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  1. Re: Would I allow an employer to do this? I think on More Companies Plan To Implant Microchips Into Their Employees' Hands (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Dude. Lucifer could run as a republican and Jesus as a Democrat and the white southern evangelicals will vote for Lucifer because he has an R next to his name.

    Yes call me a bigot but the last 2 election cycles and schools that teach creationism here say I am right.

  2. Re:Would I allow an employer to do this? I think n on More Companies Plan To Implant Microchips Into Their Employees' Hands (engadget.com) · · Score: 1, Informative

    Sadly, I am not exaggerating either!!

    No, you're stereotyping.

    I am. People in my state voted for Cruz on the belief Beto was a radical socialist and the Mexican caravan was going to take their jobs away. I lost faith in them and proud to call them idiots with no self awareness. In any other country I can not see how any sane rational person would choose Cruz or the racist governor of Florida whose party created the red tide due to environmental rollbacks in regulations in water run offs.

  3. What is WIndows? on 'Windows Isn't a Service, It's an Operating System' (howtogeek.com) · · Score: 0

    In this day and age we can thank Linux in terms of hosting web apps and making Android tablets which devalued operating systems to nothing.

    Microsoft no longer sells if really for any profit and it is just a tool for them to shill out Office 365 licenses for profits but that can be done on Mac OSX and web thin clients as well.

    Sure MS makes some sales I guess in corporate America but the roost is done and slaughtered. Windows XP is a classic example which shocked me in 2014 as people still used it and fought change??!! No one is going to pay lots of money for an upgrade nor stand in line at CompUSA at midnight for the latest version of Windows anymore.

    It is just something that comes with your bestbuy purchase now so it will function. It kind of is a portal to sell services since you can get copies of cheap or next to nothing.

  4. Re:Would I allow an employer to do this? I think n on More Companies Plan To Implant Microchips Into Their Employees' Hands (engadget.com) · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    The good thing about the USA is that it has quite a lot of heavily-armed Christians who would LITERALLY consider the CEO and management of company A to be the spawn of the Devil.

    As someone who lives in the bible southern belt of the country they worship money and greed as they are one with the Republican party down here because of abortion and gay marriage. They so fear the government as the devil they will worship that CEO thinking if they can get it implanted then maybe they too can be CEO someday if they work hard and vote conservative thanks to the tax cuts.

    Sadly, I am not exaggerating either!!

  5. Re:Can I get a "HELL, NO!" from y'all? on More Companies Plan To Implant Microchips Into Their Employees' Hands (engadget.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Hi RIck this is your state's unemployement board. I am sorry to say but we have to deny you unemployment benefits as this was a just cause termination based upon misconduct on your end.

    Hi Rick this is your bank. You are behind on your car note. If you do not pay all back payments plus penalties we will send our repo man to repossess your car.

    Hi Rick this is your wife. I can't be with a man without a job and Mike here has one. I am sorry but I want out of this marriage.

    Now you tell me which option you realistically have? If you are like most people who aren't developers and make $56,000 a year (the real average for salaries) I bet you do not have the savings or the bargaining power to say no. Also I may add even if you and many other slashdotters try to say no it won't work as HR is used to average folks saying yes forcing everyone else to be in the minority which they will say no to hiring you.

    Also having a gap on your resume is a very red flag that can damage your reputation and career. It will be noticed for years to come and many HR departments will blacklist you if they have not been fired themselves. That is just what they do all day and won't blink twice.

    There needs to be unions and laws as scary socialistic as that sounds as there is always some desperate dufus who will ruin it for the rest of us even if you are in the top 5% of earners the other 95% will just say yes fucking it up for the rest.

  6. Re:Would I allow an employer to do this? I think n on More Companies Plan To Implant Microchips Into Their Employees' Hands (engadget.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    First, chips are often obsoleted. The bits on HID proxy cards go up to handle attacks and business needs. I would not want something implanted where my next employer would demand version 1.0.0.0.1b of the chip and I have 1.0.0.1a.

    Plus, look at IoT vendor reputation as a whole. I wouldn't trust these people to make a secure Wi-Fi light bulb that wouldn't get pwned. Would I trust them with something that I'm stuck with for life? Nope.

    We already have biometrics. Why do we need some startup's chip, other than to give that startup a windfall profit?

