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Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2011 15:41:42 -0500
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On 2/8/2011 3:27 PM, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> The positions were for automation, control and embedded applications. The
> guys would read sensors, write actuators, program ECU etc. They weren't
> hired for designing web-sites and in their resumes they wrote "embedded
> programming experience." BTW, they didn't lie! Watch up, it is well
> possible that some devices around you were programmed by such guys!

Oh, dear :-) Well, perhaps I will draw some comfort by believing
that those devices are now themselves running Linux kernels and
reporting their measurements via high-level messages!

See <http://www.boingboing.net/2011/01/14/paranoia-and-deletio.html>
along those lines.