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I have managed to keep programming though I'm a member of a sales group for a complex piece of software but our company allows for "technical" positions even under the sales umbrella.

I basically got no responses when I was looking for a programming job several years ago - can't hide the fact that I graduated college in 1981.

Programming is what I like to do and I think I'm pretty good at it after more than 40 years of practice but I also want to get paid, so no one wants to look at me, especially since all organizations I've seen are clueless about measuring ability, and are typically unaware that there is a tremendous range of abilities among people who can churn out a piece of working code.

I was originally hired into a QA area, so I've seen a lot of really bad code that is in production and working with some of the people writing code makes me wonder how they got hired in the first place.

The way things work currently, valuing youth over experience, leaves me unsurprised whenever I learn of gross problems with code, like the time Microsoft's Zune failed to account for the leap year in 2008: https://www.computerworld.com/... .

Not that I'm bitter or anything.

See subject: This works (or could) via that mechanism - it's how they "hid" the shitty snooper patches KB2952664/2976978/2977759/3170735 https://www.computerworld.com/article/3091875/microsoft-windows/four-new-windows-patches-to-avoid-kb-2952664-2976978-2977759-and-windows-journal-3170735.html/ via using "Trusted Installer" as its owner for folders for it under %WinDir% - there were 100's of megabytes of content there even when you uninstalled it - how I got it out? I changed the folder owner to myself & burned it.

* IN OTHER WORDS YOU CAN DO THE SAME PRETTY MUCH & I'D WAGER THIS IS HOW THEY ARE DOING IT @ MS FOR WIN10.

APK

P.S.=> My guess is that to access said folders they built an interface for it, much like is done for UAC, to ALLOW you access as a sufficiently priveleged user... apk

Doesn't even mention Apple??

200 MW of solar in Reno, 170 MW of solar in China, etc..

https://www.computerworld.com/...

I've already said that an OS which requires an AV in order to guard apps/data is not the OS you should be running in the first place.

Also, I am indeed a raving idiot because I don't have an AV installed and for my 25+ years of computer usage I've never been infected or lost my credentials (aside from companies leaking them, e.g. Adobe). That couldn't be attributed to sheer luck, right? Windows is inherently insecure and an AV gives you a false sense of security as indicated by literally tens of millions of examples when people have got infected while having a fully updated AV installed and running.

I asked you a direct question: How does one offer an antivirus solution that does not involve a kernel mode driver? And you failed to respond. Thanks for playing!

I've already said that an OS which requires an AV in order to guard apps/data is not the OS you should be running in the first place.

Also, I am indeed a raving idiot because I don't have an AV installed and for my 25+ years of computer usage I've never been infected or lost my credentials (aside from companies leaking them, e.g. Adobe). That couldn't be attributed to sheer luck, right? Windows is inherently insecure and an AV gives you a false sense of security as indicated by literally tens of millions of examples when people have got infected while having a fully updated AV installed and running.

Good thing Symantec is secure and has no horrible remote exploits that give hackers top-level access to the system.

Just say no to Symantec, it can only make your system worse (they had a solid C compiler back in the 90s though).

Exactly. Both Russia and China have demanded -- and gotten -- source code reviews of code from Microsoft, Cisco, IBM, and SAP. This is, and has been, standard practice for over a decade.

This isn't news, it is sensationalist headline clickbait.

https://venturebeat.com/2017/06/23/tech-firms-including-cisco-ibm-and-sap-allow-russian-authorities-to-review-product-source-code/ (2017)

http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-opens-source-code-to-russian-secret-service/ (2010)

https://www.computerworld.com/article/2581562/security0/china-next-to-get-access-to-microsoft-source-code.html (2003)

Say what?

https://www.computerworld.com/...

https://www.computerworld.com/...

That's not to defend XP as a choice, but let's not be misleading, here.

Say what?

https://www.computerworld.com/...

https://www.computerworld.com/...

That's not to defend XP as a choice, but let's not be misleading, here.

Why does any sort of physical contact have to be part of the equation? Wireless charging has been a thing for several years at this point.

There have been technologies which charge bluetooth devices wirelessly from several feet away demonstrated at CES in 2015.

There are even people working on AA batteries which charge wirelessly.

