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  1. Why was it intentionally misspelled as "Cruse"? That's neither an ironic nor humorous variant. And literally every product in the US has its name trademarked, nothing unique there.

  2. Towards the end of the article it suggests that there will be additional upcoming legislation targeting the H-4 (H1B spouse) work visa.

  3. Move even closer to the plant and you might see that the vehicle is the "Cruze", not "Cruse".

  4. Intent on Did You Vote? Now Your Friends May Know (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    > "I don't want this to come off like we're shaming our friends into voting," said Naseem Makiya, the chief executive of OutVote, a start-up in Boston.

    It doesn't "come off" like that at all. It comes across like you're a start-up with a useless, non-monetizable product and you're willing to attach yourself to nearly anything in order to gain your desired career trajectory.

  5. Re: Hilarious on Microsoft Now Has the Best Device Lineup in the Industry (char.gd) · · Score: 1

    Did you miss the entire LA Unified ipad fiasco? Start here circa 2013 http://articles.latimes.com/20... then finish here with the followup two years later https://gizmodo.com/the-la-sch... .

  6. Re:They have to practice on something on Robot Lawnmowers Are Killing Hedgehogs (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Most of them have a loud alarm that goes off if they're randomly picked up.

  7. Re:Fascinating on Amazon Plans To Move Completely Off Oracle Software By Early 2020 (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Oracle DBA and dev work is usually one of the first things to get offshored, unless the data is such that us regs prevent that. Oracle is fairly static technology and Indian developers have wrapped their minds around it quite well.

  8. That's funny. When we were on Oracle, "Data Guard" realtime replication would constantly break and we'd have to log ship to restore it. We were constantly filing support issues. We reported so many acknowledged bugs that it felt like we were the only place on earth using it. There's also a laundry list of types that it won't replicate, for some reason. Once we switched to PG, we haven't had one single issue with replication.

  9. Comparing language to library on Ask Slashdot: Should I Ditch PHP? · · Score: 2

    "I think .NET is a much cleaner language to work in with Microsoft's excellent Visual Studio IDE and debugger," argues Slashdot reader Agret , adding "there are many large projects in my city hiring .NET developers and being a strongly typed language the code quality is generally better than PHP."

    I wonder what Agret's thoughts on C# are?

  10. Re:Don't hardcode SQL queries in your application on Google Maps API Becomes 'More Difficult and Expensive' (govtech.com) · · Score: 1

    Sounds like suggestions from someone who's never actually done a db migration and also has the world's simplest database schema and queries.

  11. Re:Probably not a computer exploit on Hackers Stole 600 Gallons of Gas From Detroit Gas Station, Report Says (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    I live in South Florida and they do it down here by tearing open the pump housing and hot-wiring the pump. Nothing high tech at all.

  12. Re:good luck on Apple is Rebuilding Maps From the Ground Up (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Not to mention Google has an army of volunteers (regional editors) that have the ability to instantly publish changes to the map.

  13. Coming soon, Java audits on Oracle's Aggressive Sales Tactics Are Backfiring With Customers (lightreading.com) · · Score: 1

    With Oracle's recent announcement that they intend to start enforcing Java licensing in commercial environments, the Oracle audit problem will only get worse. With the rate at which organizations are dinged for database licensing, imagine the fat checks that will be cut for commercial use of the JRE.

  14. Re:Wake me when they switch DBs on Oracle's Aggressive Sales Tactics Are Backfiring With Customers (lightreading.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm going to guess he means that the amount of 3rd party software, such as BI tools, that can interface with PG is very limited compared to ones that can interface with Oracle.

  15. Re: When did software geeks become the Mob? on Oracle's Aggressive Sales Tactics Are Backfiring With Customers (lightreading.com) · · Score: 1

    We did the same. It was a two year project because we were knee deep in pl/sql code but it worked out very well in the end. We also used Oracle's B2B product, which we switched away from at the same time. The motivation for the swap came after Oracle hit us with an audit and demanded payment for a data warehousing option enabled on a single dev server, an option we had never used (or requested). That Oracle install had been performed by a oracle consultant sourced by our oracle sales rep, but this apparently didn't matter. My boss was ultra-enraged, as the unexpected bill caused us to exceed the software budget for that year.

  16. Re:Relevant? on Increasing Similarity of Billboard Songs · · Score: 1

    The chart now factors in online sales, free streaming, and paid streaming with various weightings. It's not as basic as it was historically.

  17. Worst EDI compliance on FedEx Sees Blockchain as 'Next Frontier' For Logistics (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Fedex Freight fails to send EDI on roughly 2% of what we ship with them. Apparently this is due to mis-keying information off the shipping documents. Who cares about blockchain when they're still using manual keying of shipping reference data?

  18. Re:Wave-activated sounds superior, actually on Engineer Develops Sonar Alarm System To Monitor Kids In the Pool (newatlas.com) · · Score: 1

    The wave-activated system already exists from several manufacturers, it's fairly common and costs less than $200. There's basically no need for this Kickstarter at all.

  19. Re:Amazon has no incentive to change... on Amazon's Jeff Bezos Called Out On Counterfeit Products Problem (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    It's already worse than eBay, in a way. At least with eBay, you can somewhat use the seller feedback to determine if a product is likely to be fraudulent. On Amazon, due to mixed FBA, you have no idea whose product you'll actually receive even if you order an item sold by Amazon.

  20. Re: this is a laughably easy conversion to make on Manafort Left an Incriminating Paper Trail Because He Couldn't Figure Out How to Convert PDFs to Word Files (slate.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    I just tried this in Adobe and it wouldn't even load the PDF. I was using Adobe Audition 10, do I need 11?

  21. Re:Senior Tools on Who Killed The Junior Developer? (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    Only in latency, really.

  22. Re:New processor for everyone! on Microsoft Issues Windows Out-of-Band Update That Disables Spectre Mitigations (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    It looks like you can also disable the patch (or at least the spectre variant 2 and the meltdown migitations) in Windows clients now also. If I'm reading the bottom part of this article right: https://support.microsoft.com/...

  23. Re:Apple makes tech for the "time is money" crowd on Apple's 'What's a Computer?' Ad is Annoying People: Business Insider (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Funny that you use that example. A few months ago, a house guest tried to print to my wireless Brother printer from their iPad. They kept whining that it was just prompting them for "an AirPort device". They were never able to print.

  24. Re:LOVE IT! on Ask Slashdot: What Is Your View On Forced Subscription-Only Software? · · Score: 1

    So, just so I understand, you're saying that everyone using Live professionally to create recorded music isn't eventually exporting stems for import into Pro Tools or Logic for final mixing? Because they are.

  25. Re:LOVE IT! on Ask Slashdot: What Is Your View On Forced Subscription-Only Software? · · Score: 1

    I don't understand, why wouldn't you buy the Protools Perpetual License instead of the monthly subscription, if that's what you prefer?