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Tales from the Interview: Hypothetical Question & Tales From The Dump
via The Daily WTF by Alex Papadimoulis on July 02, 2008
Hypothetical Questionfrom SimonI’m usually pretty good with interview questions, but this one threw me for a bit of a loop. “Hypothetical question,” the Interviewer asked, “you have an irate customer on the phone. He says the server is not working correctly. He is demanding that an engineer goes on site to fix it. So what do you do?” “Well,” I responded, “I arrange a time to go on...
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First Images of Solar System's Invisible Frontier
via Slashdot by ScuttleMonkey on July 02, 2008
FiReaNGeL writes an unexpected side-effect from NASA's STEREO spacecraft has allowed scientists to see a much more well defined picture of the boundary of our solar system. "The twin STEREO spacecraft were launched in 2006 into Earth's orbit about the sun to obtain stereo pictures of the sun's surface and to measure magnetic fields and ion fluxes associated with solar explosions....
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CodeSOD: It Gets Worse Each Year
via The Daily WTF by Alex Papadimoulis on June 18, 2008
"A while back," Steven Victor wrote, "I was asked to look at an issue where numerical data 'kept getting more and more inaccurate' in newer versions of a software product." "After some searching, I came across some code that converted an integer into a string representation of the value. It used the common "itoa" function, and since it was pretty run-of-the mill data meant to be...
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Congrats to everyone.
via indexed by noreply@blogger.com (Jessica Hagy) on June 18, 2008
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Internet Argument
via xkcd.com by (author unknown) on June 18, 2008
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Comic for June 18, 2008
via Dilbert Daily Strip by (author unknown) on June 18, 2008
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All Your Coffee Are Belong To Us
via Slashdot by kdawson on June 18, 2008
Wolf nipple chips writes "Craig Wright discovered that the Jura F90 Coffee maker, with its honest-to-God Jura Internet Connection Kit, can be taken over by a remote attacker, who can cause the coffee to be weaker or stronger; change the amount of water per cup; or cause the machine to require service (call this one a DDoC). 'Best yet, the software allows a remote attacker to gain access to...
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Ramblings - When Did Reviews Become Entertainment?
via FreeAllegiance Forums Community Blog List by (author unknown) on June 18, 2008
As I write this I’m eagerly awaiting the next Zero Punctuation game review on TheEscapist (if you haven’t go and watch some now. Don’t worry, we’ll all wait for you).Now why do I watch these reviews so dedicatedly? Back in the day when games were made by spoddy kids in their bedrooms and the Spectrum ruled the Earth games reviews were there to tell you which spoddy kids had produced the...
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Survey: young people happy to pay for music—on their terms
via Ars Technica by nate@arstechnica.com (Nate Anderson) on June 17, 2008
A major new music survey from the UK finds that young people are willing to pay for music, but only on their terms. Those terms? Unlimited downloads, no DRM, and total control.Read More...
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Wiretapping Law Sparks Rage In Sweden
via Slashdot by kdawson on June 17, 2008
castrox writes "This Wednesday at 9am the Swedish Parliament is voting on a new wiretapping law which would enable the civil agency (FRA — Defense Radio Agency) to snoop on all traffic crossing the Swedish border. E-mail, fax, telephone, web, SMS, etc. 24/7 without any requirement to obtain a court order. Furthermore, by law, the sitting Government will be able to instruct the wiretapping...
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