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  1. Re:Screw WoSign on Microsoft Dumps Notorious Chinese Secure Certificate Vendor (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    If you setup Let's Encrypt right, it will automatically renew and install continuously without manual intervention.

  2. Re:You got to look at the reasons behind outsourci on New Data On H-1B Visas Prove That IT Outsourcers Hire a Lot But Pay Very Little (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    sometimes I only get 500$ a month to live on

    But how much do you normally get?

  3. 2. There is an easy fix, actually: set minimum H-1B salaries to $10,000 per month

    That doesn't work, I know from people who left here to go work in the states on H1B that they don't receive their full salary because things like company housing, company healthcare benefits are counted as part of their salary. The value is somewhat dictated by the employer since they are the provider that you agree to when signing the contract.

  4. Re: Labour Protectionism is not the answer on New Data On H-1B Visas Prove That IT Outsourcers Hire a Lot But Pay Very Little (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm solidly a free trader...but your working from a bad premise. I'm a consultant that works with companies of all types, including the big tech companies, and my experience is that overall fewer than 2 in 10 H1b workers are "highly skilled". It's really unbelievable how bad the situation is.

    I live in Belfast and it's unbelievable how anyone who has slightly any tech smarts in universities end up going on a H1B visa to the states. It's left Northern Ireland starved for tech talent, to the point that most of the tech workers you see are very incompetent over here because there are very few left. I'm not saying these people are geniuses, but it's scary that even the 'average' tech talent is getting gobbled up here by H1B visas.

  5. Re:If only the drivers were unionized on Uber Drivers Gang Up To Cause Surge Pricing, Research Says (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Supposedly, they could unionize... It just wouldn't change their relationship with Uber though.

  6. Re:Developer Laziness on Where's All My CPU and Memory Gone? The Answer: $5B Worth Slack App (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    For Java, you've ignored the libraries you'll use once, just for that app.

    But it was the same in the 90s.

    You've also ignored the tens of megabytes of runtime state.

    Still same in the 90s, none of it is included with the application.

    Size of the binary is the least important size

    But you said:

    you get megabytes of code, libraries, and other unnecessaries that add up to astonishingly inefficient use of resources

    The code isn't "megabytes", there isn't unnecessary libraries being called by my code.

  7. Re:Developer Laziness on Where's All My CPU and Memory Gone? The Answer: $5B Worth Slack App (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    Compile "Hello World" on a modern platform and you get megabytes of code, libraries, and other unnecessaries that add up to astonishingly inefficient use of resources.

    I don't with Visual Studio C++ or C#, Java or GCC/G++ either?

    Explain.

  8. Re:Ooh. 1.5 GB. Is that supposed to be big? on Where's All My CPU and Memory Gone? The Answer: $5B Worth Slack App (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    My motherboard maxes out at 8GB, fuck you.

    Sounds like you're a Mac user, Mac users need to buy a new Mac to upgrade the amount of RAM available.

  9. Re:Thinking about it on FreeBSD 11.1 Released (freebsd.org) · · Score: 1

    Have you ever tried switching between Debian/Ubuntu and Fedora/RHEL/CentOS?

    Yeah.

    Bloody hell, it's Linux right? How different could they be? Turns out the answer is a lot.

    Not really that different. Most of the userland is the same, your local user directory is pretty portable from one to another without your applications losing their settings etc. At most the typical user is going to see a difference in package manager.

  10. Re:Jodie Whittaker on Doctor Who's 13th Time Lord Announced: Actress Jodie Whittaker (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Being that the Doctor is the hero of the show, creating a new character that is his equal will not be good for the show.

    The grand parent was talking about creating a new show, not merely a new character.

  11. Re:You can't have a female James T. Kirk on Doctor Who's 13th Time Lord Announced: Actress Jodie Whittaker (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    No, they're another species.

  12. Re: Two problems? on Researchers Have Developed A Battery-Free Mobile Phone (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    They also forgot about the little problem of it being illegal. Taking power from random transmissions to power a device is not any more legal than cutting into you neighbors power lines to power your fridge (in most jurisdictions at least, I know for sure about Germany).

