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Please, please keep us updated about how it goes for you, whether you succeeded or failed. I generally don't believe in change in culture and thinking, unless it comes from a leader or authority figure, so I always kind of work around these things, but I would be so glad to know that it is possible and that you succeeded.

From my experience, it's even hard from a leader to change an existing culture, the most effective way that has worked for me is to make up a set of clever rules that reward the "correct" thinking and punishes the "wrong" thinking, instead of trying to talk people into doing things in a new way.
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More fun Doom trivia on the origin of the (id)spispopd cheat code:

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=idspispopd

The Smashing Pumpkins for their part continued to the joke by adding a sample from Doom to 'Where Boys Fear to Tread' on 'Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness'. The booklet contains the following credit: "Explosion from Doom courtesy of id Software, Inc and bobby prince Music""
If the average employee of Color didn't already know this... wow, talk about an upsetting topic. Imagine doing the math on your options, seeing that you could have made a killing, then thinking about how the founders said 'no' to the deal, then thinking about how some of the guys who made that choice jumped ship... it all would make for some bad morale.
In the same boat myself right now, currently putting together slides on open source for senior management, showing them how it could save them a fortune. Always try to make a business case when trying to push through changes, as most managers (even outside of the financial services area) will not be won over by technical arguements, no matter how strong they are.
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Yes, it just comes down to greed and so far, I can follow. The point I do not understand is.. when that blind greed goes horribly, horribly wrong then nobody has to answer and everybody gets bailed out and nothing happens against that.

That's like playing Russian roulette but instead of you, the casino's cleaning personal takes the bullet and you get a handful of cash and "strangely" enough, more and more people join to play on that table...

> hey, it's politics, right?

You summed it up PERFECTLY and couldn't hit the nail more on the head: WHY do we as the people take this kind of abuse and say something like "hey, it's politics, right?". It is basically a widely accepted fact that politicians are corrupt and recent politics is nothing but a PR and media show.. and nothing happens.

It is just wrong.
Is it like a political tradition that grandsons must bring the country to financial collapse?
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The real story here is: "How long will it take Adobe to bring their products up to speed".

Not that I'm saying they wont, and it's good that they're proactively documenting the incompatibilities between their products and Lion

That said, based on Adobe's history with Apple and OS X, and the fact that Adobe has used Flash support in iOS as a pro Adobe/Anti Apple PR tool, it's reasonable to expect them to drag their feet with this stuff.
The PowerPC cruft you refer to is Photoshop droplets no longer working.

Now I'm sure they're important for some people, but they're one tiny feature in a massive set of applications. And the functionality is still there, you just have to trigger the actions from inside Photoshop instead of creating a droplet.

...or upgrade to their latest release and "Drag your old droplets onto the Photoshop application icon. An updated version of the droplet is created in the same folder as the old one."
I agree. It's just a video where a company pushes a distorted vision of the past relationship between said company and the community it's bent on destroying because it's perceived as a threat to its business.
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I have Adobe Flash Builder 4 working on 10.7 just fine, even though the list says it won't work.
Read http://www.ribbonfarm.com/, http://www.sebastianmarshall.com/, and anything else you get your hands on about strategy. Seriously, the things that are holding you back are corporate, office and national politics. These aren't insurmountable obstacles, just impressions of them. It's a bank for goodness sake, it's not meant to be interesting.

Suits and a sterile office are not the problem. They are the symptom; and more than that, they are the signal and the filter for the type of people that work there (so I can see you having just as much problem getting your comrades-in-arms to agree to "collaboration, idea generation and non-corporatism" as your managers.)

(I've written this assuming you're not a manager. If you are, great, it'll be easier to do either of these options and you can probably shave a couple of years of the timeline!)

The best advice I can think of (other than give up, obviously) is to first prove technical competence, in the form a high-level executive understands (I saved us X million dollars on Y different occasions) and then get them to support you in setting up a team (which you will lead and will almost certainly need to recruit from outside to fill — quick, who's the first person you phone?) that will do the projects you want to do (quick, what can you do that might add a billion the bank's bottom line?) and provide the political cover to do what you want. It'll take 5-10 years, it's risky and it requires political skill.

An alternative tactic would be to think of the best technical practice that your office doesn't use that you could introduce via your co-workers, without threatening your manager, and start trying to do that. It's low key but if its an effective practice you could see payoffs quicker than the above plan. It won't get rid of the suits on its own though.