    You're unemployed. Your savings is about all gone. Your bank called and they are sending John next weekend to repo your car if you don't make payments. Your wife is flirting with another dude who is employed and ready to leave. The bank also wants to know when you can hand over the keys to your home as you are now 90 days out and have a lawyer ready to take you to court and serve papers to get you homeless.

    SHitty company A is here with a way out. Just sign and agree to this and all your problems will go away.

    Not everyone is a hot shit top developer worth $175,000 a year and has the kind of bargaining power you possess in terms of employment. The average American Salary is still $58,000 if you believe that.

  7. Re:I am open to getting implants but none on More Companies Plan To Implant Microchips Into Their Employees' Hands (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    my clients/employers would ever have any kind access to/make use of. I don't know why any employee/contractor would accept that as a terms of employment
    As for implants for my defective eyes and/or other senses, computer interfacing, nervous system interfacing I would definitely consider it when it looks advantageous and useful.
    But in reality I am probably to old (63) to get there.

    Just my 2 cents ;)

    Hey this is your boss posting. You know that retirement package that kicks in 2 years where you could loose $200,000? It would be a shame if something happened to that.

    Just get the implant and you can keep your retirement package etc.

  8. The password sharing for social media was requested once last year when I was unemployed. It was a crappy job at a call center company. I declined.

    But scanning your own PC? That is illegal in the the US as an unreasonable search and warrant. However, if it is a work based PC then well they can you wave those rights away which it does make sense. This is why I seperate work and home machines. If am coding or doing something for my own side projects or work ideas I do not mix it up with work as they can steal it and claim they own my IP. No thanks.

    The heart rate tracking is becoming mainstream because the asshole private insurance companies threaten to raise the rates or drop the company if they DON"T do it forcing HR. Gee, and they say government socialism insurance is evil and invasive with death panels here in the States? I think it's the other way around.

  9. Socialism!

    We can't have any of that around here. It will lead to poverty and Venezuelan! Just ask Any American?

    Trust the boss and management. They would never lie or take advantage of you because you are always one of them in your eyes.

  10. Re:How to write performance-first code! on Google To Pay JavaScript Frameworks To Implement Performance-First Code (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    No. All the cool kids are learning Techno Psycho Bitch now?

  11. Re:Not gunna happen... on Google To Pay JavaScript Frameworks To Implement Performance-First Code (zdnet.com) · · Score: 0

    IE 8 is dead now. Let JQuery rest in peace. Most corporate users who still use insecure ancient IE also have Chrome as HTML 5 is a requirement to use the internet.

  12. Re:So the good news is Java isn't going away on Amazon Releases A No-Cost Distribution of OpenJDK (sdtimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Easy. Outlaw Techno PsychoBitch man the most hipster language ever!

  13. Re:So the good news is Java isn't going away on Amazon Releases A No-Cost Distribution of OpenJDK (sdtimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Easy. Outlaw Techno Psycobitch man the most hipster approval language ever!

  14. Re: Stop goddamn assuming the jack is for the 'poo on Mid-Range Google 'Pixel 3 Lite' Leaks With Snapdragon 670, Headphone Jack (9to5google.com) · · Score: 1

    Look up pocophone. Every Indian I know swears by them. Liquid cooling, headphone jack, dust resistant, and a snap dragon 845 for $399.

  15. I can beat that. I am typing this on the precursor of the pixel ... A Nexus 6P. I just got an 8.1 notification this morning lol.

    But I will say the battery already has been replaced and it is randomly restarting but it is 2.5 years old

  16. Re:NOOOOOO! on The Next Version of HTTP Won't Be Using TCP (zdnet.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    They are already the IE 6 of this decade. Notice on Android phones when you switch apps from YOUTUBE you see the video playing in the background?

    Well that is HTML 5.... err Google HTML 5 called Picture in Picture canvas. It is a proprietary Google CSS that web developers judge other browsers by. This is just one example well Google decides which standards are used and it makes Firefox and Edge look incompetent in comparison just like the PHB's viewed Firefox as incompetent because sites always worked in IE 6 so it must be the best browser.

  17. Re: Use KMS on Linux or Hyper-V on Win10 on Disgruntled Security Researcher Publishes Major VirtualBox 0-Day Exploit (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    You are correct. In a type 1 hypervisor there is a parent child relationship as the hypervisor runs in ring -1 underneath the kernel inside the CPU itself. So near native speeds for the parent and more restrictions for the children or so called guests as they call them in type 2. On my home PC I can game fine. World of Warcraft slowed down only 1 to 2 fps and I have an older i7 4770K. Guests would be slower with the GPU in pass through mode but much quicker than virtual box as no software layer is used.

