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Comment Re:Let's be professionals, people (Score 1) 329

The interviewer asked, for a minute and a half, over and over in a hostile cross-examination fashion, if they were going to fix their "security problems."

To which he should have replied something like: "Let's be clear: our security problem, if you want to use the term, is that our security is too good for governments to easily circumvent." Then point out that the governments already have this access to other forms of communication, that RIM must comply with local government requirements, that RIM is working to clearly communicate to their users that truthful state of government access so that users can decide for themselves whether Blackberrys are private enough for their needs [not sure if this last part is true, but it should be]. The other option (to pull out of these markets) makes no sense for RIM and does nothing to help dissidents either.

Hey, can I be CEO now?

Comment Re:Good developers dont have time to take many tes (Score 1) 440

The point with a question like this is that there is no one right answer, although there are many wrong ones. If you're proficient in C++ could could answer about the syntax and technical characteristics, or about reusable components comprising state and behaviour, whatever your way of looking at it is. But the key is that you need to already have an established understanding that you can express somehow. (The ability to verbalize abstract concepts may be just as important as technical details).

So to answer your question: life is all the moments between when you're born and when you die. There, that wasn't so hard.

PC Games (Games)

Video Games Linked To Child Aggression 500

the4thdimension writes "CNN is running a story this morning that explains new research showing a correlation between video games and aggression in children. The study monitored groups of US and Japanese children, asking them to rate their violent behavior over a period of several months while they played video games in their free time. The study concludes that it has 'pretty good evidence' that there is a link between video games and childhood aggression." Stories like this make me want to smash things.
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Nobel Prize For Medicine Awarded, Physics Soon To Follow 135

Nobel Prize season is here again, and the first award for Physiology or Medicine was split between two virologists who discovered HIV and one who demonstrated that a virus causes cervical cancer. Coming soon is the announcement for Physics. Look to the right for a chance to pit your selection wit against the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences with a poll for which scientific achievement deserves the prize. Front runners, according to Reuters, are; Andre Geim and Kostya Novoselov, discovers of graphene, Vera Rubin, provider of the best evidence yet of dark matter, and Roger Penrose and Dan Shechtman, discoverers of Penrose tilings and quasicrystals.

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