The cat is out of the bag already. Several of the hobbyist 3d printers are self replicating. You're also selling a device to a market which is inherently prone to tinkering and modifying things. It wont last long.

Do you mean "should be available" as in "can be easily acquired in" or more like "should be available but aren't because god forbid we teach shop class"?

Put that way, maybe Windows isn't quite so bad after all . . .

hawk

And speaking as a hiring manager, draw on how your IT experience will allow you to develop solutions that will work seamlessly with the whole IT ecosystem at your organization.

I know I've seen over the years many situations where a development team will say "OK the code is ready!". When I ask them what firewall rules they will require, they just look at me blankly and turn towards IT, because that's "infrastructure stuff".

Typically we have a name for Development staff who doesn't do that... Senior developers :).

Min

These are not the socialists you are looking for . . .

hawk, esq.

It was as if millions of cases suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced . . .

Oh, wait.

Just 400. :)

hawk, esq.

My daughter was dada. Drove my wife nuts for months till she said mommy.

I've heard anecdotally that this is because the da phoneme is easier to perform for an uncoordinated infant than the ma phoneme.

Min

And really edgy!

And which of these don't apply doubly or triply to Windows?

hawk

Basically the way it works is you get, as a family, 12 months of EI for the birth of a child. You can apportion it in any way you wish up to 6 months for the father or 12 months for the mother.

Like you, I took vacation as we couldn't afford to lose that much of my salary. I think I have a very close relationship with my daughter, in part because I spent that time taking care of her while my wife recovered from the c-section. (As with all things parenting related, YMMV, and this was the case for me. Your case is likely different. Do not take as medical advice. :))

Min

Yes, nobody ever cracks hashes.

http://contest-2012.korelogic.com/stats.html
http://threatpost.ca/en_us/blogs/anatomy-lulzsec-attack-singles-out-web-20-weakness-052312
http://franx47.wordpress.com/2013/01/31/using-hashcat-to-crack-hash-password/

Bottom line - people pick useless passwords. The time required to brute force a hash given that you have a significant number of hashes to play with is sadly trivial. The various defcon contests are proof of this.

Until users start using random passwords, you don't want the bad guys to get a hold of your hash database. Especially if you're not salting.

Min

>Google often jumps into things without considering all of the details.

Yeah, that bit on taking on Digital, who didn't need to make money on their "web" search engine and only built altavista to show off the capabilities of their alpha processor was a disaster . . .

hawk

The conventional wisdom is indeed that most utilities are "natural monopolies," and for the reasons you cite.

But in Lubbock, TX, there are two competing electrical grids--and at least as of a few years ago, among the lowest electrical prices. I've spoken to other economists who have graphed electrical prices by distance from Lubbock.

Competition works even in places where we would expect it not to . . .

doc hawk

Try to emigrate to Canada.

Elaborate please? I ask because my wife did exactly that (emigrated from the US to Canada).

She would argue that Canadian immigration policy is much more even handed (score enough points, get in). This is especially true for US professionals (look up the NAFTA TN-1 visa). There are also guest worker programs.

Once you are a perm resident, there are two requirements:

1) Don't do anything deportable
2) Spend enough time in Canada, rather then somewhere else.

You do those two things are you get treated almost the same as a Canadian born person. The three exceptions are:

1) You cannot hold a senior govt post
2) You cannot serve in the military
3) You cannot vote in elections

Write your citizenship exam (you qualify after 4 years) and you are the same as someone who was born here. You can even be Prime Minister. No birth certificate required :).

Oh and we don't have any caps. We'll take as many people who meet the entrance requirements. No lotteries, no caps.

If any of the above is wrong (I am fallible :)) or out of date, let me know, but I believe everything above is correct.

Min