehicle designer, a Chinese lunar landing will be achievable in that time frame if funding is available and preliminary projects go well. Huang says that China's current generation of Long March rockets are 'slightly' better than Europe's Ariane rockets, but trail the United States and Russia. China achieved its first human space flight in 2003. The United States had its first human space flight in 1961, and put the first astronauts on the moon about 8 years later, in 1969. The US is planning to return to the moon by 2020, 13 years from now.
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Journal Journal: AJAX 404 scripts?

My organization just rolled out its new site design (which includes a good chunk of moved pages), and I just upgraded my copy of Danny Goodman's _Dynamic HTML_ to 3rd edition ("updated for Ajax and Web 2.0"). So I quickly realized we should have an AJAX script on our 404 pages. Parse the given URL, apply some heuristics, test a half-dozen candidate addresses, forward user to the best match.

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