Even Apple is on the wireless charging bandwagon, including their AirPods which charge wirelessly.

SSN's were intended to be unique to a person, but they aren't. A duplicate can occurs due to error. Adding DOB will certainly reduce the likelihood but it can't eliminate it.

Oh, it doesn't work the other way round either - some people have been assigned more than one.

https://www.computerworld.com/...

https://www.aol.com/2010/08/12...

Computerworld had the story: https://www.computerworld.com/...

How much longer until you can do CAD on a device the size of a phone. 2 years, 5 years, 10?

Never, until the non-volatile memory manages to come up with something that combines endurance with density with DDR access latencies, all at a commodity price point.

Some of these technologies are presently planning to embed a power-hungry FPGA into the NVRAM module to handle bit-error correction. The carbon nanotubes looks great, but at 32 MB per chip, you're not packing 16 GB into anything smaller than the original Motorola brick phone, with a sticker price to rival Iridium.

While the ARM processor may be a killer application, background DRAM refresh on 16 GB of working memory remains an application killer, for any mobile device.

Due to physics, charge storage cells are unlikely to ever improve from the present level (brought to you by the sexy Kate MOS insulation deficit).

NRAM set to spark a 'holy war' among memory technologies — 12 January 2017

The best NAND flash, with error correction code, can withstand about 100,000 erase-write cycles. According to Nantero, NRAM can withstand 10^12 write cycles and 10^15 read cycles — an almost infinite number.

Next stop, coming to a decade near you: volume arrays in volume production with volume endurance.

It's coming!
OSes don't really pay the bills anymore. Windows specifically is a small portion of Microsoft's revenue, (less than 10%) that Microsoft has less and less of a reason to keep working on it.

It is however an excellent unique identifier.

Wrong. https://www.computerworld.com/...

I work in the Healthcare field

Cleaning floors, I hope.

Not that it's an excuse, but in what universe is it OK to have internet-connected data repositories that don't have a password? When is that EVER a good idea? Why can you even create a bucket without some kind of authorization on it? That's just kinda stupid.

And yea, TigerSwan: You were freaking responsible for the data. You might not directly employ the guy who screwed up, but your contractors are YOUR problem. The fact that you obviously DIDN'T control your contractors properly indicates that you probably aren't the right guys for the job.

This has been done before and one of 4 times my data has been hacked. https://www.computerworld.com/...

like I have been working towards?
http://web.archive.org/web/201...
"I feel open source tools for collaborative structured arguments, multiple perspective analysis, agent-based simulation, and so on, used together for making sense of what is going on in the world, are important to our democracy, security, and prosperity. Imagine if, instead of blog posts and comments on topics, we had searchable structured arguments about simulations and their results all with assumptions defined from different perspectives, where one could see at a glance how different subsets of the community felt about the progress or completeness of different arguments or action plans (somewhat like a debate flow diagram), where even a year of two later one could go back to an existing debate and expand on it with new ideas. As good as, say, Slashdot is, such a comprehensive open source sensemaking system would be to Slashdot as Slashdot is to a static webpage. It might help prevent so much rehashing the same old arguments because one could easily find and build on previous ones. ..."

My latest efforts along that line: https://github.com/pdfernhout/...

And I put together ideas here like using IBIS:
https://github.com/pdfernhout/...

Of course, there seems to be so much age discrimination at Google (including against people who can't easily relocate), not much point in me applying there in my 50s:
https://www.usatoday.com/story...
http://www.computerworld.com/a...

Of course, older software developers with families and community roots might help provide a moral conscience to the organization as well as provide examples to others about work/life balance -- which might be bad for Google's short-term bottom line...

Although such older people (of all genders) also might have helped Google think through better ways to do hiring long ago.

