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  1. Re: Global warming on Humans Are Causing the Earth To Wobble More Than It Should, NASA Finds (bgr.com) · · Score: 1

    Nothing is taught in school. They just repeat shit enough times so that you give up and treat it as fact.

  2. Extra work on Ex-NSA Employee Gets 5 Years In Prison For Taking Home Top Secret Files (cnet.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    In this case it looks like bringing work home did in fact affect his work life balance.

  3. Windows VD. Get it?

  4. Re: Hmmm, verry interesting on Uber Wins Key Ruling In Its Fight Against Treating Drivers As Employees (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    This is going to ruin it for all those guys trolling in Uber cars to meet young girls.

  5. Yep. They signed up with Uber/Lyft because they like it and want it. Though you always have the possibility of being sued by contractors for random shit since they do not feel like a part of something.

  6. Re: Uber isn't a software company on Uber Wins Key Ruling In Its Fight Against Treating Drivers As Employees (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Bam. That probably summarizes the eventual outcome of this case.

  7. Re: Stupid question on Do You Know Cobol? If So, There Might Be a Job for You. (wsj.com) · · Score: 2

    Absolute bullshit. Some processors like TSYS have rewritten this shit several times and use Java. Mastercard has had outages of their COBOL mainframe stack several times in the last few years.

  8. Re: Would you even be looking for a job? on Do You Know Cobol? If So, There Might Be a Job for You. (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    It doesn't exist but they will hurry up and promise it to you for a fee.

  9. Re: Would you even be looking for a job? on Do You Know Cobol? If So, There Might Be a Job for You. (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Rolling on the floor kicking and crying with laughter...holy shit

  10. Re: Most prevalent? No. on Do You Know Cobol? If So, There Might Be a Job for You. (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    They are locked in for various reasons. They want out but getting out sets off the risk meter and they just bow thier head and buy another. Don't act like these people are jazzed about maintaining this expensive, inflexible shit.

  11. Re: COBOL Has Advantages on Do You Know Cobol? If So, There Might Be a Job for You. (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Not flexible. That's why it is still around.

  12. Re: I skipped COBOL class deliberately on Do You Know Cobol? If So, There Might Be a Job for You. (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    How about C#, Java, and Python instead. COBOL is a world of suck. It is like assembly language for batch jobs.

  13. Re: Seriously? on Do You Know Cobol? If So, There Might Be a Job for You. (wsj.com) · · Score: 2

    And it continues to hold back the technical progress of the banking and payments industry because people are too chicken shit or incapable of moving away from it. I just spent five years dealing with one fiasco and limitation after another brought on by fucking COBOL and mainframe applications. They completely suck and totally mismatch with the way computer systems have been designed and built since it went out of style. It fell out of favor for a reason, don't glorify it. It hangs around frankly because government regulation is used to stifle innovation in the space where it dominates.

  14. Re: Seriously? on Do You Know Cobol? If So, There Might Be a Job for You. (wsj.com) · · Score: 2

    Just left fin tech. Boring, great place to start but get the fuck out. They are notoriously bad at implementing tech and typically undervalue it.

  15. There is a popular phrase in the construction industry: "You are fired right before you hit the ground."

    The message, though often said over laughs, is one of social pressure.

  16. If they hired the people as Facebook FTEs this never would have happened. They scoffed their sense of loyalty by using them without including them.

  17. Re: Maybe Qualcom should have talked to AMD on How Qualcomm Tried and Failed To Steal Intel's Crown Jewel · · Score: 1

    I'm going to go with this. If your CEO is making announcements like this there is a pretty good chance he is blowing smoke. When does anyone who grandstands ever dig in to find out if they can pull it off? If they can pull it off they certainly don't make a fucking announcement.

  18. Re: Bloomberg Ignores the Facts on How Qualcomm Tried and Failed To Steal Intel's Crown Jewel · · Score: 0

    Wake the fuck up neckbeard. It follows the same pattern seen in every business the world over. Intel CPUs are used day in and day out without any type of security problems. The reasoning goes: I see your proof and I believe you but we have been using them for years and have never had a problem. In the back of thier mind the business just lost a little bit of respect for you because you keep brining it up. Sort of like when your toddler keeps running to tell you the dog rolled in poop.

  19. Re: Intel blew their credibility on How Qualcomm Tried and Failed To Steal Intel's Crown Jewel · · Score: -1, Troll

    Intel notoriously uses superior female design engineers and WILL emerge victorious. Quit being so sexist.

  20. Re: What really matters on Japan's Two Hopping Rovers Successfully Land On Asteroid Ryugu (space.com) · · Score: 0

    Nevermind that the shirt is plastered in obscure imagery featuring blonde women...the style choice alone should have sparked an internet outrage. This guy is a dumbass.

  21. Re: 1 B for reusable rockets on Japan's Two Hopping Rovers Successfully Land On Asteroid Ryugu (space.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Imagine the people we could have lifted out of poverty while creating a stronger nation, economy, and safer world. With the money we are spending on war shit we could have turned this planet into a garden of peace and prosperity a few times over.

  22. Re: Because they need a toy language? on Why Attackers Are Using C# For Post-PowerShell Attacks (forcepoint.com) · · Score: 1

    You can actually avoid the brain dead powershell syntax and leverage the entire . NET namespace directly. In fact, given the sloppy nature of Windows system admins I recommend it since you never know what fucking powershell version is going to be on a particular server.

  23. Re: If you have access to Powershell the rest is m on Why Attackers Are Using C# For Post-PowerShell Attacks (forcepoint.com) · · Score: 1

    Found the python developer

  24. Re: VB.net is much more secure than C# on Why Attackers Are Using C# For Post-PowerShell Attacks (forcepoint.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah. You lose that much respect for yourself and before you know it you are writing apps in VB. NET's bitchy toothless cousin, Python.

  25. Re: Disabling C# / Powershell on Why Attackers Are Using C# For Post-PowerShell Attacks (forcepoint.com) · · Score: 1

    C# is ubiquitous. Before long. Net core will be everywhere. You still need the user to execute the code and provide permissions. This is stupid.