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No coding for young men

No coding for young menPerhaps enrollments are downbecause people realize that the degree is pretty much irrelevant in the field. I know top programmers making over 100k a year who never attended college.Outsourcing and massive layoffs as a wayto manage a businesses revenue are a couple of good reasons. When...

Tags: young men, financial incentive, software product, financial, job

Discussion threads 2008-01-14

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Free the XBOX 360!!!

Free the XBOX 360!!!"Microsoft-approved"Why shouldn't Microsoft be concerned with the performance of software on XBox?Quoting:Microsoft makes both the hardware and software, and the environment is tightly controlled - only Microsoft-approved software need apply. [End quote]Vista shows that a product's reputation can be affected by the uninterest or mistakes of third...

Tags: Game players, Games, Microsoft Xbox, Microsoft Corp., game, console

Discussion threads 2008-07-23

Do college degrees get you anywhere?

Do college degrees get you anywhere?Just another thought...In the sector of work I'm in, I think IT is losing it's "elite" status as a job. With basic IT skills being aquirable with just a few certifications it is becoming less elite and more like a tradeskill not unlike an...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, payroll solutions, Benefits, Development tools, salary, job, IT IS, worker

Discussion threads 2008-07-23

2008 Pwnie Award nominees announced

Well, after getting 134 nominations, and spending countless hours pulling out nominees, the judges for the 2008 Pwnie Awards have announced the final nominees to be voted on.  From the site: The final list of nominees for the nine Pwnie Award categories is ...

Tags: Nominee, Vulnerability, XSS, Attack, Flaw, Dan, XSS Flaw, Lifelock, Security, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-07-21

Prohibition 2.0

Sunday's installment of To the Best of Our Knowledge features an interview with Larry Lessig, back at least briefly it seems, on the Re/Mix wars. One of his main themes in that interview was quite apropos of a comment on my post about the mom suing Universal over take-down...

Tags: Criminal, Larry Lessig, Intellectual Property, Research & Development, Business Operations, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-07-21

The running scandal of long-term care insurance

The running scandal of long-term care insuranceLong-term Care Insurance"With 79 million of us now headed past our warrantee expirations, the cost of caring for us is about to explode. It’s a ticking bomb under the economy, and the free market does not have an answer for it."Here's the answer: Plan...

Tags: Vertical industries, long-term care, long-term care insurance

Discussion threads 2008-07-21

My Awesome IT Job: Senior security engineer, VoIP carrier

Hey, we all complain about work from time to time; we've all had lousy jobs. But before you call it a day and head off to the support group that meets at the bar, here are a few words from IT pros that love their work. "I...

Tags: Network, Information Technology, Hobby, Telephony, VOIP, Telecommunications, Security, Networking, Deb Perelman

Blog posts 2008-07-18

(Photos: Grand dams of the South)

(Photos: Grand dams of the South)damn tourHow can you do a writeup of a damn tour without stealing lines from National Lampoon's Vegas Vacation movie?!! Ok, here's a quote from the tour guide..."Welcome everyone, I'm your dam tour guide Arnie. Im about to take you through at fully functional...

Tags: photograph, OK Here

Discussion threads 2008-07-18

Dangerous High School Girls in Trouble (exe)

Dangerous High School Girls in Trouble is the game where good girls get better by being bad. Welcome to 1920s Brigiton, USA. This fantastical little town is the home of wily young girls, steadfast boys, and small-minded adults. Here you will gather your gang in the days of Mae West,...

Tags: Cigarette, Girl, Mousechief, Games, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2008-07-18

In America money is life

In America money is lifeWhat a crock[i]while the U.S. is both rich and powerful, it is “woefully behind when it comes to providing opportunity and choices to all Americans to build a better life.”[/i] OK, let me get this straight. There is someplace else in the world that...