Also, I've made some previous comments I made about Google in 2008 that might be problematical in getting me hired there: :-)
http://www.pdfernhout.net/a-ra...
"So what is Google Headquarters in Mountain View, California but a little temporary space habitat bubble of happiness for regular employees, but floating on a sea of relative misery for everyone else planetwide who supports it? Can't we as a society or Google/Virgle as an aspiration do better that that? And even within that bubble are emerging issues. How long can a company expect to run on twenty-somethings without kids?
Google-ites and other financially obese people IMHO need to take a good look at the junk food capitalist propaganda they are eating and serving up to others, as in saying (even in jest): http://www.google.com/virgle/o... "we should profit from others' use of our innovations, and we should buy or lease others' intellectual property whenever it advances our own goals" -- even while running one of the biggest post-scarcity enterprises on Earth based on free-as-in-freedom software. :-(
Until then, it is up to us other "semi-evil ... quasi-evil ... not evil enough" hobbyists with smaller budgets to save the Asteroids and the Planets (including Earth) http://www.openvirgle.net/
from financially obese people and their unexamined

I'm just entirely shocked that Microsoft's stock price hasn't cratered into the pit it deserves. Don't think that the current wave isn't the last or best; ransomware will be iteratively released until bitcoin shoots past $10,000/coin.

Because it's not really hurting Microsoft's pocket. There isn't really a legitimate alternative for windows. The general public seemed baffled by Linux (and Linux isn't getting the marketing spent to promote it). Apple is a walled garden that nobody wants.

Many business apps only run on windows. Microsoft's customers aren't going anywhere.

At least for the Apple case, you are incorrect:

In general:

http://www.vertoanalytics.com/... ...and, more specifically...

"IBM began replacing PCs with Macs in early 2015, when it began giving employees the choice to upgrade to a Mac when their company kit needed upgrading. The data speaks for itself, at IBM an astonishing 73 percent of employees will choose a Mac when they get the chance to choose for themselves"

http://www.computerworld.com/a...

Continuing to maintain an entire operating system platform to support software that was written before this year's college grads were even born is just plain insane. That's way too much effort for what should be almost zero benefit.

Ever heard of MVS, VM, VMS, or UNIX? All of them (and many others) were developed 40+ years ago and still support software written 4 decades ago today - and are running in many, many commercial environments on current hardware.

"The European Commission's decision will come after a seven-year investigation into the world's most popular internet search engine was triggered by scores of complaints from both U.S. and European rivals." Most of who are fronting for the Microsoft organization. You don't have to look far to find the Micrsoft connection:

CompTIA

Computing Technology Industry Association

Initiative for a Competitive Online Marketplace (ICOMP)

Association for Competitive Technology (ACT)

FairSearch

TradeComet

'Center for the Moral Defense of Capitalism' .. that's a real organization .. spends most of the time defending MICROS~1 :)

google road to evil begins
http://techland.time.com/2012/...
http://www.infoworld.com/artic...

google secretly embraces evil
http://time.com/4060575/alphab...

google realizes full power of the dark side
http://www.npr.org/sections/th...
http://www.wired.co.uk/article...
http://www.computerworld.com/a...

RIP google privacy,ethics,trust
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

You do know that Al Gore heavily retrofitted his house and sources green energy for it.

http://www.factcheck.org/2009/...

Or that Bill Nye backed a solar panel startup?

http://www.computerworld.com/a...

The only confirmed hacking attempts were performed by DHS against Indiana's and Idaho's election systems.

Indiana joins Idaho in claiming DHS tried to hack their election systems

It's not legal either place for very good reasons because it isn't safe and cannot be made safe.

Then how do you rationalize why it is even legal to purchase such hardware? There are undoubtedly more firearms than 500+hp cars in America. Firearms are regulated extensively regulated for public safety. High-powered street cars are not. If they are such a public safety risk as you assert, why is this the case?

Spend 20 seconds on google if you need actual examples.

I already supplied multi-year traffic accident data for Japan and the US. That's a far larger data set than looking at individual examples on Google.

Considering that automation/robots/AI are making human labor obsolete...

Umm, what kind of bullshit are you talking about now? This has nothing to do with the topic at hand nor is it actually true.

I'm not sure if you are trolling or just plain ignorant, but I'm feeling generous enough to contribute to your enlightenment.
Japanese insurance firm replaces 34 staff with AI: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-...
IBM's Watson edits an entire magazine on its own: https://futurism.com/will-ibms...
Automation arrives at restaurants: http://www.computerworld.com/a...
"The result of their agitation will be more jobs for machines and fewer for the least skilled workers," it wrote.
Foxconn replaces 60,000 factory workers with robots: http://www.bbc.com/news/techno...
Chinese factory replaces 90% of humans with robots, production soars: http://www.techrepublic.com/ar...

