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  1. Re:Can but won't let you? on OneDrive Has Stopped Working On Non-NTFS Drives (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    NTFS supports teh data streams for things like Indexing

  2. Re:Backwards? on OneDrive Has Stopped Working On Non-NTFS Drives (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    NTFS supports data streams which OneDrive uses

  3. Re:Javascript pushing it down on Is Ruby's Decline In Popularity Permanent? (computerworld.com.au) · · Score: 1

    And callback after callback is while you try to reinvent threading using one of the shittiest languages known to man outside Visual Basic is easier on the eyes?

  4. Re: whoa MAN KEWL kids use ERLANG on Is Ruby's Decline In Popularity Permanent? (computerworld.com.au) · · Score: 1

    Techno Psychobitch bitch is utterly terrifying hipster superset of Erlang! The real Rockstar language.

    Kids be cool use Erlang reborn as OTP

  5. Ryzen not Windows 10 certified? on AMD Launches Ryzen PRO CPUs: Enhanced Security, Longer Warranty, Better Quality (anandtech.com) · · Score: 1

    Secure boot and TPM is pretty standard nowdays and this means Ryzens can't be sold with Windows OEM as the license agreement dictates secure boot and TPM keys.

    ROOTkit detection is pretty essential today. So this means only Ryzen Pros offer what Intel has had for years

  6. Ask and you shall receive?
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=...

    AMD is back with a new architecture from scratch after the terrible piledriver architecture.

    It's equivalent to an 8 core 16 threaded i7 4790k if one ever existed in gaming and beats the i7 7700k in productivity tasks and matches $2000 i7 6900 series CPUs in both gaming and productivity.

    AMD rehired it's Alpha and AthlonXP CPU designer for Ryzen with it's new design from scratch. Downside are bugs and errata as it's brand new

  7. Well duh on Microsoft Admits Disabling Anti-Virus Software For Windows 10 Users (bbc.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Of course you run one AV software at a time and you disable the other one. That is PC use 101. What's the problem?

  8. Emacs was too bloated on Community Ports 'Visual Studio Code' To Chromebooks, Raspberry Pi (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1, Funny

    Eighty Meg's And Constantly Swapping ... Ducks

  9. Re:Nobody who worked on SGI machines misses IRIX o on SGI Desktop Clone Gets A New Version On Fedora (maxxinteractive.com) · · Score: 1

    ...any of the associated software.

    The hardware? YES. Sheer fscking awesomeness. The software? Really, really crap.

    For all the *nix users out there who think we don't have a "Windows ME" in our history - you clearly missing out on 6.x series IRIX, especially in the early days. Crashing like SGI got $1 for everytime it crashed (and boy did SGI need the money from 97 onwards...)

    I miss the SGI IR2 that was in my office (they had to put it somewhere and I won the lottery) and would love to have it heating my office today - but the software? LULZ...

    Apparently you never used Sco Xenix aka OpenServer later on

  10. Re:Who cares about bathrooms? on Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, and Google Lobby Against Texas 'Bathroom' Bill (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Yes. The vast majority of transgenders were abused as children and as such have an extremely high chance of becoming abusers themselves. The number of transgenders who rape, kill, molest etc vastly outnumber "straight" people when adjusted for population.

    They are dangerous people to be around, period.

    Citation?

  11. Re:Go Wherever you want on Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, and Google Lobby Against Texas 'Bathroom' Bill (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    You can be hurt or killed in the men's room or thrown in jail if you use the ladies and even be registered as a sex offender in states like Arkansas if caught

  12. Re:Who cares about bathrooms? on Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, and Google Lobby Against Texas 'Bathroom' Bill (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Because you can be hurt or killed in the men's room and have the police take you away or worse labeled a sex offender in states like Arkansas depending on their bathroom laws

  13. Re:You must be kidding on PC Market Could Return To Growth in 2019 (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes they have made billions in revenue for Microsoft already ... outside of slashdot of course.

  14. Re:I'm sure this is due to all the avocado toast. on 80% of Millennials Say They Want To Buy a Home -- But Most Have Less Than $1,000 (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    The fact your generation loves leasing beamers and infinties as their favorite car options might not have anything to do with this? Not you particularly but there is an allergic reaction to being seen with an old car

  15. Then they are dumb. At least 15%! Today you need to pay the bank insurance for less to cover the bank losses??! So do under 15% and now you pay an extra $300 to cover the bank in case you foreclosure and they cannot get as much.

