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Submission + - Designer Brews Beer, Prints Resume on Side of Custom 4-Pack, Scores Job (dice.com)

Nerval's Lobster writes: Canadian graphic designer Brennan Gleason wanted to attract more work, so he came up with a novel concept: custom-printing his resume on boxes of the beer he brews as a sideline. “I brewed up a nice blonde ale, so I figured it would awesome to use it to promote myself and my work,” Gleason wrote in a post on Dribbble. “Box contains the resume and the bottles each contain a piece of my work.” In addition to some bits about his work history, the carton labeling features a prominent link to his personal website. The best part? His creative effort reportedly gained him a few job offers. And if the employer loves beer, a resume on the side of a beer carton could go a long way toward scoring that job interview, provided the employer in question isn’t a teetotaler.

Comment Re:Thanks for the tip! (Score 1) 448

I'm in complete agreement here. We desperately need some way to tell legitimate Kickstarter campaigns from frauds. For that matter, the entire internet is full of scams and con-men waiting to take your money. That's why my team has developed iScam, the revolutionary new fraud-protection device.

Inside every iScam is a tiny induction coil that is powered by negative energy. When negative energy released by a scam such as this one activates the device, it generates a current which in turn activates a blinking LED, with the frequency of the blinking being proportional to the negative energy field. Simply aim the device at your computer screen, or hold it up to the phone when you get that too-good-to-be-true offer, or even point it at your lover... if there's any deception in the area, iScam will be activated and you'll be alerted!

Pledge just $15 and we'll send you one device. For $25 we'll send you two. For $100, we'll send you an improved prototype with even more sensitive scam-detection algorithms. And for the especially gullible-those of you who have lost thousands or tens of thousands of dollars to scammers before- you need the top-level security provided by iScam Pro, which has a more powerful induction circuit, both increasing the range of the device and allowing it to detect even the tiniest fib! Pledge just $999 and we'll send you an iScam Pro. With our patented technology, you'll be safer than ever. And best of all, it's all environmentally friendly and fair-trade, with 10% of all proceeds going to benefit orphaned pandas.

Seems legit.

Comment Hard to tell (Score 3, Funny) 163

It's hard for me to tell. Whenever I ride on a machine at 30,000 ft above the ground at 300 MPH, I take a Xanax (or three, funny story, but I have been "carried" off of flights by friends and family) to help me forget the previously mentioned facts. If I ever remembered that there's software on those machines, I'd probably take my pills with alcohol. Either way, when I get to my destination I always sleep for about 10 hours.

Off topic, I heard a great programmer joke; a bunch of programmers are hanging out and talking about code and such. One of them says, "show of hands, would you ever get on a plane if you knew your company wrote the software that controls the airplane?" A single hand goes up out of the group. "You believe that your company writes software that well?!" questions the programmer that brought up the topic. The man with his hand up replies, "No. I'm just not that worried about troubles from our software mid-flight; if my company wrote the software, the plane would never even take off in the first place."

Submission + - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Released

An anonymous reader writes: Today, Red Hat unveils Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, with new features designed to meet both modern datacenter and next-generation IT requirements for cloud, Linux Containers, and big data. The new version includes Linux containers (LXC) lets Linux users easily create and manage system or application containers, improved MS Active Directory / Identity Management (IdM) integration, XFS as the default file system, scaling to 500 TB (additional file system choices such as btrfs, ext{3,4} and others are available), a new and improved installation experience, managing Linux servers with OpenLMI, enhancements to both NFS and GFS2, optimized network management, bandwidth, the use of KVM Virtualization technology and more. See the list of complete features set here (PDF). CentOS 7 shouldn't be lagging too far behind due to recent cooperation between Red Hat and CentOS project.

Submission + - Anatomy Of The 1,000 MPH Bloodhound SSC

cartechboy writes: The laws of physics are pretty clear: speed is relative. To a snail, human walking pace is incomprehensible, yet compared to the speed at which light travels, everything in the universe is standing still. To us mere humans, 1,000 mph is pretty fast. It's even faster along the surface of the planet, which is what the Bloodhound SSC land speed record team aims to achieve next summer. Using both a jet engine and a rocket, the 1,000 mph target seems within reach. A new video has been released detailing the anatomy of the record attempt including the start and stop points which are twelve miles apart. The entire run is lined with rocks which isn't very comforting, but the Bloodhound SSC does have the world's strongest brakes, parachute, and air-brakes. Still, aiming your 1,000 mph car at a bed of rocks is still risky business. We'll find out how it all pans out next summer when the record attempt run takes place.

