Snarky Answers to Stupid Job Interview Questions; Linus Torvalds: Any CLA Is Fundamentally Broken

Federal Agents Interrogate Google Glass Wearer at Theater   |  LogMeIn Abruptly Pulls Free Access To view a web version of this message, click here Send this message to a friend Snarky Answers to Stupid Job Interview Questions Federal Agents Interrogate Google Glass Wearer at Theater LogMeIn Abruptly Pulls Free Access Linus Torvalds: Any CLA Is Fundamentally Broken What New Technologies Should You Learn in 2014 to Be Employable? Hot Comment: "Forget the Target breach, how about the Boston Marathon bombing? That was..." From the Vault: Woz Cites 'Scary' Prius Acceleration Software Problem Watch It: Low-Cost Eye Trackers for the Masses?  Poll Booth: Best skywatching equipment at my disposal Sponsored Resource: Three Imperatives for Advancing Product and Systems Snarky Answers to Stupid Job Interview Questions Ever been asked a question in a job interview that's just so abysmally stupid, you were tempted to give in to the snarkside? Take a look at suggested interview-ending answers to 16 of the stupidest questions candidates actually got asked in interviews at tech companies in 2013. Sound Off>> Federal Agents Interrogate Google Glass Wearer at Theater A Google Glass user was removed from a theater and interrogated under the suspicion that he may have been recording the film he was watching. The matter could have been cleared up in minutes by plugging Glass into a computer to review the contents, but the agents insisted on questioning the user for hours. Sound Off>> LogMeIn Abruptly Pulls Free Access Remote desktop service LogMeIn sent an email to its users Tuesday notifying them that "LogMeIn Free" will be discontinued that day and that the company's services will be limited to paid subscribers. This prompted k280 to ask: "What alternative tools are available for free, and how do they compare to LogMeIn?" Sound Off>> Linus Torvalds: Any CLA Is Fundamentally Broken The controversy over Canonical's Contributor License Agreement (CLA) has once again surfaced. While Matthew Garrett raises valid points about the flaws in Canonical's CLAs, Linus Torvalds says, "To be fair, people just like hating on Canonical. The FSF and Apache Foundation CLA's are pretty much equally broken." Sound Off>> What New Technologies Should You Learn in 2014 to Be Employable? An anonymous reader, who has been a software engineer for the past 15 years developing in C for embedded systems, asked Slashdotters, "What would be the smallest set of 'new technologies' one should know to be employable in web/mobile these days?" Sound Off>> Re: Well, at least they are honest "Forget the Target breach, how about the Boston Marathon bombing? That was exactly the kind of attack this program is being sold as preventing. And it didn't. Yet we still have it and it still hurts us." --by O('_')O_Bush Read More>>   Woz Cites 'Scary' Prius Acceleration Software Problem Four years ago, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak spoke about a "very scary" problem with his new Toyota Prius where "the accelerator goes wild, but only under certain conditions of cruise control." He said he tried for three months to get through to someone at Toyota and the NHTSA, but couldn't get anyone to explore the alleged software-related acceleration problem. Read More>>  Low-Cost Eye Trackers for the Masses? Eye tracking technology has been around for years, but it's been extremely expensive. But now, a Danish company is making it available for the consumer market for the first time. The Eye Tribe just started shipping its $99 software development kit. Timothy Lord caught up with CEO Sune Johansen at CES to talk about the software and get some demos. Watch the Video>>   Best skywatching equipment at my disposal: One or more eyes -- that's all I have a handheld monocular or binoculars My own telescope, convenient to carry My own telescope, inconvenient to carry My friends' much better equipment Easy/regular access to institutional scope I run the planetarium Cast Your Vote>>     Three Imperatives for Advancing Product and Systems Organizations developing products and systems in industries such as automotive, aerospace and defense, medical devices and consumer electronics are undergoing a transformation driven by the rapid growth in functionality delivered by software and electronics. This paper outlines an approach for using this shift to gain a competitive advantage. Learn More>> Follow Slashdot on Twitter and Facebook. To unsubscribe, click here or send an email to: unsubscribe-213087@elabs10.com To ensure delivery of this newsletter to your inbox and to enable images, please add slashdot@newsletters.slashdot.org to your e-mail address book or safe senders list. Slashdot | 594 Howard Street, Suite 300 | San Francisco, CA 94105 To view our Privacy Policy click here.