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I do wonder what their next phablet will be called. I like my note for and would have been in the market for an upgrade shortly  will have to wait for a while yet!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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If you want to attract and keep developers, don’t emphasize ping-pong tables, lounges, fire pits and chocolate fountains. Give them private offices or let them work from home, because uninterrupted time to concentrate is the most important and scarcest commodity. Nah, let's just schedule another meeting.
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I actually wouldn't want to work in a private office, as I don't think it's a productive environment. I prefer to work alongside my colleagues. We have banter which helps us as a team to form bonds and get along, and if we run into problems or have a question we only need to swivel round a chair for a discussion.
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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Over the years, I've been in the cube farm, shared office, private office and now, cube farm again.
Generally, I don't object to the cube farm or shared office, IF, and it is always a big IF my cube mates or office mates agree that we are there to work, not to socialize. Some socialization is fine.. but the emphasis is on work. And please.. don't subject me to your choice of music, and I'll not subject you to mine.
If you are watching a training video or anything else with sound on your desktop, please use head phones or ear buds.
I think one of the worst experiences was someone in the cube farm that added a bell ringer to their phone so they could hear if wherever they were in the office area - and proceeded to put the bell ringer on top of the cube wall, that way we could ALL hear it, even when he chose to ignore it.
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Try working on a bench with 12 other people on your bench, 600 people on the floor with only a central block of offices.
Now add a comedian with a laugh like a donkey bray, a tiny little asian woman who has a mouth like a sewer pit (swearing not stench), 4 people who do phone support, 2 people who insist that every call is on speaker phone and you begin to envisage my work environment!
I work in the worst conditions I have ever been subjected to.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Yes, yes and yes. Open Spaces kill productivity. Open Space while surrounded by service personnel (who often has to answer to service calls on the phone with the other guy being on a 100+ dB environmwent) and salesman simply zeroes productivity.
DURA LEX, SED LEX
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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The Federal Communications Commission just smacked Comcast with a $2.3 million fine — the ‘largest civil penalty’ ever issued to a cable operator. *evil laugh* *justice induced laugh* *and another evil laugh*
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I'm happy about that, but I think two or three more zeros would send a very painful and needed message.
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Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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We’ve known for more than two years that Facebook has been working on a version of its app for organizations. It’s now out of beta, has a new name and is available to everyone, and it’s called Workplace. Hmmm. Does that comparison make sense?
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"The semiconductor industry has long assumed that any gate below 5 nanometers wouldn't work, so anything below that was not even considered," University of California at Berkeley researcher Sujai Desay says. In recent years, though, that assertion has looked shaky, and now it's been thoroughly disproved thanks to the discoveries made by scientists at UC Berkeley and the magic of carbon nanotubes. Or, as they're more commonly known, graphene. Ready for some hardcore science about transistor elements that are a fraction of the width of a human hair?
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Brian Krebs is a popular reporter on the cybersecurity beat. He regularly exposes cybercriminals and their tactics, and consequently is regularly a target of their ire. Last month, he wrote about an online attack-for-hire service that resulted in the arrest of the two proprietors. In the aftermath, his site was taken down by a massive DDoS attack. Security, security, security.
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While there is plenty of blame to attach to the IOT manufacturers, it maybe unrealistic to expect them to have the resources of a computing giant to address security and make their devices receive regular updates.
We should probably also consider how to mitigate against such attacks by looking at the Internet infrastructure - essentially blocking the traffic of such attacks before it gets to the service being attacked - and distributing this work within the various routers and servers that form the backbone of the Internet.
I cannot see how this can be realistically addressed any other way.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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When they're churning out crapware which can be remote accessed using methods almost trivial as telnet root/[no password] over the internet (and I wouldn't be surprised if there's at least one IoPT device that does have that login method enabled) we can to demand that their keyboards be slammed into their fingers until both are shattered into a bazillion pieces.
These aren't primarily sophisticated attacks, they're gross negligence and there should be very real consequences.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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With software houses going for cheap developers with fancy titles from unknown facilities, aided by Google advertising courses "Learn a new skill in a day!" what would you expect?
Actually I hope there will be massive attacks to IoT stuff, possibly with victims and high profile damages. That would, hopefully, restore our industry to one of skill and will to work instead of one of fancy new age marketing.
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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While I agree with you, the sad fact is that they come from countries which have no rules, no morals, and absolutely not a care in the world except for making a profit.
There will be no consequences. It's completely up to us to defend against them.
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Rob Grainger wrote: While there is plenty of blame to attach to the IOT manufacturers, it maybe unrealistic to expect them to have the resources of a computing giant to address security and make their devices receive regular updates.
Then they should keep their fingers away from something that...
1) They don't really understand
2) They don't really master
3) They can't keep up-to-date
I mean... If you can't do it well... don't do it.
Rob Grainger wrote: We should probably also consider how to mitigate against such attacks by looking at the Internet infrastructure - essentially blocking the traffic of such attacks before it gets to the service being attacked - and distributing this work within the various routers and servers that form the backbone of the Internet.
Agree... but one thing doesn't justify the other.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
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The CIA claims to be able to predict social unrest days before it happens thanks to powerful super computers dubbed Siren Servers by the father of Virtual Reality, Jaron Lanier. Next step, Minority Report-style arrests. "You weren't protesting yet, but you were gonna."
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I have run several super-simulations on my super-computers, and I still cannot predict who I believe less: the CIA; or, Jaron Lanier.
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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Instead of predicting such days, they should work on avoid them by not provoking them.
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Tovalds was full of surprises at last week’s Linaro Connect conference, when he was asked about his favorite chip architecture. He didn’t blink before saying it was x86, not ARM. Torvalds has an affinity for x86 because of the infrastructure and ecosystem
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RISC CPUs are a bit of PITA to develop for, while CISC has a lot more room for automatic processor-dependant optimization.
Of course the elegance of RISC machine code is absolutely unparalleled, but sometimes the assebler codes are exercises in mental contorsionism (not that SSE isn't contorted, just think of the strange oniric sequences of punpckh**, punpckl**, pshuf*,...).
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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Javascript is a weird and wonderful language that lets us write some crazy code that's still valid. It tries to help us out by converting things to particular types based on how we treat them. Interesting. Possibly funny.
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