>> walk off the job on Friday afternoon for a three day strike
How is this different than hitting the weekend 2 hours early? Is it that managers (non-union) have to fill in shifts over the weekend somewhere or what?
>> AT&T is facing the possibility of closed stores
What stores? Are there still really"retail phone" stores operating somewhere in the USA?
Thanks for the clarification. I try to stay up on foreign affairs but the current shitstorms have rendered most articles useless with unnamed informants, sketchy recollections of what someone thought someone else wrote or said, and strained attempts to tie possibly unrelated things together. It's kind of scary that SlashDot's more valuable as a traditional news source (kind of like the Daily Show was back in the day) than as a tech source (since it lags tech news by a day or more) these days.
>> meeting was requested by EU officials after recent reports suggested US authorities had new information regarding laptop parts being turned into explosives
Wasn't "laptops can be bombs m'kay" the classified info Trump supposedly gave to the Russians (and that currently has media outlets' panties' in various bundles).
Microdosing seems to be a type of homeopathy (ingesting extremely small quantities of things to elicit a response) that uses pharmaceutical or recreational drugs.
Generally seems to be a thing for morons with money to burn.
>> How about your company's team (with the prod. servers) does their job, then? And tests and Rolls out the updates BEFORE Windows update automatically installs it.
So...Windows shouldn't be used by small or medium-sized business without IT workstation teams then?
This is a question? Google won ON PRICE: free (or dirt-cheap-compared-to-Microsoft) online office suites and cheap (especially compared to Apple) tablets.
This popped out of the Chrome project, if I'm reading this right. From: https://github.com/google/oss-fuzz/
>> Currently OSS-Fuzz supports C and C++ code (other languages supported by LLVM may work too). >> We (did) fuzzing of Chrome components...now want to share the...service with the open source community.
>> or twice that amount ($40K), if the proceeds are donated to a charity.
1) Create some horribly insecure OSS software 2) Set up charity, make self "director", limit payouts to cause to under 5%, set director fees to around 90% 3) Integrate Google fuzz, report self and payout to, er, "charity" 4) PROFIT!
>> The company has since gone into liquidation but the ICO said it was committed to recovering the fine
Yes, it's called "sue the hand" - transfer the assets (what was liquidated) to another legal container and leave behind a shell without any assets to accrue the hits from regulators, plantiffs, etc.
I'd pay $50 for a final "never try upgrading this PC to Anniversary Edition" fix. The forced upgrades when they fail again and again and again and again and again is a huge pain.
Of these 5, Amazon and Apple are now optional for businesses. Maybe Facebook too if you sell B2B.
Anything Amazon sells in its web services is now also available from Google. Anything Amazon sells is available elsewhere for similar cost.
Apple is only needed if you absolutely want to publish your own i-app. If you just do business through a website, though, they're a luxury.
You still need Google for marketing your offerings, and you still need Facebook if you market to consumers (although other social media is becoming more relevant/cost-effective), and you still need Microsoft (Office) if you exchange business-related docx, xlsx and pptx files.
I remember there were a few electronics kits you could buy in the 1980's that did the same trick with pencil "lead". First, you scribbled onto some paper, then you attached a lead and pressed onto the graphite square you drew to make different sounds, etc.
So there were TWO of them then? https://science.slashdot.org/story/17/05/07/2136253/after-almost-two-years-the-air-forces-mysterious-x-37b-space-plane-lands
I can't wait until AI takes over the job of "SlashDot Editor"...
>> it has been a long time since a soup-to-nuts approach has worked for enterprise tech companies
If you were subject to as many sales pitches from large vendors as I am, you would know that Amazon, Google, IBM and Oracle all offer "full stack" PaaS services including table-based DBs, nosql DBs, ESBs/queuing, application runtime environments, etc. In fact, the term "Cloud 3.0" is being used by a bunch of them to describe their soup-to-nuts PaaS solution.
Slashdot Mirror
>> walk off the job on Friday afternoon for a three day strike
How is this different than hitting the weekend 2 hours early? Is it that managers (non-union) have to fill in shifts over the weekend somewhere or what?
>> AT&T is facing the possibility of closed stores
What stores? Are there still really"retail phone" stores operating somewhere in the USA?
>> 'impenetrable boundary,' a phrase coined by study co-author Dan Baker
Or anyone who's forgotten their wife's birthday. Amirite?
Thanks for the clarification. I try to stay up on foreign affairs but the current shitstorms have rendered most articles useless with unnamed informants, sketchy recollections of what someone thought someone else wrote or said, and strained attempts to tie possibly unrelated things together. It's kind of scary that SlashDot's more valuable as a traditional news source (kind of like the Daily Show was back in the day) than as a tech source (since it lags tech news by a day or more) these days.
