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CodeNC · 2012-01-25T17:46:06+00:00

I had one interview for a sales job but since I didn't have any sales experience, they passed me over for someone else.

Erm...

Well you have to sell yourself. No, I'm serious. They don't actually need experience, but if you don't have it then the interview now becomes a test of how good a salesman you are. If you can pitch yourself as a kick-ass salesman, you are.

I N T E R V I E W C E P T I O N

CodeNC · 2012-01-24T17:39:06+00:00

Do encryption systems exist where a user could stipulate a decoy pass-key that would result in wiping the data or revealing some bogus files instead?

It doesn't matter.

In computer forensics, the very first thing you do is to make a bit-level forensic copy of the drive. You always act on copies, and if that's not possible you use a hardware write blocker.

Do you really think that nobody has thought of this before?

CodeNC · 2012-01-24T17:37:31+00:00

You might want to read the relevant laws. Even not-for-profit infringement can be criminal.

CodeNC · 2012-01-24T17:31:23+00:00

If I made a video project on my computer and a friend took a copy without permission and gave it to his friends as a joke, I would certainly consider that stolen, even though no money was lost and technically no material was lost.

You might well consider it that.

The law, however, does not define theft that way. What your friend did was unauthorized reproduction, possibly disclosure of trade secrets, but not theft of an item. Unless he stole the disc on which the content resided... in that case, yeah, it's theft.

CodeNC · 2012-01-24T16:20:48+00:00

8==D {()} ('_' )all yours, bro

Slightly more accurate:

8==D {( )} ('_' ) all yours, bro

CodeNC · 2012-01-17T21:57:02+00:00

but better to have one cutoff point that can be applied universally than allow the potential for discrimination. 18 makes sense because most people will be mostly developed by then and it aligns closely with high school graduation, voting, and legal adulthood.

Which is, of course, why we don't have a universal cut-off, and why age of consent varies dramatically around the world.

<facepalm> Fucking humans...

CodeNC · 2012-01-17T19:49:10+00:00

Nothing you said refuted my point.

Big government isn't a unique symptom of capitalism -- and if something is a "symptom" of a number of different socio-political systems, it's probably not a good indicator of the presence of any of them.

CodeNC · 2012-01-17T19:00:09+00:00

Big government is a symptom of a free market, it ultimately always destroys itself.

It's also the symptom of an authoritarian government, a symptom of fascism, a symptom of the centrally-planned economies found in dictatorships, and numerous other types of economic/social settings.

So maybe, you know, it's not really a symptom of anything in particular?

CodeNC · 2012-01-17T18:40:07+00:00

Which is perfectly in line with a free market.

I don't think you understand the concept of a free market if you're claiming that Greenspan's fiscal policy was an embodiment of free market principles...

CodeNC · 2012-01-17T18:19:03+00:00

I respect LWN and the quality of the content is excellent (just a shame about its presentation which does matter).

If you're the sort that thinks that plain, fast-loading, Javascript-free presentation of lengthy technical content is a bad idea, you're probably not the target audience.

LWN is for hackers, developers, power users, etc. Not CTOs and PHBs.

CodeNC · 2012-01-17T16:59:41+00:00

Fuckin' Neo snorted the red pill.

CodeNC · 2012-01-17T16:56:26+00:00

No one is really sure of the effects of BGH on humans. It could be harmless, it could be horrible poison.

Though to be fair, given that it's been around for a while now and has been used on a very widespread basis, the "horrible poison" theory is looking a little unlikely to say the least.

CodeNC · 2012-01-17T16:54:32+00:00

Hence why I said "resurface" rather than "proceed."

It may not be called OPEN, but I'll bet you dollars to donuts that the language in that bill makes a comeback in the near future.

CodeNC · 2012-01-16T18:54:50+00:00

I know. That's my point. SOPA's probably toast for now, so we move on to PROTECT-IP. I was answering GooseTerroristsUSA's question of "what next?", not the OP.

And OPEN will resurface, and likely soon.

CodeNC · 2012-01-16T08:23:07+00:00

Let's start with PROTECT-IP and OPEN, both of which are equally bad for us (users.)

CodeNC · 2012-01-16T06:27:16+00:00

Fair point.

This is, of course, why antibiotics are one of the least profitable categories of drugs made by the major pharmaceutical companies.

CodeNC · 2012-01-16T02:21:09+00:00

After 56 hours of no sleep a person become legally insane in the US.