    Rotten deal for the little guy getting raped. I would rather rent then be in such a position

  16. Saving yes I agree debt is a freaking problem! I listen to Dave Ramsey and this rant was shocking!

    To summarize funny video:
    1. 85% of all car sales were financed
    2. 1/3 of those were subprimed! Meaning 10% to 24% interest!

    Mellinials prefer BMWs as the most preferred car leased of course which is hard to believe.

    Besides no one wanting to be seen with a beater car I think if you make so little with the high cost of living that you need to cut back to save means you are not ready for a house. Think about it?

    A new roof? $10,000. Garage door open breaks? $2,500. AC goes out? $7,000 etc. What you think your rant about not going to Starbucks and buying Nikes every month will save enough for these unfortunate expenses?? I got into an argument with a co-worker who is trying to make me feel bad he is about to get a home with his grin. ... the dude is so broke he didn't have have AC in his car for 6 months. He is buying an auctioned foreclosed house. I asked him how he plans to repair the roof or buy an AC if it's been stolen?

    So it's 2 fold. Too much debt and shitty $15/he jobs which corporate America loves as even senior level positions HR wants less than 5 years experience so they can pay less. Combined with a 100% increase in rent and home prices since 2011 and mellinials are shit up the creek.

    It's a mess. But Lord help you if you buy a home and don't have $20,000 in cash for emergencies? Saving on small things won't get you that. You need to earn more and for heaven sakes don't buy new SUVs!

  17. Did you say the same when IE 6 had 90% of the market?

  18. I may add getvfs is opensource and Microsoft provided the patch. It's up to the Git team to include it.

  19. Microsoft released gitfs as opensource. It's there for anyone to patch.

    My guess is MS hatred is why in the opensource community

  20. 5 minute provisioning times YEEHA on Java Creator James Gosling Joins Amazon Web Services (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1, Funny

    with.lots.of.different.methods.to.chose.and.remember.from.tobe() implements java

    I guess there is always Azure ... haha sorry had to type that last sentence

  21. Re:Is this a bad thing? on Robots Could Wipe Out Another 6 Million Retail Jobs (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    More painters, more singers, more writers and some people to create art I didn't even know I'd love. I want to spend less of my income on the things I need and more on the things I want and experiences with the people I love. My job is automating things, at least in part, and there is plenty of room for it in my industry. It doesn't look like there is any chance of automating my part anytime soon, more's the pity since I'd rather be drawing and painting. I'd even consider chef, though I don't know if I have the innate talent; Still, I'd be willing to give it a shot.

    Retail, fast food and cashiering are fine if that's the job you can get, but they kinda suck. Nobody should really have to do those jobs if there is money to be made in the creative world instead. How does the creative job pay as much? It has to be because that's what becomes valuable due to the shrinking value of obsolete professions.

    Drinkable water is tremendously valuable and was worth a lot of money before it was made common. Ditto for electricity. Imagine you're a serf in the middle ages given your first cheeseburger and being told it would only cost you ten minutes of your day's work to have it. For three hours work you could feed your family for the whole day. For a whole twelve hour work day you could eat better than your local lord.

    Really that's an understatement. The local lord could, maybe, hope to have something close in quality to a McDonalds burger, but the fries, fresh produce, bread made the same day, fries and soda would have been shockingly high quality compared to what even the richest had available, particularly in the off season. Add to that reliable lighting, the ability to travel hundreds of miles in a day, communicate with anyone in the world, all the facts you could ask for at your fingertips... Our lives are amazing and we hardly appreciate it. Even the worst healthcare in America is better than what was available to kings a few hundred years ago.

    Some of the progress will suck. There is no denying that some things will suck for some people. I wish it wasn't that way, but we can't pretend everything will be wonderful. That said, everything has been getting better for most people most of the time for the past several hundred years. I am optimistic the trend will continue.

    Ok that's nice. I am your landlord. I am raising your rent $100 a month every 7 months. I have this wonderful studio going for $975 a month. Corporate requires me to make sure you make $3,000 for this 425 sq foot paradise in a suburb far from the city center. Where is my money!

    Your art and writing either make me $975 a month or you SIR ARE HOMELESS! ...pfft meaningful work ... slacker

  22. Re:never use self-checkout on Robots Could Wipe Out Another 6 Million Retail Jobs (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    From the 1900s: If farm tractors and combines replace dozens of farm workers, how do we teach people how to work?