Now, here's why all of that is relevant. What are we supposed to do with potentially billions of low-skill or even medium-skill human beings whose labor is no longer a cost-effective means of production? They will still consume resources and produce pollution, just by existing. Your posts indicate that protecting the environment is a priority for you, yet you have a myopic focus on high-powered passenger vehicles while ignoring the elephant in the room of unchecked global population growth. Hence why I countered that cutting the population in half would leave us still able to sustain (if not improve) our First-World living standards across the board, AND do the environment a big favor. We can have 800HP cars and pristine national parks if we just had 4 billion fewer people, who we won't need to manufacture said 800HP cars in the near-future anyway, so no loss there......Are you finally picking up what I'm putting down now?

Holy off topic batman. I think we are done here.

Well, I've laid out my thoughts in a clear manner with numerous references, and you've only contributed vapid one-liners, so I have no qualms about accepting your concession in this debate.

Sure, this has some discussion of when Business/Enterprise customers can expect to see updates, but doesn't relate the "forced" aspect. Note that there is no statement that they can be avoided. There's wishy-washy wording in there. This, while older, has the verbiage I remember being finalized last year. Another story implying there's no stopping the upgrades, but, like you, I cannot find the original smoking gun that made me walk away from Win10 as a viable OS. That was over 2 years ago, and digging through thousands of google stories on "forced enterprise windows 10 upgrades" isn't what I am doing today.

Sure, this has some discussion of when Business/Enterprise customers can expect to see updates, but doesn't relate the "forced" aspect. Note that there is no statement that they can be avoided. There's wishy-washy wording in there. This, while older, has the verbiage I remember being finalized last year. Another story implying there's no stopping the upgrades, but, like you, I cannot find the original smoking gun that made me walk away from Win10 as a viable OS. That was over 2 years ago, and digging through thousands of google stories on "forced enterprise windows 10 upgrades" isn't what I am doing today.

Yeah, don't be a moron.
Your source is poor because they are pandering to those who are hiring maggot labor.

H1B has a serious problem with diversity With H-1B visa, diversity doesn’t apply - In computer occupations, India dominates H-1B visa use. .

Contracts expire and are renegotiated.

Sure. I'm sure Comcast has had long and protracted discussions with Level 3 during those contract renegotiations. Heck, one time, the internet got cut in half for 3 days over these negotiations.

Some ISPs are simply peers, but others are decidedly "downstream" from others and receive a lot more traffic from others, than they push out.

OK, so having signed the contract now they those "downstream" ISPs are free to ignore it? Be sure to use terms like "forced to sign a contract they didn't understand" or "signed a contract they couldn't afford" I hear that gains extra sympathy points from conservatives.

why am I paying the same per month as the folks who

Because you signed up for the same package they did and signed a contract that said you would. You can ask the cable company if they offer a granny package for someone who just wants to check their email, and if they don't offer you one, you could switch to an ISP (likely wireless) that does. I personally use Ting for my mobile wireless, mostly since I basically use mobile wireless for navigation and nothing else. Total bill runs around $15/mo depending on whether someone texts me or not.

But now I struggle to understand, why it was perfectly fine with the likes of you, that some TV-channels are free

Because they're ad supported?

some cable-channels are "free" (bundled with subscription)

So, not free.

and yet others charge extra?

Do you even know what the cable model is? The cable companies pay for the right to retransmit all of these channels. Some of them, like broadcast TV, are cheap. Others like HBO are very expensive, so the cable company bills the customer that wants HBO. Bringing the cable model to the internet would mean that Google could charge Comcast $x/subscriber for Comcast to allow their subscribers to access Google's content, then the cable company would pass those charges along to the user, likely using the same kind of packages. Get the Amazon package for $5/mo for access to Amazon -- and all of the tens of thousands of websites hosted on EC2, just like how the HSN channel gets bundled with whatever other channels owned by the same company.

BTW, that option also sounds like bullshit to me, because as much as it's great having 450 channels with nothing on, I can probably assemble a list of several hundred websites I use on a monthly basis, all of which would have to be somehow packaged, and someone else will need an entirely different package because they have to go to different websites to pay their bills.

