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  1. Didn't they learn anything from deskjet printers? on Silicon Valley's $400 Juicer May Be Feeling the Squeeze (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    Make the machine cheap and sell the consumables above cost.

  2. Re:Someone has been visited by an MS rep on The City Of Munich Now Wants To Abandon Linux And Switch Back to Windows (techrepublic.com) · · Score: 1

    It wasn't young programmers, it was anybody who just graduated from college and needed a job, probably 99% non-programmers. They would send them to a boot camp in St. Charles Ill. (mostly to drink). Then they would bring them on projects at $350+ per hour. All they would do was generate spreadsheets while the real programmers had to do all the work and get non of the glory.

  3. What gets me about "the cloud", is that at least for Amazon it appears that there are multiple clouds. You can still have outages. Doesn't sound like Amazon is doing "the cloud" right to me. Anybody else have any thoughts on this?

  4. Kinda like the people who fill the pot holes in the streets.

  5. Re:Not really a big piece of news ... on Hundreds of Drupal Sites Targeted With Fake Ransomware (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    It is the pay for plugin market that really is killing wordpress, but it is also what keeps it going. You have a million marketers saying that wordpress is the greatest thing since sliced bread, because that is how they get their bread. Last I looked at joomla, it was in the same sorry state. Drupal is still the only truly free cms.

  6. qmail? djbdns?

  7. Says the anonymous coward who is probably still struggling with their first "Hello World" program in quick basic.

  8. php ssl certification validation on Drupal Update Process Flawed By Multiple Bugs (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    If I remember right, php didn't start checking peer ssl certs until 5.6. Then it doesn't really matter if http or https is used because php wouldn't even notice if the cert was invalid if you aren't on php >= 5.6.

  9. Of course it is, it was based off of oscommerce another steaming pile of phpshit.

  10. Re:No Store? on 2016 Presidential Candidate Security Investigation (infosecinstitute.com) · · Score: 1

    How is that not the same as:

    Meanwhile, a different candidate rapidly built a large and complex web application that could have several undiscovered vulnerabilities (security experts call this a “large attack surface”). And not a single candidate returned my attempts to contact them about possible security vulnerabilities.

    ?

    Isn't Shopify a large an complex web application. Has anyone done a security audit on shopify or reviewed its source code?

  11. Re:In other news, the web is at least 24% unsecure on WordPress Now Powers 25% of the Web · · Score: 1

    Yes, it is better that your plugins contain the sql-injection attacks so the core doesn't have to deal with them.

  12. Jump scare on Artists Create a 1000-Year GIF Loop · · Score: 1

    Pretty sure the last frame is a jump scare.

  13. The monied interest on UK Government Proposes 10-Year Copyright Infringement Jail Term · · Score: 2

    want to make everything you do a crime if you aren't paying them money.

  14. seagate good drives IMO on When Will Your Hard Drive Fail? · · Score: 1, Informative

    I have 12 seagate drives in a raid array. I finally had one fail, but it was after 8 years or operation, but I think that was my fault because I moved the server to a new rack and it was offline for about 30 minutes and it failed about 30 days later. Data loss? Zero. Personally I think backblaze is the cause of the seagate drive failures.

  15. The moment you tie it to another service on Showtime Announces Subscription-Free Streaming Plan · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Be it cable tv, itunes, ads (hulu) etc. I'm NEVER going to subscribe. Let me pay you money, and access content with no ads and I'm in. You can even put appropriate limits such as with netflixs and its # of streams limit.

  16. Acer laptops are great on We'll Be the Last PC Company Standing, Acer CEO Says · · Score: 1

    Cheap and well built. I recently bought a $250 from the local Microcenter and first thing I did when I got it home was to take it apart. Let's just say I was impressed with the quality of the parts inside. Very much reminded me of Apple, expect it was easier to put back together, all the screws were the same size and had standard heads on them that didn't require a special tool to deal with. I buttoned it up and installed Linux. Go Acer!

  17. XNU?!? on Linux Getting Extensive x86 Assembly Code Refresh · · Score: 1

    Is apple powered by scientology?

  18. Re: Java killer on Visual Studio 2015 Can Target Linux; Android Apps Anywhere Chrome Can Run · · Score: 1

    I tried IntellJ, it was ok, but I found that I was better off using Eclipse and spending the money on beer.

  19. Re:Java killer on Visual Studio 2015 Can Target Linux; Android Apps Anywhere Chrome Can Run · · Score: 1

    First, when you say shit like "intellectually honest developer" you are committing an Ad Hominem logical fallacy in your argument, therefore making your argument invalid.

    Now, why do I think VS is a hot mess? Stuff like this:

    https://social.msdn.microsoft....

    When the features of your IDE is driven by the bean counters, then it is time to switch.

  20. Re:Java killer on Visual Studio 2015 Can Target Linux; Android Apps Anywhere Chrome Can Run · · Score: 0

    Not really, having programmed in both C# and java this week, I much prefer Eclipse to the mess that is Visual Studio.

  21. Re:Over at McDonald's on IT Jobs With the Best (and Worst) ROI · · Score: 1

    I tried ordering haggis once at the drive-thru, and they asked me if I wanted fries with it. WTF, do they think I'm a brit?

  22. My Job: /. commenter on IT Jobs With the Best (and Worst) ROI · · Score: 3, Funny

    ROI: I think I owe somebody some money.

  23. Come to Columbus OH on Comcast's Incompetence, Lack of Broadband May Force Developer To Sell Home · · Score: 1

    I just dropped my internet cost by $20 and increased the speed to 50Mbps down/ 5Mbps up.

  24. It will take you 7 days to get well with homeopat on Homeopathy Turns Out To Be Useless For Treating Medical Conditions · · Score: 1

    ic medicine, a week without it.

  25. It is almost like on State Employees Say Rules Prevent Open "Climate Change" Discussion In Florida · · Score: 4, Insightful

    They want to be submerged under 20m of water.