Comment You forgot to factor in the supply chain (Score 1) 1040

You forgot to figure in that when the minimum wage goes up all of your suppliers have more overhead and pass that on to you. So your cost of supplies increases as well. When you buy a Big Mac, you're paying for the entire supply chain that got the thing to you. Sometimes that chain is reasonably long and you have to cover the cost of every step of it.

Submission + - Why does light stretch as the Universe expands?

StartsWithABang writes: On the one hand, galaxies are definitely redshifted, and they're redshifted more severely the farther they are; that's been indisputable since Hubble's data from the 1920s. But spacetime's expansion — the idea that photons get redshfited because expanding space stretches their wavelength — is just one possibility. Sure, it's the possibility predicted by General Relativity, but a fast-moving, receding galaxy could cause a redshift, too. How do we know what the cause is? Here's how.

Submission + - DISH Becomes World's Largest Company to Accept Bitcoin (coindesk.com)

Raystonn writes: US satellite service provider DISH Network has announced that it will start accepting Bitcoin payments later this year from its more than 14 million pay-TV subscribers. This will make it the largest company to accept Bitcoin to date.

Comment Good way to brick your XP box (Score 1) 322

Seems like MS would make a lot of dough if you were to enable these non-XP updates and then one of them bricked your box. Maybe it's a bit of a tinfoil hat idea, but I'm sure they're not going out of their way to make sure that enabling this registry key isn't going to make you a potential customer again.

Submission + - Programmers: It's OK to Grow Up

Nemo the Magnificent writes: From the Peter-Pan-need-not-apply dept.

Everybody knows software development is a young man's game, right? Here's a guy who hires and manages programmers and he says it's not about age at all, it's about skills, period. A company that actively works to offer all employees the chance to learn and to engage with modern technologies is a company that good people are going to work for, and to stay at.

Submission + - Does Common Core Suffer From What Ails Obamacare?

theodp writes: If you listen to Common Core cheerleader Bill Gates, the new academic standards promised by the initiative are the best way to fix school for our kids. But the devil is in the detail, and therein lies the problem. "My conversations with several Core proponents over the past few weeks," writes the WSJ's Peggy Noonan in The Trouble With Common Core, "leave me with the sense they fell in love with an abstraction and gave barely a thought to implementation. But implementation — how a thing is done day by day in the real world — is everything. There is a problem, for instance, with a thing called 'ObamaCare.' That law exists because the people who pushed for it fell in love with an abstract notion and gave not a thought to what the law would actually do and how it would work." With criticism of Common Core hitting new heights, Noonan suggests its advocates take a look at their ill-thought-out creation instead of summarily dismissing the "dangerous misconceptions" of those who oppose Common Core in its present incarnation. "The irony," notes Noonan, "is that Core proponents’ overall objective — to get schools teaching more necessary and important things, and to encourage intellectual coherence in what is taught — is not bad, but good."

Submission + - The Truth on OpenGL Driver Quality (blogspot.com)

rcht148 writes: Rich Geldreich (game/graphics programmer) has made a blog post on the quality of different OpenGL Drivers. Using anonymous titles (Vendor A: Nvidia; Vendor B: AMD; Vendor C: Intel), he plots the landscape of game development using OpenGL. Vendor A, jovially known as 'Graphics Mafia' concentrates heavily on performance but won't share it's specifications thus blocking any open source driver implementations as much as possible. Vendor B has the most flaky drivers. They have good technical know-how on OpenGL but due to an extremely small team (money woes), they have shoddy drivers. Vendor C is extremely rich. It had not taken graphics seriously until a few years ago. They support open source specifications/drivers wholeheartedly but it will be few years before their drivers come to par with market standards. He concludes that using OpenGL is extremely difficult and without the blessings of these vendors, it's near impossible to ship a major gaming title.

Submission + - Iran unveils duplicate of captured US drone (dailytimes.com.pk)

mpicpp writes: Iran has produced a duplicate of a U. S. drone it captured in 2011, Press TV reported on Monday.
A copy of the RQ-170 stealth drone was unveiled on Sunday at an exhibition attended by Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the media outlet said. The event, held at the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Aerospace Forces' Central Command, also put on display "the achievements of the IRGC Aerospace Forces in the design and development of drones, radars and defense systems, as well as anti-ship, ballistic and anti-shield missile systems," Press TV said.

The RQ-170 Sentinel was reverse-engineered by IRGC experts in about two years, it said. An RQ-170 unmanned stealth aircraft, designed and developed by Lockheed Martin, was captured by Iran on Dec. 4, 2011 while flying over the Iranian city of Kashmar.

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