    So far my CPU runs much cooler and all my guests sleep when the parent OS sleeps as everything is integrated which is cool

    I/O is much faster in hyper-V and KMs for all vms and GPU pass thru. Downside is latency dependent apps like audio mixing might have problems. Also your nic gets virtualized into a switch so if you use custom DNS stuff like cloudflare which I vuse then you need to configure this before enabling hyper-V as your Ethernet 1 doesn't move packets anymore as the hypervisor does this now

  18. Re:Use KMS on Linux or Hyper-V on Win10 on Disgruntled Security Researcher Publishes Major VirtualBox 0-Day Exploit (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    The integration tool,.s are default on modern linux distros as a kernel module. I do not have experience in ArchLinux but I have never needed to install them manually ever.

  19. Use KMS on Linux or Hyper-V on Win10 on Disgruntled Security Researcher Publishes Major VirtualBox 0-Day Exploit (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    If you have to use WIndows upgrade to pro under "This PC" and enable Hyper-V. It supports Linux and even FreeBSD at the kernel level without guest tools automatically. If you run linux KMS is there and qemu if you want a gui. Shoot even pfsense ran under Hyper-V natively without any hacks or packages out of the iso!

    Both KMS and Hyper-V are type-1 hypervisors unlike the shitty VmWare Workstation and virtualbox. No guest tools and run bare metal near native speeds.

  20. Easy. It was late and it had to be completed. We were told we can fix it later but the CEO promised to the Client it would be done by 4am for 6am calls. That time never came to fix it as I would get in trouble if I spoke up

  21. IBM aint stupid ... ok well maybe. The stuff that is profitable you can bet your ass won't be free. Example is IBM's java you cited. In Gentoo in 2004 I remember using portage to install it.

    Today it aint free anymore as management wanted to capitalize on it and prevent Oracle from stealing their trade secrets (like they are worth anything). They are a company not your friend or open source organization. If they spent $34,000,000,000 you bet your ass they want to maximize their investment to pay for it!

    Remember Oracle bought Java to sue Google and ruin copyright law forever to fuck over Mysql and MariaDB.

  22. I'm going to have to switch to Ubuntu.

    Why? Is there some specific IBM behavior you object to? If so, please explain it here.

    If it’s just a dislike of corporate involvement with Linux... Red Hat was the wrong distro for you in the first place.

    IBM charges Cadillac prices and consulting fees and then onshores Indians fresh out of college with no experience for 10x the cost it would be to do it yourself. We had a call center at another employer get wired by IBM and they put in spaghetti wires where to this day 13 years later we have ethernet cables taped to the floor. We caused an outage by moving the cart in the server room over one of them. 1 million dollars!

    What makes matters worse is we can't fix the wiring EVER as we need 24 x 7 uptime as we have latin American call centers get routed through the spaghetti wiring on the floor to the dialer IVR. IBM couldn't have done a worse job!

    In 2002 companies consulted with IBM as they were deamed superior over competition even if they are ultra expensive. Today, they use Oracle or smaller companies and have learned the message. IBM is a has been from a different era.

    At least Oracle didn't buy them. That would enrage me to know end but still all the good people will be fired and outsourced by cheap Indians and Russians and it will go to die soon.

  23. Laughs on New SystemD Vulnerability Discovered (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    Goes back to working on some FreeBSD vms.

  24. Re: So what's the issue? on China, Russia Are Listening To Trump's Phone Calls, Says NYT Report (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    You mean like Mannafort and several others who pleaded guilty??! Jesus folks only watch Fox News I swear

  25. Re: Yes "her CRIMINAL emails" on China, Russia Are Listening To Trump's Phone Calls, Says NYT Report (thehill.com) · · Score: 0

    Everyone hates Trump besides Republicans. You got it backwards dude. Ask any European or Asian or Canadian what they think about him? Their answers will mirror the Democrats.

      It shows outside your Fox News and Rush Limbaugh and Hannity bubble that the New York Times is reputable and the country is run by a dangerous psychological Ill man with an IQ of 100 and incompetent but you refuse to see because he has an R next to his name