>> meeting was requested by EU officials after recent reports suggested US authorities had new information regarding laptop parts being turned into explosives
Wasn't "laptops can be bombs m'kay" the classified info Trump supposedly gave to the Russians (and that currently has media outlets' panties' in various bundles).
Sir, I don't understand. Who needs a knife in a nuke fight anyway?
#SlashDot dups because liberal editor herp derp scum! True #patriots never double-post. Sad.
>> MP3 is not dead
Er...why would it be? This is how music is stored, shared and played for the most part, isn't it?
>> a suggestion that we move to a newer, still-patented format
I don't believe that Ogg Vorbis is patented. That's the next logical place to move, isn't it?
Microdosing seems to be a type of homeopathy (ingesting extremely small quantities of things to elicit a response) that uses pharmaceutical or recreational drugs.
Generally seems to be a thing for morons with money to burn.
>> How about your company's team (with the prod. servers) does their job, then? And tests and Rolls out the updates BEFORE Windows update automatically installs it.
So...Windows shouldn't be used by small or medium-sized business without IT workstation teams then?
Microsoft, can you confirm?
Or the Windows 10 update doesn't work and keeps downloading/restarting/bluescreening your computer. (Looking at you, "Anniversary" edition.)
>> How Google Conquered The American Classroom.
This is a question? Google won ON PRICE: free (or dirt-cheap-compared-to-Microsoft) online office suites and cheap (especially compared to Apple) tablets.
As opposed to the candidate whose official site allowed people to phish their friends?
http://cybertical.com/clinton-phishing.html
>> OpenHatch was a non-profit that organized free tutorials ...how to get involved in open source...it is closing its doors
You're kidding me - an open source project fizzled out because no one wanted to write the docs? Never heard that before...
This popped out of the Chrome project, if I'm reading this right. From:
https://github.com/google/oss-fuzz/
>> Currently OSS-Fuzz supports C and C++ code (other languages supported by LLVM may work too).
>> We (did) fuzzing of Chrome components...now want to share the...service with the open source community.
>> or twice that amount ($40K), if the proceeds are donated to a charity.
1) Create some horribly insecure OSS software
2) Set up charity, make self "director", limit payouts to cause to under 5%, set director fees to around 90%
3) Integrate Google fuzz, report self and payout to, er, "charity"
4) PROFIT!
>> The company has since gone into liquidation but the ICO said it was committed to recovering the fine
Yes, it's called "sue the hand" - transfer the assets (what was liquidated) to another legal container and leave behind a shell without any assets to accrue the hits from regulators, plantiffs, etc.
>> Azure Goes Database Crazy With One New NoSQL, Two New SQL Services
The best part about standards is that there are so many different ones to choose from. Wheee!
> How One Little Cable Company Exposed Telecom's Achilles' Heel
Your clickbait mind tricks will never work. The day before I read TFA before I start commenting is the day I turn in my SlashDot ID.
"Have you not considered how much easier it is to control a walking population?"
I'd pay $50 for a final "never try upgrading this PC to Anniversary Edition" fix. The forced upgrades when they fail again and again and again and again and again is a huge pain.
Of these 5, Amazon and Apple are now optional for businesses. Maybe Facebook too if you sell B2B.
Anything Amazon sells in its web services is now also available from Google. Anything Amazon sells is available elsewhere for similar cost.
Apple is only needed if you absolutely want to publish your own i-app. If you just do business through a website, though, they're a luxury.
You still need Google for marketing your offerings, and you still need Facebook if you market to consumers (although other social media is becoming more relevant/cost-effective), and you still need Microsoft (Office) if you exchange business-related docx, xlsx and pptx files.
Chrome adds feature
found in all others
SlashDot loves it
They're Google lovers
Burma-Shave
I remember there were a few electronics kits you could buy in the 1980's that did the same trick with pencil "lead". First, you scribbled onto some paper, then you attached a lead and pressed onto the graphite square you drew to make different sounds, etc.
So there were TWO of them then?
https://science.slashdot.org/story/17/05/07/2136253/after-almost-two-years-the-air-forces-mysterious-x-37b-space-plane-lands
I can't wait until AI takes over the job of "SlashDot Editor"...
>> it has been a long time since a soup-to-nuts approach has worked for enterprise tech companies
If you were subject to as many sales pitches from large vendors as I am, you would know that Amazon, Google, IBM and Oracle all offer "full stack" PaaS services including table-based DBs, nosql DBs, ESBs/queuing, application runtime environments, etc. In fact, the term "Cloud 3.0" is being used by a bunch of them to describe their soup-to-nuts PaaS solution.