Tags: Warm-Weather, Woody Allen

Discussion threads 2008-07-17

In America money is life

We're becoming a nation of young minorities serving aging, rich white folks who die before their clients. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: U.S., Life, Income, Health Care, Liberals, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Operational Accounting, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Finance, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-07-17

Ringleader of cybercrime group to be offered a job as cybercrime fighter

Owen Thor Walker, a 18 years old ringleader of an international cybercrime group, known as AKILL, part of the A-Team, a group of 8 script kiddies which were all caught in a operation called "Operation Bot Roast II" bust executed by the FBI and several international law enforcement agencies in...

Tags: Job, Malware, Bot, Malware Bot, PRIVMSG, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-07-16

Did Sally Field break grandma's bone?

Did Sally Field break grandma's bone?They shouldn't be advertised.He's right - the interactions with the body are complicated, and which drugs you take should be discussed with your doctor, not decided by an ad you've seen on TV.You should never be influenced by an ad to take a certain drug,...

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, TV, advertisement

Discussion threads 2008-07-16

Twitter And Summize Sitting In A Tree. M-E-R-G-I-N-G

I can almost picture the scene - two young CEOs meet on a Spring day at New York's Shake Shack to talk about their planned nuptials. After they polish off their fries and the chocolate shake with one straw (I'm assuming), they head over for a stroll through Union Square...

Tags: Twitter, Blogging, Performance Management, Mergers & Acquisitions, E-mail Providers, Internet, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Investment, Finance, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-07-15

Viacom, Google cut deal on user data

Viacom, Google cut deal on user dataIf I see one I'll let you know NT&Viacom, Google cut deal on user dataOh this is funny. Google never cared about user privacy before and now that they are going to be sued into oblivion they suddenly care? I hope Viacom hits...

Tags: INTERNET, Digital media, Google Inc., Viacom Inc., user data

Discussion threads 2008-07-15

The fastest way to learn open source

The fastest way to learn open sourceReally?You wrote:One of the biggest problems in computing today is the shortage of young programmers, and one of the chief reasons for that is a shortage of readable, basic guides which can act as textbooks in high schools.[End quote.]I'd thought there were more programmers...

Tags: Development tools, Programming languages, Scripting languages, programmer, open source

Discussion threads 2008-07-15

The Kübler-Ross of iPhone

The Kübler-Ross of iPhoneI think Kubler-Ross missed oneActually, there is one that should be added: Apathy. I guess it would start at the same stage as Denial, but never progresses beyond the simple "who cares" level.I won't ever buy an iPhone...why not? Because I don't care about having...

Tags: Web browsers, Apple iPhone, Web browser, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-07-15

Hyperlocal social networking: iPhone 3G may be the trigger

Hyperlocal social networking: iPhone 3G may be the triggernice articleNice information and article. Thank you. I agree. Apple does target a lot of teenagers and young adults with all these Networking Apps. )RE: Hyperlocal social networking: iPhone 3G may be the triggerM:Metrics is now part of "comScore", not Compete.com.RE: Hyperlocal...

Tags: M:Metrics, Hyperlocal social networking, Hyperlocal, social networking, iPhone 3G, trigger, 3G, Apple iPhone, network

Discussion threads 2008-07-14

EPIC iFAIL

EPIC iFAILhmmm 2.0iPhone software 2.0 can import all your contacts from your SIM card. JUST FYI.RE: EPIC iFAILWell since you have a T-Mobile phone and it also has a SIM card you can copy all your contacts to your SIM card and Then all you have to do is have...

Tags: Flash memory, OK IT, EPIC iFAIL, EPIC, Apple iPhone, lunatic, SIM card, reasonable people

Discussion threads 2008-07-11

Care-O-Bot, your future robotic butler

German researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute have introduced their third generation of household robots, the Care-O-Bot 3. The previous generations of this mobile robot assistant were designed to assist elderly or handicapped people in daily life activities. But now, this new 1.45 meter-high robot is intended to be an artificial...

Tags: Tray, Household Article, System Resource, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-07-11