Anyway, good luck! I just really hope you weren't thinking of standing up and saying "I wish we had more foosball, fewer suits and daily pushes to our online banking app (which we are gonna rewrite in Ruby)."

(edit to add: The "How to Manage Geeks" current on the front page is also quite good, but doesn't really help you. http://www.wikihow.com/Manage-Geeks. I also recommend: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/management http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2010/08/managing_older_managers_a_gu... http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/cat_management.html)
I'm not saying this isn't bad enough. I'm just saying there are rules in place to prevent these kinds of things. Like physical network separation and machines with disabled interfaces (like network, usb, firewire). You would require physical access to steal data from those machines and it would be either guarded or locked away.

Data security is taken very seriously within the military & NATO but I can't speak for how other countries do things. Accidents happen, things are poorly secured.

I'm just speaking from my own experience, even if it is limited.
Completely misses the point of XSS and XSRF attacks. In those scenarios the 'attacking' browser is actually the attacker's victim. If you use this module, an attacker can link a victim to you and have your 'defences' arbitrarily attack them, making you part of the problem, not the solution.
His last three posts have been satire. I'm hoping he gets back to content as good as http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/10/universal-design-pat....
This is called debt restructuring, not defaulting.
You can't do 2-factor authentication with applications that don't support it. You can't do it with, for example, IMAP, period.

I am not sure about that at all. For imap for example you could be required to submit your password followed by one time code in single login command:

. login youraccount yourpasswordyourotp

So in the password prompt when the client connects you should type in your password + your otp in one step. But that is still two factor authentication. Of course there is no sense in caching/storing such password. It would be less convenient for sure but saying that you can't do 2-factor for imap is exaggeration.
Sorry if this is slightly off-topic (as it doesn't really necessarily improve "culture"), but it sounds like your bank could do with something like a password protected version of My Starbucks Idea: http://mystarbucksidea.force.com/apex/idealist?lsi=0&cat... (but for employees, instead - or maybe just your tech team).

I mention it because of the fact that you have people coming up with ideas that then get ignored. Having somewhere were ideas can go, and get voted up could be a small shift towards making those ideas actually happen.

Incidentally, Does anyone know if there's a commercially available version of that that isn't outrageously expensive? Starbucks' seems to be custom-built with Salesforce, I could be wrong.

To answer your question about working for non-corporates - I've spent a lot of time working at marketing agencies, the jobs I enjoyed the most didn't have a dress code and allowed me the time & freedom to actually implement the ideas I came up with.
If you click on the Youtube logo in the video and have opted in at http://www.youtube.com/html5 you'll see it in WebM or h.264
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I had my tongue pierced a few years back and even now (not that I do it very often), when looking in a mirror to put the ball back on the 'stick' (I don't know what it's called!) I drive myself nuts.

In one hand I'm trying to hold/'point' the 'stick' and in the other hand, not only am I trying to get the ball to the end of the stick, but at the same time trying to rotate it so that the hole in the ball lines up with the end of the stick. Everything points, moves and rolls totally against what I think it should be doing.

I, like you, find it easier to just do away with the mirror and try and work it out myself.

Having said that, this whole conversation has made me really think about the mirror and so I'm hoping that next time, it won't be so hard!
Kudos for compensation to the downvotes I received. I don't know what happened to the "ask and learn" culture.

I am not a native English speaker, and the term public domain was not self-explanatory (rather, it explained itself in the wrong way).

In Hungarian, public domain means közkincs, which is roughly equivalent to "treasure of the public". So the question seemed reasonable to ask.
What are your motivations for wanting to do this? Do you think this undertaking is easier than finding a job that would make you happier? Do you care deeply about the mission of the ... bank? Is this your first job out of college?
Germany has basically subsidized its formerly East-German states for 20 years now. Very much comparible in my opinion. After reunification, most East-German companies were not competitive (in large part due to the 1:1 exchange rate between East-Mark and DMark which was chosen for political reasons) and they never really catched up. But for West-German companies, it's a nice market to sell their products.

The real problem is that there are or will be efforts by the EU to persuade e.g. Greece to heighten the retirement age, or Ireland to increase corporate taxes -- without proper democratic legitimization. That's scary.
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Isn't the act of developing for App Engine itself "developer lock-in", regardless of language? If I could write iPhone apps in Lua or Ruby I'd still be "locked-in" to the Cocoa platform. Same with writing programs for Android, Windows, Linux, Facebook,...
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> He faces a backlash because his post allegedly violated a federal law protecting student privacy.

ftfy
Joe Blackhat isn't running the exploits - Sam Scriptkiddie is.

