Oh Mozilla.. though you're already wasting enough time implementing crap nobody wants in Firefox, how can you ever HAVE time if you don't TAKE time?

::merovingian::

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

nt

I'd sign up for your newsletter if the connection was identified differently. Allow self-signed certs by default, but change the browser security 'color' thing from blue/green to yellow -- or even red if there is no non-encrypted traffic allowed.

CA certificate signing does serve a valuable function, one that is entirely defeated if there is no indication that a cert is self signed.

Nowhere? Pascal, Turbo Pascal, Delphi (Object Pascal)? Nowhere? I did professional Delphi development for roughly 10 years for companies of every size. Their IDEs were, and still are, a step beyond anything else, and when you had to get applications out the door quickly, it was Delphi or VB. The most visible brand, Borland, screwed up a lot of things. Embarcadero has been doing an admirable job bringing the product up to date and, slowly, back into the public eye. It's still very much alive. The current version can do cross-platform development for just about any mobile device (Win, iOS, Android), producing native code. Delphi (and Java, for that matter) are about as dead as the BSDs, which is to say, not. It's used in basically the same sort of way; quietly, behind the scenes, making things work that you don't think about day to day.

then we have nothing to fear from the developers. I am bombarded with "job offers", usually 3-5 a week, always from Indian people/firms who are completely illiterate. Over the past 5 or so years I've gone from politely declining, to ignoring, to insulting, to now intentionally misleading them and stringing them along just like 419 scammers.

It's nothing new either, and for that reason I doubt it's patentable. There is definite prior art, and as stated, the obviousness test fails instantly. To clear up a little misinformation here, what they are talking about is a port (i.e. a mechanical interface) that can house 2+ other disparate interfaces, so those other interfaces can be used *without* requiring a dongle -- though from the looks of it, you're going to need a dongle if you want to use more than one of them at a time. It doesn't look like their example port is designed to allow both an SD card and USB cable to be used at once -- unless you use a dongle! So on the face of it what they're trying to patent is any case where two physically different connectors can be plugged into the same socket, and the electrical connection that is made is matched correctly to the connector type. It does bear a strong resemblence to the eSATAp port which is simply a USB port embedded in an eSATA port, allowing you to plug in either (but not both) types of devices. IANAL but it seems like this patent will (or more properly, should) fail on two counts: 1. Obvious. The given example of SD+USB is good enough. Remove one side of the USB socket and an equal sized hole in one side of an SD socket, and glue them together. Done. 2. Prior art. eSATAp is one example. So are combo RJ11/RJ45 jacks, and pretty much every 'N-in-1 USB card reader' that has combined e.g. SD+xD into a single slot. The little USB stick multi-readers combine them all into a single 'socket'.

..maybe it's you. Speaking as someone with ~20 years real experience and no formal education at all (HS dropout, even), I haven't had any trouble finding a good paying gig (W2 or 1099) since putting the first behind me, let alone getting an interview. So, I say, seek within for the answers. The "young guy" is bringing something to the table you're not, right out of the gate, and it's got nothing to do with his degree or your lack thereof.