    Why aren't crystal radios illegal in Germany then?

  13. Re: You mean systemd must assimilate OpenBSD? on OpenBSD Will Get Unique Kernels On Each Reboot (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Gentoo is pretty terrible... Just look at the quality of packages in Portage for one. Slackware does a better job despite being vanilla tarballs which says something.

  14. Service Guarentees Citizenship on Chicago To Make Future Plans a Graduation Requirement (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    Would you like to know more?_

  15. Re:True meaning of the cloud on Customer's 20-Year-Old Email Account Shut Down Over Unusual Address (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    What do they eat?

    They feed on the tears of millenials.

  16. Re:True meaning of the cloud on Customer's 20-Year-Old Email Account Shut Down Over Unusual Address (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    Now your just using buzzwords.

    I'm serious, I run my own IaaS, PaaS and SaaS solutions internally - Some as you might imagine, are nested cloud solutions even.

  17. Re:True meaning of the cloud on Customer's 20-Year-Old Email Account Shut Down Over Unusual Address (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    Once again, someone finds out the hard way that "the cloud" means "someone else's servers."

    I run my own cloud though... How is that "someone else's servers"?

  18. Re:slashdot did the same sort of thing on Customer's 20-Year-Old Email Account Shut Down Over Unusual Address (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 2

    Have you tried using the following username to login?

    %4010u8

  19. Re:There is no cloud on Amazon and eBay Images Broken By Photobucket's 'Ransom Demand' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    There is no cloud -- it's just someone else's computer

    But I run my own cloud, how is that someone else's?

  20. Re:Benefit of requiring sites to be usable over 14 on Forced Arbitration Isn't 'Forced' Because No One Has To Buy Service, Says AT&T (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    If a particular data rate becomes a standard, then site operators are going to have to either make their sites practical to use at the standard rate or be shamed for not complying with standards.

    Didn't happen when a similar rule was implemented in Poland, Czech Republic or Hungary. Can't imagine it working in the US either, where companies really seem to do a lot of bad jobs considering government legislation. It's not like most US government sites would struggle to comply though... A lot of them feel like they were built in the 90s, even the new ones like ETSA's revamp.

  21. Re:Internet access needs to be utility on Forced Arbitration Isn't 'Forced' Because No One Has To Buy Service, Says AT&T (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    we desperately need Internet access to be a public utility in the US.

    Done, wish has been granted. 14k dial up Internet is now considered a public utility. The minimum standard has been set.

  22. Re:One has to hand it to the systemd team on 'Severe' Systemd Bug Allowed Remote Code Execution For Two Years (itwire.com) · · Score: 1

    As KISS basically says "make it as simple as possible, but not simpler", the kernel is actually not a KISS violation.

    The KISS principle is "Keep It Simple Stupid". There is plenty of unnecessary complexity in the kernel, just look at udev's implementation for one.

  23. Re: And the sheriff doesn't understand? on Seeking YouTube Fame, A Teenager Kills Her Boyfriend (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Professional diplomatic bodyguards are a special use case

    Don't need to be one in Northern Ireland.

    Since the late 60's self defence is not considered a valid reason for firearms ownership.

    You're confusing Great Britain with the UK.

  24. Re:And the sheriff doesn't understand? on Seeking YouTube Fame, A Teenager Kills Her Boyfriend (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    ...should be refused on the grounds that firearms are not an acceptable means of protection in Great Britain...

    So that being the case, what grounds did you make your application on?

    I live in Northern Ireland, not Great Britain - Both of which are in the UK.

  25. Re:And the sheriff doesn't understand? on Seeking YouTube Fame, A Teenager Kills Her Boyfriend (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    In the UK you can't own a gun for self defence

    Please stop lying. I live in the UK and my Firearms License for my Personal Protection weapon allows me to use it for self-defense as is stated on my firearms license.