    Guess what, though farm work has dropped from 70% of the labor force to under 2%, we still managed to find things to do, including entry-level jobs. If the job of cashier takes the same path, we will again find new things for our teenage workers to do.

    You know I read adjusted for inflation in 1776 the average American household income was over $170,000 a year in todays dollars!

    There is a reason 90% in 1776 farmed. It was a booming business and America had lots and lots of natural resources worth big bucks in Europe which is why the American Revolution kicked in when taxes and export laws kicked in.

    Sure we have progress but the south was super rich back then and slavery was part of it, but also because the cost of goods were so much more expensive and profitable.

    Today we have more CEO's richer than ever as the rest of the labor force has to fight for lesser jobs . Trump won because people want those $30/hr jobs they had in the factor just putting in 2 screws all day with full free health benefits. It shows automation, business processing, computers, and outsourcing has heavily devalued those jobs greatly since the 1980s.

    The incentive to work really goes down when the wages fall with it while rent and healthcare keeps soaring very rapidly compared to inflation which is why a lot of teenagers and those whose parents once made $30 /hr to install windows at the Ford plant do not want to work for $10/hr.

  23. Re:never use self-checkout on Robots Could Wipe Out Another 6 Million Retail Jobs (cnn.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If there are no entry-level jobs, how do we teach people work?

    There are entry-level jobs besides retail. For instance, restaurant employment is going up. Also, once the Mexicans have paid for their wall, there will be lots of entry level jobs picking fruit.

    Speaking of which I used to LOVE Red Robbin when I lived in Alaska as we did not have much chains up there.

    One day in 2010 we saw a closing sign. We asked around and the waiter said no we are just re-opening to a smaller location. I asked a smaller location? Yeah we are doing new innovative techniques with half the staff! Same service but less people so we can do things better according to corporate>?!!

    Red Robin sucked afterwards. As it all went from a grill to a freaking chain toaster oven. Instead of a chef who can cook your burger anyway we had no option. Some $ 8/hr employee throws the patty (probably now pre-cooked) into the toaster chain and BOP patties by the dozens in 4 minutes.

    I did not see any robots but half of the workers were fired thanks to automation and the quality and choice of foods went down. The clams were now frozen imported into a fryer and peope like assembly lines throw patties into a machine with no option to cook and slopped crap from a bottle and threw it on a plate. Funny prices stayed the same. I thought automation would lower prices so we would have more spending power?

  24. Re: Win X Upgrade on Almost All WannaCry Victims Were Running Windows 7 (theverge.com) · · Score: 0

    You've obviously never worked enterprise IT. You don't roll-out new versions of anything until they're thoroughly tested, and sometimes you find that you can't roll-out a new version of some software because other mission-critical software is not compatible with whatever new thing you're trying.

    Case in point, all of those ATMs and Point of Sale systems that are still running XP, that Microsoft is still supporting.

    Windows 7 has more support for legacy applications than 8/8.1, and Windows 10 has even less support than 8/8.1. If those legacy applications provide the profit or are otherwise of primary importance to the organization then it does not make sense for the organization to change software. The operating system is merely a means to an end, not the end itself.

    I most certainly work in I.T. and do test updates and regularly bring them out. I quit my last job as a result of them hanging on to legacy and broken old processes and servers with no support or rundancy as I did not want to get fired or that write up when ransomware would show up. Hell, we had one mission critical server 2003 EOL with a non working tape backup that we keep using old refurbished units! Gee no potential problem there I mean what could possibly happen?

    If you do not roll out reguarly security updates to your clients you are incompetent PERIOD. This patch was released in March. What was your excuse?

    Reactive management is a plague and not just in I.T. A good white collar professional is proactive on the latest and always has processes when shit hits the fan. If your employer doesn't want to listen a competent IT guy will find another one. ATMs are not applicable as they do not go on the internet and run custom software and installations so locked down that if you used the USB port for a mouse it would trigger an alarm and lock out. These are not the same as a client workstation that needs more flexibility.

    My last employer uses IE 6 too today in 2017. BUT they use a custom citrix VM with no internet access and just the intranet app to use a secure connection to an up to date database all locked down tight. So do not use that as an excuse either to not update the rest of your infrastructure.

  25. Re:well you know what they say on Microsoft Finally Bans SHA-1 Certificates In Its Browsers (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Good luck with that. Some places would label you as a troublemaker for insulting their phb who paid millions for these web apps. I left my former employer over such things as they refused to update anything and didn't want to be fired when shit hit the fan