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  1. Re:That's so Jewish on iPhone X Costs Apple $370 in Materials: IHS Markit (ihsmarkit.com) · · Score: 1

    I charge at least $1500/hour, $6000/hour if you don't know electronics decently.

  2. Are you actually under the insane impression that Gamergate is remotely innocent?

    You're saying we shouldn't trust all the authorities that investigated and found nothing of consequence and not treat it as such? If they have done something illegal, I implore you to expose them, with the full evidence that will lead to their prosecution.

  3. US 5732138 A on How Cloudflare Uses Lava Lamps To Encrypt the Internet (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Are they licensed for US 5732138 A patent usage?

  4. Re:So now its three incoherent words plus 200 Emoj on Twitter Officially Expands Its Character Count To 280 Starting Today (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Please provide a list of ten insightful people to follow.

  5. If they are doing this to independent contractors they are opening themselves up for all kinds of issues, at least in the US.

    When I used to do jobs on odesk (now called upwork), they had software that would take a picture every X minutes of my desktop. I was happy with it because it prevented employers from wiggling out saying I wasn't working those hours etc. and they had a hard time contesting I wasn't working, making the shitty employers not so shitty.

  6. Re:I have worked in IT security for several multi- on Many Employers Are Using Tools To Monitor Their Staff's Web-browsing Patterns, Keystrokes, Social Media Posts (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    In our EU, Australian and New Zealand offices the workplace laws are such that there is NO WAY something like keystrokes or toilet break time could be monitored.

    Wrong.

    Not unless the company wanted to be sued out of existence and/or have its offices raided by the cops.

    Wrong again.

  7. Re: Cue in Bitcoin deniers on Bitcoin Smashes Past $7,000 For the First Time (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2

    I tried using Coinmap recently, the 6 places near me it said that accepted Bitcoin, didn't accept it. Could you provide an accurate map instead?

  8. Re:Soo... when is the correction coming? on Bitcoin Smashes Past $7,000 For the First Time (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Traditional methods for valuing crypto currency are not applicable. Donâ(TM)t try.

    I'm not, that's why I don't accept Bitcoin payments.

  9. Re:No wireless charge, no waterproofing on Razer Unveils Gaming Smartphone With 120Hz UltraMotion Display, 8GB RAM and No Headphone Jack (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Set the phone down, it charges.

    When I had a wireless charger, it was annoying trying to place it right on the pad so that it was charging.

    Pick it up to use it, it stops. No fiddling with plugs or wires.

    I can do that with my phone dock.

  10. Re: Not all web apps work with just HTML and CSS on A Surge of Sites and Apps Are Exhausting Your CPU To Mine Cryptocurrency (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    You make me feel dirty thinking about all the tricks and things I used to use. My initial post was more, "yeah, you can do it if you really want to".

    I wasn't aware that progressively loading an HTML document stlil worked.

    It does, my old chat stuff (built before web 2.0 is still functioning proper).

    My experiments with trying to push chunked transfer encoding out of PHP, sending a flush() after each message, caused messages to appear to arrive at the browser in chunks of about a dozen messages at a time.

    I couldn't tell you about what happens with PHP, I originally wrote a custom webserver from scratch into my IRC daemon and then used a forwarding proxy to forward communications to it.

    The coordinates included in a stroke start at mousedown, continue through all the turns of the mouse that the user made while inputting the stroke, and ends at mouse up. How would "the old slicing method" cause these coordinates to be sent to the server?

    The trick being that everything is sliced into tiny pieces. You click it what you want to move, then click the destination.

    I'm feeling very web 1.0 now.

  11. Re:Fake NEws? on Microsoft is Killing Outlook.com Premium (thurrott.com) · · Score: 1

    I thought the fact they had users on outlook.com was newsworthy.

  12. Re:Adfree inbox on Microsoft is Killing Outlook.com Premium (thurrott.com) · · Score: 1

    Cryptocoins are the current thing in people's browsers in 2017.

  13. Re: Not all web apps work with just HTML and CSS on A Surge of Sites and Apps Are Exhausting Your CPU To Mine Cryptocurrency (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Sending the entire image every time using "frames and meta refresh" is wasteful of bandwidth, particularly over satellite or cellular which tends to be fairly strictly metered.