Businesses should not switch to biometric passwords. They could use biometry for convenience paired with password for security, but biometry isn't enough for one main reason: if someone figures a way of replicating even a single biometric identification, the whole system is defeated.
It's a difference between replacing a single user password versus possibly having to recall and replace all hardware, and the entire system behind it.

You can easily replace passwords. Biometrics cannot be replaced.
It uniquely identifies people and is uniquely tied to each one, which also creates a problem regarding privacy.
It's always a bad idea to use something that is uniquely identifiable as a password, because you end up running in scenarios where anonymity becomes impossible.

And in the end, the problem with security systems is that they are prone to failure due to a bunch of different factors.
Smartphone fingerprint readers were easily defeated just recently because they were implemented to work faster.
http://www.computerworld.com/a...
Technology catches on. We'll always be one step from a scanner with high enough resolution and a printer of some sort with high enough definition and usage of the right materials.

You know what people said about fingerprint readers in the past? That it would be close to impossible to replicate because of how complex our fingerprints are. That argument being made by Harvard Business Review in the end of the quote is just the same. We can't assume how hard it's gonna be to replicate even if you are tying a bunch of biometrics together because it hasn't been out yet, nor there's any incentive for people to break it just yet. If someone haphazardly implements it through a wide range of businesses, then all bets are off.

Also, companies behind such systems will always fail to recognize the problem because recalling and replacing devices will always be impossibly expensive, and in several instances we're basically relying on security through obscurity.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/e...

https://hackaday.com/2015/11/1...

Now, with things as they stand, imagine this scenario: as we all know, several companies nowadays are basically building entire dossiers about each and every costumer with all sorts of information about them to sell for advertisers and whatnot. Imagine if biometrics got into that, and then innevitably one of those companies gets hacked or leaks their entire databases. Instead of people scrambling to reset and change their passwords, we'd get people who could do nothing about it, biometrics in the wild, just waiting for someone to come up with a way to use/replicate them. This happens to enough businesses and enough databases, biometric data becomes something as easy to find out as an address or name.

Installs have been much slower than anticipated and they had to change forecasts already, that's the news.

http://www.computerworld.com/a...

How quick people are to forget and forgive these days... remember this?
https://news.vice.com/article/...
https://www.digitaltrends.com/...
https://www.theverge.com/2016/...
http://www.computerworld.com/a...

Yeah. Not a single review or article about this new Blackberry phone ever mentioned the case. This is why we privacy keeps eroding and why security practices went down the gutter. Stop promoting the company.

You are demanding the worst form of environmental theater. Let's say it would cost Apple $5 to make their phone more recyclable. For $5 they could buy carbon credits to eliminate 800 kg of CO2. Yet you are whining about them not spending the same amount to recycle the 2 ounces of plastic in an iPhone.

If Apple spent money on environmentalism, spending that money money on "recycling iPhones" would be about the least effective possible way to do it.

So why don't they spend it on things that make more sense? They do.

The US Defense Department used to fund OpenBSD, until Theo de Raadt criticized the war in Iraq.

http://www.computerworld.com/article/2580728/security0/darpa-pulls-funding-for-openbsd--leader-says.html

Considering this is a broadcom problem, I don't see what difference it makes in this regard.

However in overall security, I somewhat doubt it:

http://www.computerworld.com/a...

Keep in mind, Windows had a super tiny mobile market share even at the time, and still manages to be responsible for 80% of malware on mobile networks.

Bogus clickbait article that is plain wrong. Its counting *Windows PC's* that are connected via mobile data as mobile phones, given the dominance of them in the desktop market and that most virus are targeted at desktop of course they dominate stats.

Given the tiny % of Windows Mobile phones it is obviously quite ridiculous to claim they account for 80% of malware. I'm not aware of any real windows mobile malware.

The vast majority of mobile malware is Android, because of its market dominance, pathetic security model and total lack of security updates.

Considering this is a broadcom problem, I don't see what difference it makes in this regard.

However in overall security, I somewhat doubt it:

http://www.computerworld.com/a...

