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Amen. My fiance is a social worker and has been working with homeless for the past 5 years.

I'd expect that if a trojan were to be inserted that it will probably want access to all interfaces. I would take extra care at your hardrive interface, USB interface and Ethernet interface. I'd look for JTAG connectors on the boards to see if direct flashing is plausible. I'd also look for damage done from removing them.

Small point be social sourcing could generate a false positive unless you can verify said individuals interests.

Of course removing anything placed by warrant is possibly illegal irregardless of you position on it. {this isn't legal advice}

I'd also say this would take a significant amount of effort to validate and you're likely to find quasi poor information.

Not sure this plausible. You'd need clarity to all the sourced parts and entire supply chain and logistical chain. Then complete oversight over the assembly and logistics. I'm guessing that backdoors are really inserted at the firmware level (in most cases) and therefore you'd need the ability to flash new firmware with valid signatures and checksums straight from the manufacturer but you'd probably want an independent audit of said firmware.

This will require you to weigh the risks. While I like the approach, you'll have to trust your gut. You're gut is going to have to say that MGMT will believe the cost of replacing Jerry < the cost of replacing you irregardless of most personal relationships. Especially if the loss of Jerry could negatively impact revenue more then the loss of you as an employee. There's also a moral factor if you're gone and above is cold hearted logic.

Normally I'm for this, but this seems to be a valid discussion for HN.

I rarely upvote, but I did this time.

I use to work in situations where we had to account for failures. We had lab equipment that would just run all that time, and with terrible wiring and we were horrible to it too. We left covers off, piled stuff on top of it and just Frankenstein the hell out of all of it. I even managed to flash a new OS/App at the same time of a power failure but it still lived....

Failures were more prominent in memory...but they did happen. We also sent equipment through environmental testing that would force failures. I don't recall of hearing of any CPU failures. Although most of our equipment was DSP & FPGA based but there were some tiny 'lil CPU's there.

1. Get a lawyer. 2. Get a lawyer. 3. I'm not a lawyer. 4. Always have a bargaining chip

Unless you have something in place, it's probably not worth much a legal action. Maybe some threatening phone calls, and letters from a lawyer. If they are BIG they will attempt to drive you to the ground.

Watch the video posted from Mule Design and take this as a hard lesson learned.

It's maddening, maddening I tell you.

I consistently find myself in similar situations. I've found some sites drop characters after a certain limit. Some sites only allowing numbers and letters.

It's truly maddening that these people are just awful. I wish there were a way to get them to change their rules.

My thoughts, exactly.

I'd spread them out, over a few locations but one is a personal and the other is small one for a couple sites that we host.

From inside the console: NYC1 scheduling delay. Mon Nov 25 02:05:00 2013

We are experiencing a power outage at NYC1 and have engaged Equinix to investigate. Mon Nov 25 02:27:11 2013

We have engaged our engineering teams to investigate temporarily scheduling delays. Mon Nov 25 02:07:32 2013

Hmm not sure if it's related but I can't get on stackoverflow either at the moment. It might be a NYC networking issue? Aren't they located there?

I didn't realize that they had one. I would've looked there but I'm actually on vacation, so I'm not really wanting to `dive in` at the moment.

I'm not sure.. that wasn't even there when I looked. We had an alarm go off for our sites that are hosted there.

Standard Big 4 Consulting implementation. It provides value for a few years until employee realize that it's a lot easier to:

1. Get a job elsewhere 2. Hide in mediocrity because the effort to achieve a high ranking is greater than the reward by a lot.

In my personal experience with force ranking systems, is that it also drives politics within the organization. As an example:

I once was skipped a promotion because when we went to demo a unit the shipping department did a poor job packing the prototype equipment that I had just spent an entire summer building. Due to the packing job, a single RS-232 pin because slightly unseated causing intermittent behaviors for one of many features. It was still the most successful demo the company had ever given. So success we received a request for pricing the Military 24 hours later, which is unheard of. Despite this the Chief Engineer blasted me for the failure, and our inability to find the issue on site (mind you he was there too). When I brought this up at my review I was indirectly told by my boss that he didn't agree with my rating/rank but it was over his head. After that, I practiced both Items 1 & 2 but discovered that my new company also followed this practice. So it was a rinse and repeat to make sure force ranking is not within my new companies.

I've been wanting to give Flask a trial. This just wraps this up in goodness that I'd also like to try :-)

Thanks for posting.

Fully agree.... someone was being a total troll on there. w0mp.

If you're going to run Arch then you should really stick with being comfortable with the CLI. There's no telling when something will break the upstream GUI packages, or something wont load on boot and you're stuck in single user mode.

Why wouldn't you use the package manager that your distro comes with?

I think I used MusicBrainz before. It worked pretty well but I had a bunch of one off MP3's that were a single band/song that it just botched. So now when I go through I find artists that I have no clue who they are, and I listen to the song and realize it's wrong.

Have you run this on Debian? I see they offer an ubuntu package, and a few RPM packages.

On slightly related topic, has anyone found some good Linux based tools to clean up your MP3 Library metadata?

Debian / Unstable.

I've had some thoughts at looking into FreeBSD but that's not Linux.

I'm also with you. I rarely have sound on, actually at the moment there seems to be a bug with my sound. I don't plan to investigate it. I strongly dislike video content.

I've worked with contractors that own have built web applications for the government.[1] Sadly this par for the course with respect to the scalability and usability of these sites. These teams are typically only concerned about following documentation processes and meeting their security standards. I can't cite anything to prove this, but I'm really not going the route of slander, just speaking from personal experience.

[1]http://reporting.sunlightfoundation.com/2013/aca-contractors...

The main site is a static file generation stuff build by Development Seed. The marketplace was mostly likely built on cruft enterprise software built by government consulting firms.

Thanks for the tip...seriously I really appreciate it. I've been sitting in some IRC rooms on Freenode but I've been quiet.

Hey thanks for responding. I'll take a look at your company.

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Ugh this just makes me sad. I want to move to Portland next summer, and I've been watching for jobs in Portland. Right now I don't see any jobs but I keep seeing more, and more jobs in DC. I hate DC, I want out!

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I've been really considering a 2nd BS in CS at times, but just can't seem to get myself to do it. I have BS in engineering, but not CS. I get fustrated because of what would be required for a MS in it, and some schools the time for a 2nd BS is just out of control for myself.

I also see myself being in more management of programmers at sometime. It's pretty rare for me to trivialization a solution process. I've done it, but so has everyone. Making mistakes is the learning process.