I think GIMP adoption is set to rise significantly after this...

http://www.gimp.org

Bing finds LESS malware than Google because it offers up 5 times MORE malware to users than an equivalent Google search. The title may lead one to believe that Microsoft is BETTER at finding malware, but in fact, they suck MORE at it...

If you read the article, the mpm (Malware per Million) is quite low in any case, but because there are billions of searches a day, that makes the odds much more likely to occur than, say winning the Lottery...

Taking a position like this on public voting is as much an admission that there will be voter fraud in this election as anything I've heard at this point.

It is unfortunate, because I live in Texas and hate what this represents about the state (and the image it projects to the rest of the world about America).

If someone is lazy enough not to learn how to correctly form a proper sentence, they are likely lazy enough to do a crappy job at their other responsibilities. As a hiring manager for a global company, I check grammar in resumes and applications as well as speech during interviews. I don't want to have an employee unable to properly communicate with other regional offices or any publicly-facing entity as a representative of the company.

Grammar seems to have become a lost art to an entire generation. Good luck to them, but I'm not hiring any of them.

HR policy may vary from company to company and from personal experience, HR departments tend not to always understand "current times" -- instead adopting more traditional conservative methods and practices.

I recently hired an network engineer with no formal college degree, but because of the level I was bringing him into the organization, HR flatly disagreed with the candidate choice because of the lack of college degree. There's a certain amount of merit to some of this perspective -- the social growth and confidence attending college brings, but in terms of strict qualifications, the position I was hiring for did not require a degree -- just equivalent experience. We had to do a bit of battle with HR to justify the hiring of someone without the degree (but plenty of equivalent experience).

I guess my point is that your mileage may vary -- if you intend to grow within your current organization, work with HR and your manager to understand the policies (they may even pay for some of the cost!). It will help you move your career forward making informed decisions about partaking in the additional education and training you want to pursue.

I suspect the trend in the future might be to see much more of the online certifications in the job market and over time, HR departments in more traditional enterprise verticals may warm up to it...

In preliminary testing, we've been able to get some Android devices connected using Juniper VPN. It does appear there are some variations depending on device and version of Android that is running, but in most cases things do appear to work well. The only issue some of the power users have is that the Pulse client needs to have fairly significant access to the device to install correctly...

My question: Do you feel the security concerns over collected information will trump the leveraging of information in future Internet technologies? Will there be a separate "opt-in" or "opt-out" web to cater to each preference?

Context: There have been many controversies recently regarding the collection of data and the privacy of individual information. As we move forward, I've heard a mixed set of messages regarding the direction we should expect to see.

Consumerism is indeed driving innovation and everything is going mobile these days (there's an app for that I think). One example I heard recently of the benefit of the convergence of information and mobility: a consumer can point their mobile phone at a shelf of groceries, get an active "overlay" of information regarding the products and determine which best suits the customer needs. On the flip side, sensors that track customer behavior are installed at the grocery shelf and based on detected behavior (like stopping for a moment to reminisce about Coco-Puffs even though you know they are bad for you) initiates a coupon for whatever the vendor may feel would provide enough motivation to purchase their product -- in the example a $1 off coupon to the mobile phone of a shopper.

Will this become reality in the future? I think there are benefits to be had, but also am fiercely protective of my personal information and preferences.

Describe the details in a post to http://www.reddit.com/r/programming

There's quite a concentrated community in some of the sub-reddits -- you are bound to find a kindred spirit with a passion for the application that may not realize it is at risk. The community is very interactive and may be helpful in finding a home for the ailing project...

Demonoid.com moved themselves over to Demonoid.me precisely for this purpose...

for a 20 person shop, a single or dual (redundant) virtualized system can certainly host any app your business needs, including e-mail, fileserver, databases, applications, web, whatever... You can buy a couple of nice servers with lots of memory, a nice Drobo box or similar NAS for storage and a couple basic licenses for VMWare vSphere (or even go with a free alternative). That would give you enough horsepower to run a business on and scale to meet any modest growth...

Buy a third box and setup a test/dev environment too. You can test patches and updates and roll out new technology without impacting production. You can get your hands dirty with the technology in the test environment and learn a few things while your at it..

I have a QNAP T-209 Pro II -- its just a NAS device (I have 2x 1T drives in it). It does a bunch of things I needed, and a bunch more that I didn't. I love it -- it replaced 2 servers in my closet.

The new 110 draws 36W and allows you to throw in a single drive (200-series houses 2 drives, etc):

http://www.qnap.com/pro_detail_feature.asp?p_id=136

With the standard free QPKG add-ons it can do everything you listed and more...