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  1. Not only that but Yahoo was offered nearly 50 billion as a buyout before she came on board. They are now selling for 4 billion. Not even a tenth of the previous value.

    10 years from now I'll be telling my son life isn't fair, here's the proof.

  2. There is no way it was her idea. She's being pressured by the board and likely Verizon also to start trying to save Yahoo's image. She's as phony as they come.

  3. Bonuses aren't really bonuses if they're incentives for doing more work.

    Spoken like someone who's never had a bonus. Do you even know wtf a bonus is for? Hint, it's not altruism.

  4. Re:All my friends in NSA are looking on NSA Risks Talent Exodus Amid Morale Slump, Trump Fears (reuters.com) · · Score: 1, Troll

    Almost every single one of them right now is quietly or not so quietly looking for other work. At least one of them has an undated resignation letter in their desk ready to go if they are asked to do anything that they find morally questionable (and this is someone who has generally defended NSA's actions in the past). The morale at NSA right now is in a massive slump.

    Yet they stayed after the Snowden leaks? Fuck your friend. Trump hasn't even hinted at anything like that yet your idiot NSA friend stuck it out through very real morale issues under Obama. Tell your shit stain friend his candidate lost and to grow some fucking balls and act like an adult. Do the job or get the fuck out. Or as my grandpa used to say "Shit or get off the pot"

  5. Re:Fuck twitter. on Twitter To Get Even Harsher On Trolls (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Twitter? You mean the internet company that doesn't understand the internet?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    No Thank You. I don't need a Trust and Safety council anymore than a Ministry of Truth.

    Its really fascinating to me to watch this. Twitter like the Democrat party is doubling down on all of the things that are responsible for their decline.

    When I was a teenager I was pulled over for speeding and had a list of excuses I decided to work through from top to bottom. After about 5 minutes the officer said to me calmly, "When you find yourself in a ditch the best thing to do is quit digging."

    A lesson Liberals desperately need to learn.

  6. Re:"I don't know what Net Neutrality is..." on FCC Chairman Calls Net Neutrality a 'Mistake' (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    "...but Obama was for it, so I know I'm against it."

    Under Obama I lost unlimited data and my cell phone bill tripled in 8 years. Trumps been in office for a month and Pai has had the FCC for a few weeks and my cellphone bill is down 40$ a month and I now have unlimited data again. So yes, Obama was for it and I am against it. Thank you Trump.

  7. Re:#MAGA on FCC Chairman Calls Net Neutrality a 'Mistake' (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Clearly we're going to Make America Great Again by getting rid of net neutrality.

    Clearly. Since Trump took office and Pai took the FCC my cellphone bill has gone down 40$ a month and I now have unlimited data vs the 2GB I had before. People keep talking about this being bad but all the evidence is pointing the other way.

  8. Russia on Amazon's Cloud Service Has Outage, Disrupting Sites (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1, Funny

    Russia did it

  9. We already have laws and regulations on corporations. What we need is competition as this article proves. Nothing incentivizes corps better than another corp nipping at their heels. Regulations usually do the opposite.

  10. Re:git was written when SHA-1 attacks were publish on Linus Torvalds On Git's Use Of SHA-1: 'The Sky Isn't Falling' (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Linus really has no sense of security. He'll use whatever is expedient over what's wise. It's a shame really.

  11. Re:But what about the other messaging services? on Google Renames Messenger To Android Messages as the Company Pushes RCS (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Hangouts? Allo? Duo?

    Are they getting this same feature?

    It's getting confusing with Google now with them spawning, killing or changing a messaging client so often....

    Don't worry they'll release a new one next year just to make things easier for everyone.

  12. Re:Leaving a bit out on Inside Uber's Aggressive, Unrestrained Workplace Culture (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Baseball bat would have been from Untouchables not Scarface.

  13. Re:The usual 2 Windows10 questions: on Microsoft Confirms Another 2017 Update After Windows 10 Creators Update (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Telemetry is not spyware.

    I beg to differ. In fact, places that deal with HIPAA and PCI compliance rules have to be crazy-OCD about this sort of stuff. On paper, it would seem that the mandatory telemetry could easily violate these regulations, and Microsoft refuses to give assurance or proof otherwise.

    Windows is racing Apple to see which can become wholly unsuitable in an enterprise environment first.

    What a load of bullshit. I have hundreds of HIPAA and PCI systems in my enterprise and Windows 10 never even comes up in the discussions with the compliance people. Stop making shit up just to fucking hate on Windows 10.

  14. When agile is done correctly you are right. But agile, like socialism, is always "perfect world" scenario stuff.

    To be fair Capitalism is also a "perfect world" scenario. You can paint it red (communism) or blue (capitalism), but what we have in reality is the very same modernized Feudalism.

    No, capitalism is self correcting. Capitalism acknowledges flaws but allows for markets to fix them. Socialism does not, can not and will not do so. What you're talking about is crony capitalism which is a mix of capitalism and socialism where government picks winners and losers.

  15. Re:The usual 2 Windows10 questions: on Microsoft Confirms Another 2017 Update After Windows 10 Creators Update (betanews.com) · · Score: 0

    1) Can I disable it?
    2) Does it remove the spyware?

    Microsoft, please get it: NOTHING ELSE matters to us concerning your Windows 10 updates.

    1) I don't want to disable it. I want updates, especially when they are free and provide security and usability enhancements.
    2) Define spyware. Telemetry is not spyware.

