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Comment Ludicrous expectations (Score 4, Insightful) 241

by carlivar on Saturday December 22, 2012 @11:19PM (#42372999) Attached to: The Trials and Tribulations of a Would-Be Facebook Employee

I don't think this guy understands much about how corporate networking works. If he's a developer, I suppose he doesn't need to, but maybe he could check into details before writing:

"isn't it worthwhile for Facebook recruiting to prepare for such a case, and make the interviewer able to switch to a different Facebook IP range, to give Skype routing a second chance?"

Yeah, um, I don't know of *any* company that would set up their HR staff for such a scenario. And this interviewee doesn't seem to understand how Internet routing works. Assuming the particular Facebook HR office is BGP multi-homed, the Facebook NetOps staff would have to determine what IP address the interviewee is connecting with and then modify BGP local-preference for that AS number to use a different ISP outbound. Or, have two networks with different outbound ISPs available at every desk with staff trained to switch between them.

It would be utterly ludicrous to do something like this for an interview.

What's surprising is they didn't try another option like Google Hangouts. Perhaps as a Facebook competitor, it isn't an option. Did the interviewee not have a speakerphone? He mentions being unable to both type and talk... I think they solved that problem in the 1980's.

Son Sues Mother Over Facebook Posts 428

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday April 07, 2010 @02:58PM from the check-your-family-status dept.

Most kids hate having their parents join in on a discussion on Facebook, but one 16-year-old in Arkansas hates it so much he has filed suit against his mother, charging her with harassment. From the article: "An Arkadelphia mother is charged with harassment for making entries on her son's Facebook page. Denise New's 16-year-old son filed charges against her last month and requested a no-contact order after he claims she posted slanderous entries about him on the social networking site. New says she was just trying to monitor what he was posting." Seems like he could just unfriend her.

Comment Official Oracle Support? (Score 1) 310

by carlivar on Wednesday February 17, 2010 @12:53AM (#31164970) Attached to: Ask Matt Asay About Ubuntu and Canonical

I don't know about the Linux hobbyists out there, but I've seen time and time again the one reason Ubuntu is not used in a professional environment: Oracle database support.

The way I understand it, Oracle Database only supports Red Hat Enterprise Linux. That's reason enough for most places to exclusively run RHEL or a combination of RHEL and CentOS. Because the distros are so different (especially software packaging) it doesn't make sense for a company to run both.

So my question is: do you think Oracle will ever officially support Ubuntu?

Comment Google Voice & SIP (Score 1) 283

by carlivar on Wednesday December 23, 2009 @01:40PM (#30536830) Attached to: Google About Openness

So Google, when will you be adding SIP support to Google Voice? Looking forward to it.

Comment No bias in that recommendation... (Score 1) 834

by carlivar on Monday May 11, 2009 @12:32PM (#27908657) Attached to: Go For a Masters, Or Not?

Professors in the academic bubble recommend that you stay in the academic bubble and continue to help pay their salary? Shocking.

Comment Not in the first term of anyone (Score 1) 1367

by carlivar on Monday December 08, 2008 @03:20PM (#26037479) Attached to: Time To Discuss Drug Prohibition?

There's no chance of Obama doing anything about this in his first term since it would doom his re-election.

I'm just hoping he has the balls to do something if he's elected for a second term.

Best Super Tuesday Candidate for Technology? 549

Posted by CmdrTaco on Saturday February 02, 2008 @02:18PM from the something-to-talk-about dept.

Petey_Alchemist writes "With Super Tuesday coming up and the political field somewhat winnowed down, the process of picking the nominees for the next American President is well underway. At the same time, the Internet is bustling through a period of legal questions like Copyright infringement, net neutrality, wireless spectrum, content filtering, broadband deployment. All of these are just a few of the host of issues that the next President will be pressured to weigh in on during his or her tenure. Who do you think would be the best (or worst) candidate on Internet issues?"

Bluetooth Prosthetics Help US Marine To Walk Again 127

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Friday January 25, 2008 @04:46PM from the better-stronger-faster dept.

Like2Byte writes "CNN is reporting that a US Marine who lost both his legs in Iraq is now able to walk again by using bluetooth technology to coordinate his leg movement. The two legs communicate to keep the man in motion. ' [...] Computer chips in each leg send signals to motors in the artificial joints so the knees and ankles move in a coordinated fashion. Bleill's set of prosthetics [legs] have Bluetooth receivers strapped to the ankle area. The Bluetooth device on each leg tells the other leg what it's doing, how it's moving, whether walking, standing or climbing steps, for example.'"

Submission + - Ruby on Rails 1.2 Released

Submitted by Scooter[AMMO] on Thursday January 18, 2007 @09:41PM

Scooter[AMMO] writes: David Heinemeier Hansson sent a post to the Rails Blog letting everyone know about the availability of Rails 1.2. This new version adds a slew of buff and polish to the rest of the system, as well several new features like RESTful interfaces, response formats, improved multi-byte support, and more. If you haven't checked out the web application framework that aims to renew joy within its users, give it a look. You may be amazed at how easy it makes things without sacrificing power or functionality.

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