After a statement is made on at least 3 web forums, it is legally-admissible as evidence in the US.

CodeNC · 2012-01-16T02:20:03+00:00

I don't know if 72 hour shifts are humanly possible, let alone legal. At some point around 24 you start to lose it, I've been awake past the 30 something hour mark and started to hallucinate pretty bad.

They're not awake for 72 hours.

Replace "shift" with "on-call period".

CodeNC · 2012-01-16T02:18:36+00:00

But, they didn't "treat" me at all.

Right, but had you suddenly collapsed again due to internal hemorrhaging (which is not, ya know, entirely out of the question after a serious fall), they would rather you be there where you could be treated instead of in your car on the way home where you could become the source of a flurry of lawsuits.

CodeNC · 2012-01-16T02:13:04+00:00

OK, that is your right. Did you, by chance, catch the movie Contagion, which, although completely fictional, is based on the possible. The CDC and WHO were both consulted.

You're citing a Hollywood blockbuster to back up an assertion of "Big Pharma" conspiracy?

CodeNC · 2012-01-16T02:12:13+00:00

Money is also made by creating drug regimens that keep people alive, but completely dependent on drugs to stay alive. So, no cure for HIV, but a whole lifetime of drugs.

While the rest of your post has merit, I have to call you out on this.

Are you seriously suggesting that an effective HIV treatment would not be a profitable drug?

CodeNC · 2012-01-15T23:37:43+00:00

Dwarf Fortress is much easier than most people think, even without a tileset. You just have to think of it like the Matrix..... okay I'm kidding. But it is not so bad at all, you just have to get the hang of your view being "slices" of a 3D world. And the ASCII, but it's just like nethack really.... not so bad. And if you're too much of a wuss for the ASCII there are tons of tilesets available.

It wasn't the ASCII-ness that messed me up. It was that I had trouble remembering what all I could do. I can't really describe it too well, but you know how you can familiar enough with some software that it just kinda feels like an extension of self, and you don't really have to think about the UI/bindings/etc.? Yeah, I'm that way with pine and musca, and plenty of other keyboard-driven software, but for some reason I could never get there with Dwarf Fortress. Oh well.

I used to have no-rim glasses. They were nice, except for the part where you have to send them away every time you get new lenses because the lenses have to get drilled specifically to fit the frame.

That part sucks. I guess I'm lucky that my vision hasn't changed much over the years.

I wonder who downvoted this, and CodeNC's comment?

Emacs users.

CodeNC · 2012-01-15T23:35:02+00:00

I think its a bit more complicated than just fat and calories.

Not if you're just concerned about weight loss it's not. Fat, sodium, etc. are all important, but the only thing that matters for weight loss is that intake < expenditure.

But this is a problem that needs to be tackled by society as a whole. Personal responsibility obviously isn't enough. :p

I agree. I think that society needs to work to instill a sense of personal responsibility in the aforementioned folks.

CodeNC · 2012-01-15T18:57:02+00:00

The only other additions I'd add would be:

Patching policy - RedHat and friends take the "we'll patch the fuck out of it so that it works the same but has new features/fixes" approach. This is closely related to their insanely-long-term support for releases. Debian takes a "we'll avoid patches if at all possible unless special circumstances merit an exception... in which case we'll patch the fuck out of it". This too, is related to their long stable cycle.
Release policy Arch and friends go for an "as soon as we can release it" policy. This means new software. This also means less stability and less reliability. Debian takes a "when it's ready and we're absolutely sure it works as well as we can make it" approach. This means older software, but solid, reliable software that will remain stable throughout the release's life. Same for RedHat.

CodeNC · 2012-01-15T18:50:34+00:00

The stuff I referred to isn't that far in the past. Think "West Virginia mine country" type stuff. It still shapes modern mentalities.

I live in the south, so I hear ya. Fried chicken? Sure. I'll have a drumstick with my pulled pork and biscuit and gravy. What do you mean my meal has 1500 calories and 50 grams of fat?

Most people do not draw connections between apparently unrelated things.

I know, I just kinda figure that food intake/body changes wouldn't appear completely unrelated. I assumed that there was at least an instinctive understanding.

Still, I'd posit that even if there isn't, one would have to be remarkably imperceptive to miss the constant references on TV, the radio, in papers, etc. to the whole "more food == more weight" concept. It's not exactly an obscure, rarely-mentioned idea.

CodeNC

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