Who is "Scripps News" and why are they giving people a hard time through IP faggotry?

They could die tomorrow for all I care.

Lately, in another publication

http://spectrum.ieee.org/podcast/at-work/tech-careers/why-bad-jobsor-no-jobshappen-to-good-workers/

"One of the things that used to happen is that there were HR managers in recruiting who would look at those requisitions and say, “You know, do you really need that? Do you really think you’re going to be able to find somebody like that?” And there was push back. Those people have largely been eliminated through successive downsizing, so there’s nobody there to buffer those expectations. The next thing that happens is those requirements get built into recruiting software, and the recruiting software is a necessary device now, because employers have made it easy to apply for their jobs.

In the past, they wanted lots of applicants, so now they’re overwhelmed by applicants, so now every company will tell you they’re getting thousands or tens of thousands of applicants for positions. You couldn’t possibly screen them all by hand, because you can’t look at them all, so they use automated systems to do the screening. But the screening is never as good as somebody who has human judgment, and the way screening works is you build in a series of typically yes/no questions that try to get at whether somebody has the ability to do this job. And a lot of that ultimately ends up, it’s all you can ask about, is experience and credentials. So you end up with a series of yes/no questions. And you have to clear them all, and I think people building these don’t quite understand that once you have a series of these yes/no questions built in, and the probabilities are cumulative right? You have to hit them all, then you pretty easily end with no one that can fit."

So say that the odds are 50 percent that the typical applicant will give you the right answer in terms of what you’re looking for for the first question, and a 50 percent that they’ll give you the right answer to the second question. Well, then, you’re down to one in four people who will clear those two hurdles, and once you run it out to about 10 questions, it gets you down to about one in 1000 people who would clear those hurdles. And by the way, the first hurdle is usually, What wage are you looking for? And if you guess too high, out that goes, right? So then you’re at the purple squirrel point, where at the end of the day, you find that nobody fits the job requirement. So in the book I describe one anecdote some employer told me about having 25 000 applicants for an engineering job, a reasonably standard engineering job, and the recruiting process indicated none of them were qualified to do the job. How could that happen? Well it’s not that hard once you start building in these yes/no algorithms, and you run out the list, you end up with nobody who can get through.

Fag vs. Fag

Can we have a weekly comic strip?

NUKES IN SPACE!!?!

WHY NO PROTESTS! WON'T SOMEBODY THINK GREEN MARS!!!

Personal Defense Weapon, Google Sir?

May I recommend Heckler & Koch MP5 compact version. Can be kept in the glove compartment. This also very nice, Fabrique Nationale P90, has patented linear magazine, very maniable. Keeps people away. No more stone throwing.

Pray tell, what is this "TV" you speaketh off, dear sir?

Wasn't it popular in the times of Queen Victoria and Lady Thatcher?

Wag the Blog!

> used to spread propaganda messages supporting the Syrian regime.

As opposed to the continuous propaganda from "western newswires" hitlerizing the Syrian regime and fanning moral outrage at "massacres" while they omit to say that "the West" (i.e. the US and its côterie of hapless chiuahuas) is currently building up and financing radical islamists including an Al Qaeda revival party together with such beacons of democracy as Saudi-Arabia and Qatar in order to level the road to Tehran.

Better get ready for some a hors-d'oeuvre of ethnic cleansing that people won't like at all, followed by the amazing blowback flambé of radical Sunni Islam in control of an industrialized nation abbutting Turkey and Israel.

Reminds me of this gem, which you may be able to find on the Internets for free:

"Social Impact of Information System Failures"

IEEE Computer, June 2009 (Vol 42. Issue 6, pages 58-65); Tamai, T.

"The case of Mizuho Securities versus the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) is archived in the 12 December 2005 issue of the Risks Digest (http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/risks/24.12.html), and additional information can be obtained from sources such as the Times (www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article755598.ece) and the New York Times (www.nytimes.com/2005/12/13/business/worldbusiness/13glitch.html?_r=1), among others.

The incident started with the mistyping of an order to sell a share of J-Com, a start-up recruiting company, on the day its shares were first offered to the public. An employee at Mizuho Securities, intending to sell one share at 610,000 yen, mistakenly typed an order to sell 610,000 shares at 1 yen.

What happened after that was beyond imagination. The order went through and was accepted by the Tokyo Stock Exchange Order System. Mizuho noticed the blunder and tried to withdraw the order, but the cancel command failed repeatedly. Thus, it was obliged to start buying back the shares itself to cut the loss. In the end, Mizuho’s total loss amounted to 40 billion yen ($225 million). Four days later, TSE called a news conference and admitted that the cancel command issued by Mizuho failed because of a program error in the TSE system. Mizuho demanded compensation for the loss, but TSE refused. Then, Mizuho sued TSE for damages."

....We then segue into design horror....

"The part of the system that handles order cancellation appears to have low modularity. The logic in part B of the flowchart made a wrong judgment because the information telling it that the target order had induced the reverse special quote had been temporarily written on the Stock Brand DB by the order matching module and had already been cleared. This implies an accidental module coupling between the order matching and order cancelling modules. The order cancellation module appears to have insufficient cohesion as different functions are overloaded. It is not clear how the tasks of searching the target order to be canceled, determining cancellability, executing cancellation, and updating the database are this module’s responsibility."

etc. etc.

