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  1. Re:Not the only one at blame on Civil Servant Watching Porn At Work Blamed For Government Malware Outbreak (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    His manager, who didn't realize thus guy is spending a lot of time not working

    The network support, who didn't notice high band with use and try to figure if it was legit

    His coworkers who almost certainly knew he wasn't working

  2. Re:It seemed to me that programming became less fu on With Few US Students Taking CS Classes, Code.org 'Scales Back' Funding For CS Education (acm.org) · · Score: 1

    I resisted .NET for a long time on personal projects. Last month I started something ambitious, in C#, and I can crank out piles of functionality. Who needs to memorize when you have Google and stack overflow? And of course you can put ASM in a .dll and P/Invoke if you need the speed, but it's rare.

    Coding slowly is not fun. Reusing tested code to save time is fun.

  3. What will drive the next refresh? on It Was Flat Sales That Helped Microsoft Become America's #5 PC Maker (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    New Windows versions have dictated hardware refresh up to now. With Windows 10 being the last version, there's no line in the sand. Hardware is good enough. You don't need faster at this point, the bottlenecks are external. Especially office work.

    They are going to have to make software even more bloated to encourage hardware buys, or expect that division to suffer.

  4. Suse can. Other distros that have an owning body joined to OIN can.

    Linux as a whole has not joined. It they have, I'm wrong and they can.

  5. Re:Microsoft: Insufficient management, poor manage on Microsoft Rereleases Windows 10 October 2018 Update, Fixes Data Deletion Bug (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    More like too many managers, not enough management.

  6. Re:I Cant Believe People Run Windows 10 on Microsoft Rereleases Windows 10 October 2018 Update, Fixes Data Deletion Bug (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    For the record, Bill Gates was repeatedly infuriated by Windows as CEO. Updates requiring restart was a big one. I'm sure he has strong opinions on Windows 10, and not in a good way.

    The shareholders know what's going on. They only care about whether this makes someone jump ship. Which it won't.

  7. They also do not have to license things like Android from the other members. It's likely a financial decision.

  8. Re:Hard No on Uber CEO: We're Going After Groceries Next (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    Looks like you're not the target audience.

  9. Re:I don't care if it was 700 or 70,000 or 70,000, on Microsoft Rereleases Windows 10 October 2018 Update, Fixes Data Deletion Bug (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    My favorite trick is recursively calling rd for all folders. Only the empty ones get deleted, because "directory not empty".

    They literally wrote the code to do it safely, but duplicated it elsewhere incorrectly.

    Microsoft, where reusing code is harder than one might think.

  10. Re:It's a trap! on Scientists Are Working To Eliminate Senescent Cells (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    More often than not? Want to back that up? A few examples that stand out are not enough for you to think this.

  11. Re:This is silly. on National Theater In London Offers Glasses With Live Subtitles (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    You're insisting that the theatre went with this design after taking a look at only this option? Or that there were better options and it chose the expensive one, when it has to eat the costs?

    You're cynical, but not smart enough to use it properly. This is nonsense.

    Simple mirrors are the same problem as projecting text above the screen, except you have breakable objects st every seat. Finger smudges that have to be cleaned after every performance. This solution allows the viewer to look directly at any part of the stage, and have the text stay in the same predictable location. Like tv subtitles. Consider displaying t.v. subtitles on the wall above the display.

    Think before you cynic.

  12. Re:This is silly. on National Theater In London Offers Glasses With Live Subtitles (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Instead of a third party developing these and selling them to individuals, the National Theatre apparently ate the cost of development. And is not charging a fee for them.

    Profit was not the motive. Improvement was. They can patent the idea and/or sell the system to other theatres if it catches on but that doesn't seem to be the goal.

    Theatre is not known as being a hot spot for tech entrepreneurs, nor profit generation.

  13. Why not go find out and then let us know? It's not like you're crowd funding here, just wait until you have news.

  14. Re:Watching the video. BlackBerry Blend for Androi on Microsoft Announces App Mirroring To Let You Use Any Android App On Windows 10 · · Score: 1

    Not a desktop. Surface or other tablet with touch interface is the target. And some people might like to access the same tools whatever device they are on st the time. But mostly Surface users with Android phones.

  15. Re:Patents on The Story of Starlite, the 'Blast Proof' Material (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    And he was a very good violin maker. Dense wood and quality craftsmanship. I'm sure he had a few custom tools that he invented or improved, and a few assistants who worked on scrub wood until they were ready for the good stuff.

    Around that time, his was the best product. And the reputation stuck even after people had better tools that made the average builder better, And the better builders strad quality. But they didn't have the dense wood.

  16. Re:printf() may not work for multithreaded problem on Eric S. Raymond Identifies A Common Programming Trap: 'Shtoopid' Problems (ibiblio.org) · · Score: 1

    I would assume that printf is thread safe on at least some operating systems, printing the whole message and blocking other calls. That would force thread synchronization with the mutex present but hidden. Especially on Windows, where they do a lot to protect users against bad code, without much outside input in those decisions.

  17. That's not a coding error. on Coding Error Sends 2019 Subaru Ascents To the Car Crusher (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    That's not a coding error.

  18. You're wrong. Linus Torvalds believes you are wrong, and he is not going to continue being wrong.

    You have a point that systemd should be told to piss off. And I'm sure the new Linus will be able to tell deserving people, in his own way, to sod off.

    If Linus thought it were a good approach he would not be seeking help.

    Now go eat a cock you subhuman dick eating shit for brains idiot.

  19. Re:Cause or effect? on Do Data Breaches Affect Stock Performance in the Long Run? (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Underperforming comes from buying credit monitoring for those affected, extra PR advertising, and hiring competent people so when it happens again you can say you tried. Probably lots of time spent with law enforcement, and overtime to rebuild servers asap.

    It isn't huge, but it is noticeable. And likely things like putting some money aside for the inevitable lawsuit, keep reminding investors that a potential large payout exists.

    Surely they have some sort of insurance, which if they claim will increase in price. So yeah cause.

  20. In what way is this a security problem? You see the base domain, what difference is www or m?

  21. You're solving the wrong problem. People in power want to throw poor people in jail with video evidence. They also want to be able to afford expensive lawyers to plant doubt that a video shows the objective truth.

    When politics gets involved with tech, it is all about self preservation and persecution.

  22. Re:This is a good thing on The 'Post-PC Era' Never Really Happened... and Likely Won't (techpinions.com) · · Score: 1

    Someone alert Microsoft so they can put back keyboard based functionality. Windows 10 just makes it slower to interact with the software.

    No I don't use a mouse at all if I can do it that way. Yes I'm faster than you.

  23. Those things you do frequently. Most people don't do that ever. Basic mode is the stuff everyone needs to find quickly, yes even if they just use it once.

  24. Re:Seems to miss the mark entirely on Amazon Reportedly Planning a Free, Ad-supported Video Service for Fire TV Owners (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Pay for the broadband, get content and advertising.

    It's literally cable but for the web.

  25. That's not an explanation. If you replace a car with an immovable object, the impact would be the same as one car vs. immovable object. If you replace one car with a teddy bear, the impact would be the same as a car vs. a teddy bear.

    Only in a direct head on collision, with two similarly weighted vehicles, where they both essentially come to an immediate halt, is that true.

    Most likely the victim tried to swerve out of the way, adding rotational forces and an indirect collision, making it worse.