Keep in mind, Windows had a super tiny mobile market share even at the time, and still manages to be responsible for 80% of malware on mobile networks. And yes, windows phone isn't immune, nor are Microsoft's lofty promises about how awesomely secure Edge is:

http://www.tomshardware.com/ne...

China builds worldâ(TM)s fastest supercomputer without U.S. chips
Chinaâ(TM)s New Supercomputer Puts the US Even Further Behind

The next one is going to be 10 times as fast:
Tianhe-3 will be 10 times faster than the current fastest supercomputer in the world, the Sunway TaihuLight

It will happen as Windows becomes less and less of Microsoft's revenue. There are signs all over the place.

Zero, except here, here and here.

But if you don't want to believe that something isn't true, dismissing it as "fake news" is so much easier than doing five minutes of research with a web browser.

Why?

* $120K in Silicon Valley for a single person means either soul-destroying commutes or living like a student with three random housemates
https://news.slashdot.org/stor...

In Google's defense, when people try to build relatively affordable housing around SV, towns tend to permit more office space but will not allow more housing -- even as that is starting to change (maybe too little too late though?):
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/1...

Google private buses do make the commutes easier though -- at a social cost:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

* But even if there was cheaper housing, for singles, SV still has a dating problem other than the year 2038:
https://slashdot.org/story/17/...

* Google no longer has quite the reputation it had now that "don't be evil" is just a memory -- especially as Google has become thought of as a key player in the surveillance/malware state (e.g. with Android).

The fundamental problem here is that the software and services the world desperately needs to be resilient, healthy, and free are not the centralized software and services that will make a company like Google the most money (or maybe that much money at all -- e.g. Gnu/etc/Linux/BSD).

* Google's stock is unlikely to appreciate as significantly as in the past given competition, changing digital landscapes, (re)branding issues, falling computer and networking costs makign personal search engines more viable, federated computing and an emerging social semantic desktop, and more

* Google insists everyone work on-site (ironically, for a company about computer mediated experiences) -- and most of the sites are in expensive places to live (and most US jobs are not at the cheaper cost-of-living sites) -- all of which reduces cognitive diversity at Google from a lack of rural perspectives

* Google's 20% time is now 120% time (one big perk gone)
https://tech.slashdot.org/stor...

Also, Google has not figured out how to try new products without then abandoning ones that are not growing and thus alienating both employees and customers (e.g. Google Reader)

* Google tends to screen out qualified employees by a biased hiring process that, reading between the lines, Laszlo Bock, senior vice president of people operations at Google, indirectly admits has failed -- meaning that the current population of Googlers may not be a diverse enjoyable group of people to work with -- while also indirectly implying a very high fine-grained surveillance of all employee activities:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06...

* Googlers tend to have little work-life balance, working long hours (made worse by being on-site), meaning Google can't readily attract older workers who have families or participate in community obligations or take vacations
https://www.glassdoor.com/Revi...
"Cons: Absolutely no work life balance. Deteriorating health conditions thereafter."

* But even if Google could boast work-life balance to be of interest to older workers, Google, like most SV companies practices rampant age discrimination anyway

For example:
http://www.computerworld.com/a...

Not that the last is specific to only G

640K should be enough for anyone: http://www.computerworld.com/a... Now (please) get off my lawn.

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"New Mac malware pinned on same Russian group blamed for election hacks"
https://arstechnica.com/securi...
"spoke Russian" and the classic "worked mostly during Russian business hours" and finally
"pursued targets located in Ukraine, Spain, Russia, Romania, the US, and Canada"
Language, working hours over a few time zones and a list of nations?

Whats in "Russian cyberspies blamed for U.S. election hacks are now targeting Macs"
http://www.computerworld.com/a...
"has been operating for almost a decade." So the private security sector globally knows something about the methods... yet bulk data can still be moved undetected in the wild using the tools understood by private sector experts...
"Security researchers believe that the group is likely tied to the Russian Military Intelligence Service."
Most nations security services would not trust results from tools that have been discovered and are been talked about or tracked by other nations govs and private sector security experts.
Such methods get discovered while in use, the data flow out can be tampered with. Staying in any network with old tools just invites surveillance.
Very few nations with any skills would use old tools that can be detected while in use.

You have data for "cheaper" but if worker A works 40 hours for $140k and worker B works 80 hours a week for $140k, worker B is making a significantly lower than average hourly wage.