So...

That means the program was burning money 171 TIMES FASTER THAN THE AFGHAN WAR (according to 2009 numbers)

In the Year 2000!!!

FABULOUS FIGHTS over WHO DREW A RECTANGLE FIRST on a SHITTY PIECE OF PAPER like retarded SCHOOLBOYS!

BILLIONS upon BILLIONS OF US DOLLARS INVOLVED!

See high-powered LAWYERS ARGUE!

See FANBOIS RAGE! See JUDGES 'SPLODE! See JURYS INFLUENCED!

Starring: STEVE ("DEAD JESUS") JOBS! KOH THE BEAK! Perfidious KOREAN MANUFACTURERS rubbing HANDS! Supporting Roles: USPTO BUREAUCRACY in its renowned DUMB&DUMBER SUPPORTING ROLE!

NOW IN POINTLESS DISCUSSIONS IN MESSAGE THREADS ALL OVER THE COUNTRY!!!

"HRSC orbit 10602"

This sounds like some bank has really been blown sky-high this time.

This sounds like the O.J. trial extravaganza...

...and it's just about who thought about a rectangle first?!!??

The decadence.

I want to go back to the Clinton years and its judicial faggotry spectaculars.

> Nevertheless, upping the significance of the particle find brings us a step closer to knowing that this is a new and Higgs-like elementary particle that has never been seen before. ®

HARRRRUMPH!

"Nevertheless, upping the significance of the particle find brings us a step closer to knowing that our mathematical descriptions of nature (based on Lagrangians, Gauge Symmetry, Lie Groups and yadda yadda) are unreasonably correct even though they cannot in the end be totally correct."

This is not particularly surprising

Indeed, "single quantum systems" can very well span whatever 4-vector you choose. If Alice has one end of an entangled qubit pair, and Bob another, then relative movement between Alice and Bob will be perceived as an arbitrary difference in relative moment-of-time for faraway observers, thanks to the Special Theory of Relativity.

Nature is powerful for keeping track of all possible connections between anything anywhere anytime down to near-infinite detail at every point in spacetime (is that still the cardinality of R?) but tries to avoid fixing herself on any actual value or as long as it can be avoided (as things get larger, it cannot be avoided).

Informatics people, are used to the cardinality of N, try to fix things immediately (if need be by asking the user) and want throw away any detail as fast as possible. This is practically the reverse.

Oh, I segues into a copyright discussion... oh noes!

That was a creative mash-up born in hell.

It's like one of those articles where some prof tries to demonstrate that consciousness actually, objectively exists and cannot be explained by science or imitated by application of engineering. He then sets up a strawman ("experiments with brain damaged patients SHOW that qualia are not generated in the BRAIN!") which is then meticulously destroyed.

Here the need is expressed to show that creativity actually, objectively exists, has nothing to do with plagiarism or imitation and needs the guns and badges of the state for some monopoly action on its products. Then a strawman is set up (some dude from the NYT, who he?) which is then messily destroyed.

Many questions remain!

Am I being creative if I remove the milk bottle from the fridge in a special way while fighting off my cat? Is it creative to think about the neurological basis of creativity? Is finding a creative algorithm that creates for me actually being creative or is it being meta-creative? Do I get a meta-copyright?

"the rod of my [God's] anger, in whose hand is the club of my wrath".

Must. Stop. Watching. Porn.

How about some nice ladies finally finding interest in all the work?

"Oh Mr. sysadmin, that's a LOOOONG Perl script you got there... "

Ah nah, I will again be accused of gender-biased favoritism.

Really, it says there "up to 20x faster queries". The people in charge of the moneybog DO KNOW that this MEANS "we ultimately managed to find a query, that, if optimized in a very special way (compiler options include at least the options -abcdefgh), performed 15 times faster than a similar query on a nonoptimized software-hardware combination of the competitor which had about half the CPUs and half the RAM of our machine and which ran generic softwar"

Right?

So they cut some corners? There is patent for that!

Additionally:

"Each A5 processor has a unique identifier that is fused into the chip which cannot be changed and this is used to authenticate the device with software."

So when Intel does it, hell breaks loose, but with Apple it's all right? Very well, then.

Don't remind me!!

I still have to read the REAMDE, it's on the TODO stack occupying most of my in-house BossDesk.

> slowing pace of technological advancement, had contributed to the science fiction genre shifting from the optimism of Clarke and Asimov to a darker, more dystopian bent

It might also have to do with the depressing conveyor belt of retards, psychos, political entrepreneurs, showmen and socialist economists runining the economy as well as foreign lands and transforming people into sizzling steaks to remain in power or in the spotlight a few months more.

Bates Motel computer repair, M'dam!

Please don't let us interrupt your shower!

I commend the PRC CONTROL PARTY

...for not once using the word "terrorism" when telling its customers what to do.