The last job I got from a cold ad was 22 years ago. I have had 9 jobs since then. Every one of them I got through the hidden job market (was never advertised) and through close people and direct contacts in my network. I never had any unreasonable requirements and I knew exactly whether my skills fit the bill or not after a 5 minute conversation.

If you want a good job, bypass HR and talk direct to hiring managers. The way to do that is to know someone who is hiring through your network. Yes. use your network.

Otherwise your just another number in the crowd and stacks of resumes and will never get past the HR screening unless your overqualified for the job and then you probably don't want it anyways because you will be bored.

to go back to Africa and help fight the outbreak.

Since they are now immune and being health care professionals they are uniquely qualified to handle the treatment of Ebola patients without fear of dying from it.

1. Use gold for money.
2. Shut down the Federal reserve and ban fractional reserve banking practices.
3. Shut down IRS and eliminate income tax.
4. Reduce the military to a maximum size no greater than the next largest military on the planet and station it inside US borders never to leave.
5. Reform Copyright limits to it's original timeframe (eliminate MM laws).
6. Reform patents to it's original requirements (you must build a working physical device that represents the patent).
7. Eliminate any laws governing the behavior and rights of corporations. Specifically remove any law that deems the rights of a corporation equivalent to an individual.
8. Ban campaign contributions. Allow campaigns for public office to occur for two days and only the two days before the election. Candidates pay for their own campaigns out of their own pocket.
8. Implement a term limit for _all_ public servants, elected officials and government employees to no greater than 6 years.

Good luck with anything less. You'll just be another re-branded statist party and you might as well run for office as a republican or democrat (either will work for you).

Regulation of currency is evil.

The only global crisis I am aware of is the desire for western companies to drive down tech engineering and programmers wages.

What else could they be trying to solve on a freakin' plane?

That is all . . .

Only one other voter voting. I guess everyone know Obama will win his home state so low turnout.

All I had to do is sign. They compared my signature with one on file. No ID required.

Only voted for president and against every govt. program. Most local positions had only one candidate running (WTF?) so they didn't need my vote anyways.

Yawn. Nothing to report from Ill Annoy . . .

The Butterfly Effect (not the movie!)

All biometrics can be fooled if the biometric sensor system alone is all you are using for the security.

Biometrics only uniquely identifies a person. You still need another person (security guard, for example) or technology (detect a live human being and/or a real eye) to verify it is a person that provides the biometric input. This is to prove an actual person is there.

Until someone switches eyes out (improbable) or finds a way to implant the iris image of another individuals eye within their own eye (improbable) a security person can verify an eye is actually being scanned by the biometric scanner. Add an independent security feature (ID, password, etc.) and it's a pretty darn good security system.

46% is a lot of stoopid (sp intended) people.

Based on my personal experience. That number seems about right.

Dumb is "in" in the US nowadays . . .

Could very well be. I never owned Beta and Sony has been known to add a premium to their price tags.

I can say I never saw a Beta porn tape. But again, I never owned Beta . . .

Genius.

It seems the power of porn and technology has been underestimated over and over.

Porn drove the Video Cassette business and is probably responsible for VHS defeating the superior Beta format.

It is also probably responsible for the huge early popularity of the Internet.

Barring backlash from prudish regulators this move can't be underestimated . . .

Journal organizations need to practice credibility. Credibility is built over time with trustworthy news reporting. The problem is most organizations have fallen to the dark side of profit and tabloidism and can never come back. Their credibility is lost for good.

Individuals need to practice skepticism and critical thought. Then they can identify credible news sources by paying attention. Alternatively, by recognizing logical fallacies an individual can read between the lines and extract newsworthy data embedded in the half truths and agenda driven news we see today.

There is no legal solution to this problem. Principled individuals have to stand up and decide to make things better.

The move to GPU's won't happen in HPC circles. However the move of OpenCL to FPGAs is happening:

http://www.altera.com/corporate/news_room/releases/2011/products/nr-opencl.html