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Eh? The results are clear and effective. General Petraeus and Mr. Spitzer found out the hard way.

I would be surprised if these capabilities were not abused to blackmail or otherwise coerce leaders of industry and members of congress.

Someone has a LOT of power at their fingertips now because of these "programs". People are getting hurt already.

Boo fucking hoo. If the NSA had not abused its privileges, they would not be in this position now. They should have stuck to their job instead of trying so hard to become Big Brother. This could potentially tumble America into destruction. They should have thought of that before they started this bullshit.

Worked real well in the Ukraine recently eh? (CAPTCHA is grossly relevant this time: obituary, are these really random coincidences?)

Up until I was about 3, I used to stutter. My mother and father became divorced, my father disappeared, and all stuttering went away almost overnight.

I am not sure how this fits into their narrative. I was probably just a one-off... as usual.

Then you are not turning the speakers up loud enough. Funnily enough, the CAPTCHA is demolish.

Seriously, someone was asking me to tell the difference between a wav file and an mp3 file, both were sent to me as a wav. Once I turned the volume up loud enough I was correct on one song 100% of the time (Primus - My Name is Mud) and 2/3 of the time for a Metallica song. I would have had perfect detection for mp3 on the Metallica song but I had my amp (accidentally) still munging music to make MP3s sound better. The Primus song is never in question when encoded as an MP3. Something about it defeats the algorithm no matter how you tune it.

What annoyed me the most is that no prisoner could ever be contained. Every. Single. Prisoner. Left. Their. Cell. Every. Fucking. Time.

Really? They don't know how to do security? Oy oy oy.

Then remove the obscene taxes. That is the reason they were passed to begin with, the supposedly much higher medical bills... however, the reduced pension/retirement usage never factored into the equation. Whatever.

I am flabbergasted. The reason Debian does not get corporate contracts is because they do not have a corporate program to provide assurances to customers like Redhat does. It has nothing to do with SystemD.

Redhat is about to lose a largish DoD contract because of SystemD. Debian has removed themselves as an option with this crap. Will my decision hurt Redhat? Individually, no. I will not be surprised if lots of other people responsible for choosing technologies refuse this crap as well. Will it hurt Debian? I was already not using them but now they have excluded themselves. They have limited their own potential growth.

I have quite a few Linux servers under my control. SystemD buys me nothing. SystemD has not caused me any problems in my professional life (yet) but it has caused me numerous problems in my personal life.

In my professional life, I have two services that I would like SystemD to restart when those services die. It does not restart them. Is this a problem? No. It is no different than previous behaviour.

Other than service monitoring, I am unsure what else SystemD is supposed to offer to me. My servers never change hardware, never change networks, never do anything at all other than the two services they provide. Binary logs makes troubleshooting transient boot problems impossible. It never gets far enough to start writing text logs through the other interfaces. I do not even bother to troubleshoot anymore. I have an ISO image that tkes less than 10 minutes to install and make fully functional. Is this the goal of SystemD? To just reinstall like we do with Windows?

Meh. There is no point in discussing this. Some people want SystemD. As a rejection of init, I can understand that position, but it is like worshiping Satan because Beelzebub was too evil. All I can say is, What the fuck is wrong with you people?

In this particular case, it is not about you, it is about the humour. It could have been anyone... even me. It is not the fact that a mistake was made that is important, mistakes are common in casual conversation like this. It is that the mistake was made in relation to the meaning of the word that the mistake was made upon (is that even coherent?!). :)

I understand this, you understand this, it is orthogonal to what I am saying however. I was illustrating how "increasing requirements" merely result in increasing lies. Ask for what the job entails and filter on that. It will not help with the liars but it gets rid of the absurd, such as 10 years of experience with server 2012 when it is only the year 2015.

For apprentice level jobs, I wholeheartedly agree. If you want to play the odds then that is the way to go; however, for non-entry level jobs, I would say it is counter-productive, if not outright incorrect. A person who has 5 years experience actually doing something, and doing it well, is a FAR greater bet than someone who has 20 some certifications and a masters degree, but who never stays in any one one job for more than two years. I say this from experience.

I would go even farther (further? I need education) than that and say that the high school dropout who has 10+ years experience and great references is more valuable than a PhD in respect to getting the job done. Clearly there are things the PhD person can do that the high school dropout can not, but are those things relevant to the business? I would argue that those things will drive up the price of PhD in relation to the high school dropout.

Change your filters and you have a better chance of finding the right candidate.

I have been responsible for the hiring decision for numerous people. I have been burned many times by using degrees and certs as filtering tools. If there is nothing else there then yes, but otherwise, it is all about the experience and the employment history. Your experiences and employment history is what will get you the interview when I am reviewing CVs and resumes.

I am not currently running my own business and I have suffered greatly at the hands of ignorant hiring managers, but then, I would argue that we were both better off never meeting. Willfully ignorant people piss me off. I have been making a six figure salary for over a decade. I have made enough money for them to stop taking social security taxes out after only 6 months because the maximum for the year had already been paid. Most people are not even aware there was a maximum that could be paid in a year.

My thesis is that filtering by education is counter-productive unless there are no other discriminators to use. Even then, we are talking about making it to the interview stage only, not as a hiring decision. If you can not find interesting people to interview, I would say your hiring practices need to be re-examined.

So, um, not to detract from your rant or anything...
Putin invaded several countries, just to refresh your memory I will specifically name Georgia and Ukraine. Putin aided numerous bloody coups, you just do not hear about them because everyone, yourself included, is so focused on what America is doing.

Or should we move on to China and some of their imperialistic maneuvers too?

You speak like if we could just destroy America, everything would go back to being peaches and cream. Definitely a naive viewpoint.

I am really sorry but I just can't help myself. The mis-spelling of the word pedants is just too humorous to pass up. ;)

I am not the parent poster but your response caused me to immediately think: Go ahead. Keep filtering on arbitrary stuff... and keep whining about the lack of applicants who can do what their CV says.

I am one of those "real" people. If it says it on my CV, then I can do it. If it says I am an expert at it, then I really am an expert at it. You will never see my CV. Why? Because of the arbitrary filters you put up, it "forces" everyone else to lie just so their CV can be seen... but I will not lie.

But yeah, keep on filtering on arbitrary crap.

Grrrrrrr. This kind of response pisses me off. Are you assuming that a few kind words could not educate this person? Not everyone is perfect at what they do or need to do; however, many/most are willing to learn from their mistakes. Should people really lose their job or should they be educated?

I would argue that they should only be fired if they prove they are incapable of doing the job even after being educated... but that is just me.

Maybe you should understand the tidal wave and how it came to be rather than just fighting it reflexively.

Kind regards,
Dave