All of which is hypothetical based only on your ideas. I assert this is not reality.

Wrong. I have direct experience in the field and this is a systemic issue in this field. Do you work in this field? In fact, there is evidence:

http://www.computerworld.com/a...
http://www.computerworld.com/a...

Do your own research jack-ass if you want to know what reality is composed of. Or live in your little liberal fantasy world. I don't really care. You people are up to your eyeballs in debt and couldn't get yourself off of the tax teat and take care of yourself if your life depended on it. You're weak. Prove that wrong. That's what I thought.

You snowflakes are all about being offended by everyone but then you turn and bully everyone else with your shit.

You have data for "cheaper" but if worker A works 40 hours for $140k and worker B works 80 hours a week for $140k, worker B is making a significantly lower than average hourly wage.

All of which is hypothetical based only on your ideas. I assert this is not reality.

Wrong. I have direct experience in the field and this is a systemic issue in this field. Do you work in this field? In fact, there is evidence:

http://www.computerworld.com/a...
http://www.computerworld.com/a...

Do your own research jack-ass if you want to know what reality is composed of. Or live in your little liberal fantasy world. I don't really care. You people are up to your eyeballs in debt and couldn't get yourself off of the tax teat and take care of yourself if your life depended on it. You're weak. Prove that wrong. That's what I thought.

You snowflakes are all about being offended by everyone but then you turn and bully everyone else with your shit.

Here's 3 more cases that I thought of, off the top of my head. There's more with a simple Google search:
UCSF https://news.slashdot.org/stor...
Toys-R-Us https://www.numbersusa.com/new...
Southern California Edison http://www.computerworld.com/a...

ComputerWorld has taken up the cause of highlighting all the H1B abuses out there, like the concept of training foreign replacements. They list all company names (e.g. Disney, Abbott Labs, Southern California Electric, University of California, SunTrust), are glad to interview people who are only too happy to badmouth their former employers--often in violation of their severance agreements. Hopefully these companies now realize that there's quite a bit of bad press hurting goodwill. To add, there are many lawyers who are more than happy to take on reverse discrimination lawsuits--further besmirching these companies' "good names" in the process...

The most audacious example was SunTrust saying to its laid-off employees--"as part of your severance, for the next 2 years, you'll need to be available to come into your former office, on weekends, with no pay, to help us if we need it". This sparked a backlash, especially since the words "slavery" & "indentured servitude" started being associated with SunTrust--not to mention some comments by the Dept. of Labor of some states. Took them 4 days to remove that clause... Wonder how that offshore transition is 1.5 years and counting--without that free labor?

http://www.computerworld.com/a...

Yay for alternative facts... regarding 640K..

Agreed. Based on one of the embedded articles reference in the original the server had run for at least 4 years continuously, which I still find impressive.

http://www.computerworld.com/article/2550661/data-center/this-server-outlasts-two-presidents.html

At the same time, efforts to diversify into other areas have not been, to put it charitably, as successful as they would have liked.

No, they making money by the bucket-load. Check it out, the new face of Microsoft. They missed mobile, but they've managed to diversify sufficiently into other areas that they are now more profitable than any time in the company's history.

Good riddance to Windows, though. May it die a quick death.

do you see businesses switching all their workstations to OSX or Linux? Nope.

Um, that's not entirely correct.

Remember that little corporation, IBM, you were talking about? They are busily deploying Macs (running MacOS, in case you wondered) at the rate of 1,300 new installs per week (now actually 1,900), and to the tune of 90,000 as of October, 2016, and projected to be 100,000 units by the end of last year (now actually 130,000).

And if you read the second linked-to article, you will note that it is the employees that decide whether they want a Mac, and if so, they receive a new, shrink-wrapped Mac and a URL, and with that, and only that, are able to do 100% of the setup entirely without involving IBM's IT department. This is one of the many reasons that IBM has stated that every Mac they deploy, regardless of the higher price of the Mac hardware, actually saves IBM money .

There are dozens of similar articles regarding IBM's highly successful Mac program. Just Google "IBM deploying macs" and you'll soon see what the corporate desktop is soon going to look like, at least for forward-thinking companies like IBM.