    Sending causes the screen to become blank for a moment between when the new document's HTML loads and when the current revision of the whiteboard image loads.

    I was only thinking of using the meta refresh for the userlist. I thought it was obvious the chat frame would not terminate the HTTP connection (and include a meta refresh in case it was terminated), just keep spending data as new messages come in.

    I don't see how combining image maps with meta refresh is going to let the user drag over an image to add a stroke to a multi-user whiteboard.

    Use the old slicing method before maps existed.

  14. Re: Not all web apps work with just HTML and CSS on A Surge of Sites and Apps Are Exhausting Your CPU To Mine Cryptocurrency (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Use frames and meta refresh, done.

  15. Re:Don't care. on After 12 Years, Mozilla Kills 'Firebug' Dev Tool (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    You better boycott a lot more stuff if supporting antifa is a dealbreaker for you.

    Maybe you should reply to the original poster instead. I was just curious what he was talking about.

    Good luck boycotting all foods produced in the world and all computers produced since the 60's! And literally the entire internet and every piece of OSS that has ever existed.

    I Googled it, but couldn't find information on it. Please provide some reputable sources, friend. I especially would like to hear about the ANTIFA ties to openoffice.org, OpenSolaris, jboss, Notepad Plus Plus, Telegram and Admiral (the Czech Apple cultivator).

  16. Re:Distain for astro-turfers on After 12 Years, Mozilla Kills 'Firebug' Dev Tool (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    There is no Firepath - Xpath gui replacement in dev tools.

    This is being worked on as part of the meta-issue https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/s...

  17. Re:Don't care. on After 12 Years, Mozilla Kills 'Firebug' Dev Tool (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    I Googled it and found mention of donations to ANTIFA, but I couldn't find any reputable sources stating it.

  18. Really? In a market where there's a shortage of qualified and experienced engineers and developers

    I definitely experience this issue regularly in business.

    There's a surplus of them. Tech people have literally gone into other lines of work because of the lack of jobs.

    Someone who has a PHD in computer science but applies to work in for example a datacenter systems architect role but has no knowledge or qualifications in the work, not even as a passing interest or hobby is of no use. They get informed they don't have the experience or knowledge for this particular work and what they need for it. Someone with just a computer science PHD can't get a science R&D job because the requirements for one involves having degrees in the other sciences and mathematics, so they end up going into some other non-IT fields all together.

    This is why we have such a large amount of people who counted to be in the tech industry and why they are undesirable to most companies that require tech workers.

    Loads of those open positions are not designed to be filled; they are designed to justify outsourcing.

    As someone who does a lot of consultancy and contractor work, the biggest reason I find companies outsource is not necessarily cost, but the immediate need to get something done, particularly when you don't have the right culture, business knowledge or the right people to perform the work.

  19. You do realize that Portugal has net neutrality, right?

  20. Would that still work to bypass this?

    Yeah, that would bypass those packages and just switch to your metered connection rate. These are just addon packages for providing unlimited access to those services on top.

  21. Re:All distros should kill their KDE editions on Linux Mint Is Killing the KDE Edition (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    I've found KDE bloated and complex, gnome is a better fit for most users, while LXQt is great for users wanting a traditional WIMP GUI.

    Please elaborate, you have not provided any useful details.

  22. As a KDE user. on Linux Mint Is Killing the KDE Edition (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm glad I never found Mint that appetizing. It always felt like an inferior version of *buntu distributions because it didn't have at least 1:1 package parity. The custom stuff like mintBackup was never that useful to me since these problems had been solved long ago by others.

  23. Re:two ways to improve it on Star Trek: Discovery Is Returning For a Second Season (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, I am in the majority, not the minority.

  24. Re:whatever on Star Trek: Discovery Is Returning For a Second Season (engadget.com) · · Score: 2

    The visual style in Discovery is very JJ Abrams. The story leans more into soap opera and not episodic.

  25. Re:ARRRK BLAAARKK GARRRRK! on Star Trek: Discovery Is Returning For a Second Season (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Nah, most of us can see it fine on Netflix. It's only the minority that live in the US that can't see it on Netflix and some of those complain.