> All this does is produce a false sense of security which may lull system administrations into putting off critical upgrades.

Then the sys admin needs replacing.

Creating more work for those that automate system attacks is a good thing.
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We use the the article as the basis for the debate here. Sometimes that debate stays on topic, sometimes it does not. For the sake of timeliness we mostly have to assume the article is accurate, however sometimes the debate itself is regarding the authenticity of the publisher, author or sources (or lack thereof). The HN system is quite healthy IMHO
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I would argue that there is such a thing as “kind of” default. Consider a couple of scenarios and think about whether it’s a default in a “common sense” sense, whether a ratings agency would/should consider it a default or selective default, and whether it would/should be treated as a default under CDS contracts:

1) Debtor simply stops paying interest or principal.

2) Debtor makes a voluntary exchange offer, offering new debt that is generally considered to offer _better_ terms (e.g. higher interest rate but longer maturity). 90% of creditors accept.

3) Debtor makes a voluntary exchange offer, offering new debt that is generally considered to offer _worse_ terms (e.g. same interest rate but longer maturity). 80% of creditors accept, perhaps because they think it’s better than an actual default later.

4) The debt contract has a collective action cause saying that if 2/3 of creditors accept, an exchange offer is binding on everyone. 2/3 of creditors accept an exchange offer that offers worse terms.

5) Debtor makes a voluntary exchange offer. The central bank announces that a month after the exchange offer replies are due, it will stop accepting the old debt as collateral for loans by the central bank and will only accept the new debt as collateral.

Would you say that all of these are default and there are no gray areas?
Best plug-in of the year, so far.

Apart from what it says, I do not see problems in IE7 or IE8 (there is some style issues in IE9, though). Also, it is nearly working in IE6. I think I'll try to diddle around with some z-index and CSS stuff to get it working. Can't be much more than that.
Because it's always definitely the correct time, and it's inexpensive.
While the financial facts presented from greece to the eurozone before acceptance were definately massaged, that was not criminal-level fraud. Other countries had massaged their financial data as well (hint: Italy) to fit into the euro criteria (which, to be frank were quite strict). Things took the wrong turn in greece AFTER acceptance to the EU: the inflow of relatively cheap euros led to a construction boom (yes, a construction boom in a country which has the highest home-ownership in europe, but negligible industry) and massive imports of foreign goods (Not just from germany, in fact german imports were rather low). Then corruption started settling in, in a state that always looked the other way and hid everything under an (apparently huge) rug, and made no attempt to modernize and grow the economy.

As for people trying to make reforms in greece, see this article from 2007: http://www.athensnews.gr/old_issue/13235/16152
To elaborate on its usefullness: An XOR-swap is only useful when you do not have space for a new pointer, otherwise, making a new temporary variable will on most processors be faster than XOR-swapping.
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Excellent. Makes you wonder why browser vendors never improved on the usability of such controls themselves.
I was about to suggest that book, too.
Also, check out this blog post:
http://agilitrix.com/2011/03/how-to-make-your-culture-work/
which outlines some of the ideas presented in the book "The Reengineering Alternative: A plan for making your current culture work" by William Schneider.
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NATO include forces in a lot of countries already. I'm saying a lot of them do poor jobs.

Are you saying they are so good that the data incriminated is either fake or a deliberate attempt at misinformation by Nato ?
Apparently Chosen takes the placeholder text from the select element's 'title' attribute; does it also support the official HTML5 syntax[1] for placeholder attributes in select elements?

How about integration with jQueryUI's theming system?

[1]: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/...
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I am an electronics engineer, who worked for a tech startup before going out and starting a quantitative hedge fund, with money pooled in from a few friends and family. Truth to be said, I made a bit of money, for myself, slightly more for some of the investors, and lost some more for others, and lost a lot of time for myself. At one point of time I was bankrupt, 2.5 years down and staring at a dark tunnel, with no way out. I learned a lot of things,I must admit.It rewired my brain to think in contrarian ways
I am in a better position now, with a renewed hunger of growing my networth.

But, I realized that,to grow my net worth, I have to have patience and free cash, to grab opportunities which I see in the marketplace today.

So, I am looking for building "something" which will yield me a good cash flow, at minimum cost of fixed asset, with minimum capital outlay. In essence what I have chosen to highlight here, is a company/business which has superior economics of growth.
What looks like to me, is:
1. Either build a road with toll booth on it.
2. Go into the business of hooch,smoke or drugs
3. Build "something" which gives you a power of licensing.

