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  1. 19 Senate Democrats... on Senate Bill to Block Net Neutrality Repeal Now Has 40 Co-Sponsors (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    haven't signed on yet. Just sad.

  2. > boss's favorite sport

    Like cricket especially if the company has a team. About 20% of our technical employees were hired only because of their cricket skills. Yes, it's really cool to watch us a small company beat up on larger companies at cricket, but day to day it sucks having to make-up for people that can't do their jobs.

  3. You are correct that the hours worked is important fact. I pulled our door badge logs a few months ago, and even with the report screwing-up and not counting men that worked more than 24 hours straight, men still worked about 106% longer hours than the women. I think the average for women was 36 hours a week and 74 hours a week for the male engineers. Of course the women are going to make less.

  4. No, because often it is required. We got nailed at work for hiring too many males even though we hired female candidates at a higher rate than males. We went over two years without being able to hire anyone decent because of that. It sucked interviewing one idiot after another and not being able to bring in any males. That really hurt the company, and it made my life much harder since I had to do the work of my entire five man team since we couldn't hire replacements for the people that quit to go to a new competitor.

  5. Re:Score yet another for MS quality control. on Microsoft's Meltdown and Spectre Patch Is Bricking Some AMD PCs (betanews.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    After firing the vast majority of their QA, why would they expect anything different than a massive drop in quality? They knew this would happen, but decided to do it anyway.

  6. Re:Solution is to hire more LGBT sales staff on Some Smartphone Salesmen Aren't Sold on the iPhone X (cnet.com) · · Score: 0

    And driver customers off? I work for a chain of restaurants mainly in the Seattle area, and our LGBTQP hires drove customers off. They didn't want, for example, pedophiles, to server them even if we elected one as mayor.

  7. Re: Wait a minute on Can You Install Linux On a 1993 PC? (yeokhengmeng.com) · · Score: 0

    Yes, because being in the bathroom closet versus just the bathroom makes it entirely different. /s

  8. Re:Wait a minute on Can You Install Linux On a 1993 PC? (yeokhengmeng.com) · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Is this a Hillary joke since she put her classified system in a bathroom of a condo where the property management company and their employees had access to it which was illegal?

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3201367/Hillary-s-email-firm-run-loft-apartment-servers-BATHROOM-raising-new-questions-security-sensitive-messages-held.html

  9. Re:Systemd on Can You Install Linux On a 1993 PC? (yeokhengmeng.com) · · Score: 0

    And you won't have the problem of systemd swallowing stdout and stderr messages. It just sucks how systemd has made it so much harder to troubleshoot booting and service starting problems.

  10. Re:More proof we need more laws... on Kansas 'Swat' Perpetrator Had Already Been To Prison For Fake Bomb Threats (go.com) · · Score: 1

    > certainty of being caught

    I think you're right, but I understand my bias since I live in Seattle where the cops let criminals usually get away with stealing cars and breaking and entering. The criminals here are pretty bold since they know at best it's going to take hours for the police to respond and at worst, they'll probably be let free since the prosecutors often don't press charges.

  11. More proof we need more laws... on Kansas 'Swat' Perpetrator Had Already Been To Prison For Fake Bomb Threats (go.com) · · Score: 1

    to make this even more illegal.

  12. I'd wish they'd fix their software even more than getting money back. My entire weekend is going to be wasted trying to install KB4056890. Looks like it's going to take through the weekend to update 21 servers since Microsoft's update keeps failing, and I have to keep hitting retry. Security updates shouldn't be so unreliable.

  13. Re:Transmeta is perfection! on Linus Torvalds Says Intel Needs To Admit It Has Issues With CPUs (itwire.com) · · Score: 1

    Wrong, he works for the Linux Foundation, and has since IIRC 2013.

  14. This is a good sign for Bitcoin on Bitcoin Debit Cards Suspended After Upstream Visa Rules Infraction (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    First there is denial, then push back, then finally acceptance.

  15. Re:Because they are waffling on own standards on Why Twitter Hasn't Banned President Trump (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Exactly. He didn't threaten that or even imply that, but all thinking people know what Trump thinks.

  16. Re:I must be missing something on Don't Pirate Or We'll Mess With Your Connected Thermostats, Warns East Coast ISP (engadget.com) · · Score: 2

    I've helped four members of our management setup nest thermostats and security cameras. Three of them have around 750 kbps DSL (supposed to be up to 1.5 Mbps, but Frontier around here sucks), and the cameras worked just fine. Even the spec page:

    https://nest.com/support/article/Are-there-any-issues-with-streaming-Nest-Cam-over-a-mobile-Wi-Fi-hotspot

    Says "It requires 200kb/s (0.2Mbps) of bandwidth on average, but can reach up to as much as 500kb/s" The thermostat should be a tiny fraction of that.

  17. If bandwidth throttling breaks your thermostat... on Don't Pirate Or We'll Mess With Your Connected Thermostats, Warns East Coast ISP (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    you're doing something wrong. But seriously, I worked on environmental control systems in the early 80s that used 56k dedicated lines. Even then, bandwidth wasn't a problem.

  18. Re:Was I supposed to take that as a negative? on Apple Product Delays Have More Than Doubled Under Tim Cook's Watch, Says Report (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Ouch. Hey, 1983 was my best year. Wish I could go back.

  19. > aggressive use of speculative execution to keep as much of the chip working at any given time as possible.

    Which is necessary for Windows because it is so slow. Intel has to work hard to keep their CPUs fast enough to run the newest version of Windows.

  20. Re:Was I supposed to take that as a negative? on Apple Product Delays Have More Than Doubled Under Tim Cook's Watch, Says Report (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    > suck until v2.0.

    Well, Microsoft didn't even add support for directories until version 2 of DOS, so this isn't a new problem.

  21. Re:States' Rights on What Happens When States Have Their Own Net Neutrality Rules? (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I disagree strongly. States making-up stupid and different rules just to be different is a huge barrier to entry, and it really helps the large companies like AT&T and Comcast prevent competition. The states are killing competition.

  22. Just sad how much worse... on Oceans Suffocating as Huge Dead Zones Quadruple Since 1950, Scientists Warn (theguardian.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    things have gotten since Trump took over. Just look at the climate change on the east coast. We have more than a dozen employees stuck at airports because of Trump. He is destroying our economy with this. Obama was correct that Trump will destroy the economy in his first year.

  23. Re:Same Ol' Argument... on It's So Cold Outside That Sharks Are Actually Freezing to Death (vice.com) · · Score: 0

    No, because global warming is settled science so any evidence otherwise must be wrong.

  24. Why is a tech site... on In a Declining Comics Market, DC Beats Marvel (hollywoodreporter.com) · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    reporting on cartoon books for little boys? This is offtopic.

  25. Re:After the last one bricked tons of computers on Microsoft's Fall Creators Update Already on More Than Half of All Windows 10 PCs (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    None of our ~150 Windows 10 machines bricked, but they all took over a week to install the update while the computer was unusably slow. Microsoft cost us a lot of productivity and a couple of customers.