  16. Umm on University Offers Course To Help Sniff Out and Refute 'Bullshit' (engadget.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They already had this. It's called citing your sources and peer review. We also used to have open discussions but those got shut down in favor of safe spaces. Now you can't say shit without some snowflake getting their feelings hurt because, you know, feelings are more important than the truth and stuff.

  17. Re:Agile! on Microsoft Confirms Another 2017 Update After Windows 10 Creators Update (betanews.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    When agile is done correctly you are right. But agile, like socialism, is always "perfect world" scenario stuff. All too often management wants you to release early and often and miss the "fail quickly" component.

    Where I am now we're expected to release often with the same standard of QA we had with a traditional waterfall project management style. It just doesn't work, leads to higher stress, turn over and ultimately failure. Then you have the shops that want to apply agile to fucking everything from janitorial services to sales. This is the cookie cutter approach, or like my old boss used to say "Give the fuckers a hammer and suddenly everything looks like a nail"

    I'm just not impressed with agile. The quality of development the last 5 or so years from every shop I've seen use it has fallen sharply.

  18. Re:Ummm, Apple won the smartphone war. on ZDNet: Linux 'Takes The World' While Windows Dominates The Desktop (zdnet.com) · · Score: 0

    I hate that Apple is so dominant here. I really want to like and use Android but the truth is in the numbers. Every Android user I know at work is now going iPhone. The bugs, the slow updates, the lack of security, it's all broken them down. Apple has really nailed this and it shows in their profits.

  19. So this guy is harassing someone as to have sex with her. How is this sexism? Apart from the word being similar that is? Did he claim she is a lesser person because she is a woman?

    "I have a girlfriend who fucks other guys. I can't find a girl that will have me, since I'm your manager I'm going to hit on you and if you saw no there will be consequences, though I won't flat out say it. Oh and I can do this because I do not view you as an equal worth of respect"

    There is your answer.

  20. Re:Evidence needed on Former Engineer Says Uber Is a Nightmare of Sexism; CEO Orders Urgent Investigation (susanjfowler.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Considering that every scandal posted here during the last few years about sexism and harassment in the CS field turned out to be massively exaggerated at best and flat out fabricated at worst, I am going to ask for a little more evidence than personal statements in a blog.

    Not to mention that SV is already a SJW-infested Marxist hellhole which reduces the probability for such stud-like behaviour considerably already. (Not it does not mean it cannot happen, just that it is less likely than it happening on a cattle ranch in Texas for example)

    But is this "in the CS field"? It's a manager at a Taxi company that has an app. Other than the woman engineer, nothing about this is CS in any way.

  21. Re:This has to be a 4chan joke... on Former Engineer Says Uber Is a Nightmare of Sexism; CEO Orders Urgent Investigation (susanjfowler.com) · · Score: 1

    He was in an open relationship, he said, and his girlfriend was having an easy time finding new partners but he wasn't. He was trying to stay out of trouble at work, he said, but he couldn't help getting in trouble, because he was looking for women to have sex with. It was clear that he was trying to get me to have sex with him, and it was so clearly out of line that I immediately took screenshots of these chat messages and reported him to HR.

    No fucking way. This has got to be some kind of alt-right/4chan/cuck joke parody, right? Woman convinces beta male to have "open relationship" so she can fuck alphas on the side, SHOCKING beta with no game can't score, harasses actually capable women and helps ruin otherwise successful company.

    "Sluts and cucks ruin everything for everyone." This has to be a joke, right?

    I know a company President who took the entire VP/C-Suite to a photo studio one day for a photo shoot. To make sure the pictures turned out great he also brought along 4 or 5 girls from the Customer Care department who flashed their tits at them while they got their pictures taken.

    This same President hired half the girls for that department from Hooters where he often took people for business dinners. He was "in an open relationship" with his mail order bride. These people exist, they really do.

  22. Re: Layman's Terms on JavaScript Attack Breaks ASLR On 22 CPU Architectures (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    No I'm saying that if you don't know what something is get off your lazy fucking ass and look it up. Unless by "layman" you mean, "too fucking stupid to use a search engine "

  23. Re:Layman's Terms on JavaScript Attack Breaks ASLR On 22 CPU Architectures (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 0

    In layman's terms, this means an AnC attack can break ASLR...

    'cause every layman knows what ASLR is.

    Do you know what Google is? I know, it's hard right?

  24. Re:Market Forces Kill Coal on Utilities Vote To Close Largest Coal Plant In Western US (arstechnica.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    This demonstrates exactly how empty the campaign promises to bring back coal were. Nobody wants to burn coal when it's so much more expensive than everything else.

    By market forces you mean the immense pressure Obama put on the industry, choking it under regulations while giving huge tax breaks to other energy producers? The "market" had nothing to do with this. This is the very definition of crony capitalism. All they did was offload the costs from the renewable companies and place them onto the tax payer.

    If the market decided this I would be all for it but it just aint so.

  25. Re:C-Suite Attitudes on IT Decisions Makers and Executives Don't Agree On Cyber Security Responsibility (betanews.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    *no wrong... unlike we mere mortals who make typos

    Don't worry. Perfect spelling is no longer a requirement at the Department of Education.

    http://wqad.com/2017/02/12/education-department-misspells-tweet-corrects-error-with-another-typo/

    God forbid anyone make a fucking typo on twitter right? Fuck off you petty little bitch