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  1. Why are they investing in research when... on Microsoft Teases HoloLens 2 (cnet.com) · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    the start menu in Windows 10 often takes twenty+ minutes to show? They should invest in things that help most of their users.

  2. Re:No it won't. on Trump's Border Wall Could Split SpaceX's Texas Launchpad In Two (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    They didn't have 60 in the Senate to beat a fillibuster, so your point isn't valid.

  3. Re:It's Pelosi, not Trump on Government Shutdown: TLS Certificates Not Renewed, Many Websites Are Down (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    They're paying for some of it thorugh the NAFTA renogotiation so as much as I hate Trump, he is at least partially correct.

  4. I'd kill to have 1.5 Mbps down. I think that's too high of a goal right now.

  5. I copied a 2 GB file, and it took nearly threee weeks. It finally completed and the md5sum checked out, but that's ridiculous. I don't need to access our Windows file share often, but some of my coworkers do. It's driving them nuts.

  6. There's an add-on named LookOut (fixed version) for Thunderbird that handles attachments form Microsoft. I work for a company that is now doing some vendor work for Microsoft, so we had to either switch to Outlook or find a solution that worked with a standard email client. Fortunately, that add-on exists and was recently fixed.

  7. Re: Perfect democrats on California Gives Final OK To Require Solar Panels On New Houses (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    And environmental studies. We have an office in San Mateo, and our main investor decided to develop a dozen townhomes to replace two houses. The environmetal study cost more than the townhouses cost to build.

  8. Re:If you want an iPhone on Apple To Drop iPhone XR Price in Japan Amid Weak Sales (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    I did a search for kit on store.apple.com, and while there are some results, none of them are kits. I miss the days when you could buy a kit and assembly it.

  9. Re:Ajit Pai flails at windmills for your amusement on Ajit Pai Wants To Raise Rural Broadband Speeds From 10Mbps To 25Mbps (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Same here in Seattle. Well, assuming you can even get Comcast since they don't offer service to their entire monopoly area. It's worse when Comcast doesn't offer service and the phone monopoly doesn't have your address in their system.

    A friend finally got around that and has 1.5 Mbps DSL now since he ordered a POTS line. His house was built on a lot that was split, and his street number has a B but CenturyLink didn't have it in their system. They're legally obgligated by the state to provide phone service so after complaining to the state, they connected the existing wiring to give him a phone line. He canceled it a few minutes after they got it working then ordered DSL.

  10. Re:IMNAL, but this seems right on Russia Wants DNC Hack Lawsuit Thrown Out, Citing International Conventions (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Wrong. Marc Elias was general counsel for Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign who paid the Russians to spy. It was not Hillary.

  11. SQL Server's very annoying proprietary stored proc language is annoyoing as hell, so your "least annoying" comment shows just how annoying other SQL servers are. It's sad.

  12. And if fixing it is hard, then they would disable the 30 minute reboot if they cared.

    It sucks that it takes so long to load SQL Server, Visual Studio, etc. to start working then you work for about ten minutes then Windows reboots.

  13. Re:NO ONE wants it on California Voters Embrace Year-Round Daylight-Saving Time (sfchronicle.com) · · Score: 1

    I disagree. Most people want light after work instead of before they wake up.

    Either way, this change is going to suck since a lot of people use LA time. Even Linux has decided to make you pick a city rather than a timezone. This is going to suck for everyone I know in Seattle where we had to pick LA time and now LA time is moving to mountain time.

  14. Re:Confounders? on Does Eating Organic Food Help Prevent Cancer? (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Plus what food doesn't contain carbon? Avoiding food that doesn't contain carbon is pretty much something every human has ever tried to do.

  15. Re:Like a technological Trump Bomb on New Windows Zero-Day Bug Helps Delete Any File, Exploit Available (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I think you're correct since as Saul Alinsky said, "Accuse the Other Side of That Which You Are Guilty." It's just sad how often our side fakes crap in order to try to appear as the victim.

  16. McDonald's on 85th just up the hill on Redmond Way (which becomes 85th) from Redmond is paying up to $18 an hour starting and offers referral bonuses. Two friends that used to work for vendors at Microsoft now work there. Microsoft is literally losing people to McDonald's now.

  17. Re:There is nothing to notice on Researcher Finds Simple Way of Backdooring Windows PCs and Nobody Notices for Ten Months (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Or can change UIDs in /etc/passwd. That's the Linux equivalent of this.

  18. Re:That sucks big time. on Microsoft Co-Founder Paul Allen Dies of Cancer At Age 65 (cnbc.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Like his computer museum and WWII air museum in the Seattle area. It's still sad he was forced out of Microsoft in 1982. The world would be a much different place if he had gotten his way of fixing problems with existing products instead of adding new features, or worse, Gate's style vaporware.

  19. It's more than a list of limits on the government. It's a list of some of our inalienable rights as men.

  20. Re:Always surprising considering few configuration on Apple Releases iOS 12.0.1 With Fixes For Wi-Fi 2.4GHz Bug, Lightning Charging Issue (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    From what I've seen of charging problems, that wasn't a software issue. Lightning connectors after a few months of use just get so loose after a few months that when the phone vibrates due to a notification, it can knock the charging cable loose. Where I work, we maintain a couple of iOS apps so we have about a dozen different devices used for testing. The older ones with the more secure 30-pin connectors never have a problem, but about half of the time I try to use a newer device, the lightning connector has come loose and the battery dead.

  21. No, those are not default passwords so they don't count. cisco has backdoor passwords.

  22. Re:"first choice at universities" on Python Displaces C++ In TIOBE Index Top 3 (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    > Oracle is going to kill the goose

    After releasing Java 9 last Sept then deprecating it in March then releasing 10 in March and deprecating it this month, it's a pain to keep up with Java. For corporate code that needs to last many years, Java has become a not good solution when that was previously it's most important attribute.

  23. Re:Same as 2017 on 'State of JavaScript 2018' Survey Announced (stateofjs.com) · · Score: 1

    This. Having to do this:


    function test() { ...
    }

    if(typeof(window) !== "undefined") {
            window.test = test;
    }

    sometimes window isn't defined so you have to test for it. The weird !== with two equals shouldn't be needed. Finally, a function should just work. You shouldn't have to do the window.test thing.

  24. "global public conversation." on Facebook, Twitter Execs Admit Failures, Warn of 'Overwhelming' Threat To Elections (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 2

    That's BS. If that was true they wouldn't ban so many thousands of users each day. My last Twitter account was created less than two weeks ago, and it's already been banned. I never even posted anything. I just clicked follow on a few friends.

  25. This was happening long before Snowden. Remember the objections to Clinton's Clipper chip?

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_chip

    Clinton proposed it in 1993, but by 1996 it was already dead. Even then the Internet reacted quickly to oppose this.