The moderation system here at slashdot is terrible.

But then again most online moderation systems are. Quite simply, it is somewhat depressing that at this point we still don't have a good trusted "commenter identity" system that rewards good posters in a better manner. There are a number of proposed solutions out there but no one seems interested in implementing anything but the most basic systems. We have far too much idle computing power to be implementing this simple systems that don't scale in terms of reward or users.

So what if they gamed the system, it is a damn good tutorial. Did you even bother to go and look, or id you just decide to bitch?

kudos.

Apple is a weird company. On the one hand you have many parts of it which work on open concepts, even encourage them and contribute. On the other you have what appears to be an old contingent of assholes who in any attempt to maintain relevant within the growing beast that is Apple (not Apple Computer) do anything they can to wrestle the slightest bit of profit or just be dicks in general.

I am a huge fan of OSX as a client OS and have been a fan ever since NeXT "bought" Apple. The laptops are great gear and some of their ideas for media consumption are still unmatched. However Apple the company is becoming harder to stomach for me personally as they become the big kids on the block, unafraid of quickly fading into irreverence like they were only half a decade ago, throwing their weight around, "just cuz". This is a perfect example as disabling support for the Atom is an *active* change that affords the company absolutely nothing.

The "real" unix systems at work? What you start using unix in the early 90s or something?

SysV is the devil... unfortunately the wrong kind.

everyone has their favourite tool. vi is incredibly powerful and comes standard on dozens of unix variants, the place it has, it has earned.

your challenge is a bit off though, i can think of many things you can do in vi that you can also do in ultraedit or boxer or XXX, the difference being with vi, my hands never left the keyboard.

Listed dock improvements... twice, they are that good ;)

The SL upgrade is much more like going from Win 98 to Win 98 SE if it must be put in those terms.

Almost all of the upgrades are things under the hood that most users will notice little of, except the general speed up (which is quite significant in many parts), dock improvements, better Exchange support and improved dock functionality. This is a good update for tons of reasons most people shouldn't even really care about, so the pricing is quite justified.

You don't think the 180 you are paying them a year should cover the expansions? What if you had played the original game for years? Considering Blizz sells the expansions to stores for much lower than the $40 you end up paying... it just seems quite petty to me. Where's the loyalty to your customers?

But they did make it too easy. WoW was never a really hard game for 95% of the content after the first level of "nerfs". Some of the original content was quite hard in 5 man groups (This is before MC). I tried WoW recently with the free 10 days to see how it was... every class has strong components of the others, so generic. It's so mind numbing easy that I was surprised after nearly a year off that the learning curve to get back in was basically 15 minutes on any of my 70s. Don't get me wrong I am all for casual content but not at the expense of all of the content.

The OP was right about one thing, there exists *nothing* like the original 45 minute baron run, especially for those who weren't in high tier raid gear. Towards the end of my BC time, even without raiding anything other than the one 10 man, my characters, even my tank were running *very* fast paced heroics of all the 5 man content. We're talking running around from group to group, 3 manning lots of the content. Was it hard? No, gear inflation made it just too easy. There was no real sense of accomplishment anymore.

Fable III will be something bold and different, Molyneux promises, stating that story and drama will play a major part in it.

Oh he promises, does he? Well he has an excellent track record for making good on his promises in the previous Fables games. I'm sure people will be rushing out to purchase the next one based on this alone.

Here's the question:

"What utility gives you information in an inode?".

They were being tricky and looking for "ls". This is not correct.

Esoteric was a poor choice of words by me, they were trying to be "too smart" for their own good and got caught up in making a mistake themselves. I've been doing unix work for quite a while (17+) across many environments and this sort of "screening" says huge amounts about the company involved and the work they do.

I was completely pleasant with the woman, we joked about the questions in fact. The simple fact was they had a stupid call screen process straight out the egotistical dot.com days, which showed much about the types of "engineers" they like to bring in.

Thanks for assuming that I was an ass thought. :)

Recently I decided to move from contracting to full time work as the job market is balls here in the Bay currently for Contracts. Twitter was one of the companies which I applied and I had the pleasure of having a "phone screen" with them for a senior unix position. Here's what this screen was, a basic unix question, that any lunix user could get. A more intermediate type question that could trick some people. And finally their *BIG SCREEN* a tricky question that was based on esoteric knowledge that had absolutely nothing to do with one's ability to perform the job.

The person calling me was just reading these off a list, she didn't know why they were picked and was only able to write down the answers. Here's the hilarious part, I informed her that the question was silly and there's no reason anyone should really care about this sort of information except in extreme situations. That this was the question that lead me to believe they had a culture of primadonnas. She diligently wrote all this down, in case they still wanted to talk to me.

But here's the REAL kicker, their stupid asinine esoteric question? Was wrong. They had the phrasing wrong... what they were asking and looking for in an answer were not the same things. Being a pedantic asshole, in my followup to tell them what I thought of their process I pointed this out. Never heard anything back ;) Wonder if they have fixed their question yet?

There's nothing that says the data was stored on any publicly accessible server. What is said is that there was a code insertion that could have been used to transfer data out. The attackers probably patched into whatever lame backend system they were using for these transactions and added a little bit of code to simply copy the details out to a URL/irc bot somewhere. Cases like these typically involve some inside help or an ex-employee.