Microsoft Security Makes "Worst Jobs" List 177
Stony Stevenson asks, rhetorically, "What do whale-feces researchers, hazmat divers, and employees of Microsoft's Security Response Center have in common? They all made Popular Science magazine's 2007 list of the absolute worst jobs in science." Quoting: "The MSRC ranked near the middle as the sixth-worst job in this year's list.. 'We did rate the Microsoft security researcher as less-bad than the people who prepare the carcasses for dissection in biology laboratories,' Moyer said. Moyer didn't have to think long when asked whether he'd rather have the number 10-ranked whale research job. 'Whale feces or working at Microsoft? I would probably be the whale feces researcher,' he said. 'Salt air and whale flatulence; what could go wrong?'" Here's the Popular Mechanics list all on one page.
I call whaleshit (Score:5, Informative)
For giggles, here's the list:
Popular Science and Popular Mechanics (Score:3, Informative)
Re:They don't sound so bad... (Score:2, Informative)
Even $120,000 might not be worth it. I can't imagine how difficult it would be to use a bedpan in a bed sloped 6 degrees toward my head, let alone while being observed by NASA engineers.
Re:Time to rethink OS's (Score:5, Informative)
It also has an option to replace TaskManager, which is very handy...
Re:Time to rethink OS's (Score:5, Informative)
man lsof
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Re:Time to rethink OS's (Score:2, Informative)
Nice to see Microsoft still support the BSOD screensaver [microsoft.com] although they don't let you have the password recovery utilities any more.
Unlocker (Score:3, Informative)
I really like Unlocker [ccollomb.free.fr]. A little freeware explorer extension that shows you what processes have locked a file, and lets you choose what to do about it.