I can code, in C,C++, Assembly, Perl to a certain extent(as you can understand in engineering languages). I am neither interested in dotcom, because revenues are as fickle as a fad and as fleeting as the fashion trends plus I dont think I can code PHP and stuff.

So what I am asking is,
1. Do you think, there is an industry pain point which can be addressed, and its such a big pain in the ass that people will pay for its solutions?

2. Do you think, I might be wrong in some of my conclusions, if yes, please do correct me, for having wrong idea is worse than having no idea.

Discovery (because I like that channel )
Maybe the legal department of Cisco is being treated as a "profit centre"
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>Why does Anonymous focus so much on attacking the US government (and related rich democratic countries) when it could instead be focused on fighting the governments that are actually oppressive?

I think a very large chunk of the world would tell you that the US is the most oppressive one. NK is oppressive to its own people, but the US' oppression goes far beyond its own borders.
This.

There should be an automatic filter, with manual review of violations, that all papers are submitted through. If it fails the filter, it's returned to the student, and the professor hasn't even seen it. The student can redo it, or protest the automated decision, and a human reviewer (an anonymous TA on-campuse) can consider the case (and see the offending text). The reviewer would then pass it on to the professor, who can grade it, or return it to the student to improve.

This removes the burden and the penalty from the professor, whose job isn't supposed to be policing plagiarism infractions.
Nice. I thought clicking on the taskbar item for the browser would be enough, but you need to click on the window.
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> things are poorly secured

I think we agree here.

> I'm just speaking from my own experience, even if it is limited.

Me also, I have a friend who could have secured himself 5 GB of data from NATO withou hacking while working there. But he wouldn't have disclosed it.

By the looks of it, all those sensitive documents must already be in the hands of the chinese government by now.
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Blacklisting is done for small temporary amounts of time

And yes, some things are not finished yet. The project was started a matter of hours ago and not even close to it's full potential

EDIT: Keep in mind you are the one who decides what modules and payloads to use. Blacklisting is optional
It's all fun and games to imagine attackers and script kiddies having trouble with this. But its scary to think what might happen if one the innocent visitors/customers are marked as attackers by mistake.
I agree - it seems like any regulated environment tends to evolve into a dreary office culture. That being said it's likely the OP could create a group that supports innovation or has a radically different culture, however, it'll be a target for internal politics. Best bet is cherry-picking best practices and then adopting them in phases.
Believe it or not, Zed Shaw once gave a great talk on doing quality work in the stifling corporate culture of large financial institutions: http://vimeo.com/2723800

It's not directly related to reforming that corporate culture, but it'll probably give you some good tips if you decided that your particular ocean is taking too long to boil.
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This torrent in particular has that covered: he included an hash of the hashes file in the message, which is signed with his PGP key.
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I'll just leave this here. DOSing Visa and Mastercard is one thing, espionage is something very different.

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Gathering or delivering defense information to aid foreign government

Whoever, with intent or reason to believe that it is to be used to the injury of the United States or to the advantage of a foreign nation, communicates, delivers, or transmits, or attempts to communicate, deliver, or transmit, to any foreign government, or to any faction or party or military or naval force within a foreign country, whether recognized or unrecognized by the United States, or to any representative, officer, agent, employee, subject, or citizen thereof, either directly or indirectly, any document, writing, code book, signal book, sketch, photograph, photographic negative, blueprint, plan, map, model, note, instrument, appliance, or information relating to the national defense, shall be punished by death or by imprisonment for any term of years or for life, except that the sentence of death shall not be imposed unless the jury or, if there is no jury, the court, further finds that the offense resulted in the identification by a foreign power (as defined in section 101(a) of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978) of an individual acting as an agent of the United States and consequently in the death of that individual, or directly concerned nuclear weaponry, military spacecraft or satellites, early warning systems, or other means of defense or retaliation against large-scale attack; war plans; communications intelligence or cryptographic information; or any other major weapons system or major element of defense strategy.
First thing I thought when I read this headline was: Be a geek.
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Reality check: the portion of the process these emails cover are not going to make or break a deal.

What would be more useful is detail on "During the fundraising process, I met a ton of investors both through soft introductions, straight out stalking and also through AngelList."

Once you have someones attention, the rest is down to whether they like you and the idea, no amount of email templates will solve that.

So come on TK, give us some detail on how you got in front of those investors in the first place ;)