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  1. Re:They fixed it? on Sunday-Morning Outage Strikes Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    its crazy. time to read the sunday funnies. i think the newspaper corporations are behind it.

  2. copy cat of Folding@Home? on 'BlackHoles@Home' Will Use Your PC For DIY Gravitational Wave Analysis (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    i remember back in 2006-2008 we were doing some Folding@Home testing. Can't remember super computing university or center that was running it. it was cool.

  3. Re:Tim Berners-Lee, the hypocrite on Several Major Browsers to Prevent Disabling of Click-Tracking 'Hyperlink Auditing' (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    is this the HTTP_REFERER post that alot of people watch? or something else? Google Analytics on the outs?

  4. the only thing AT&T will have left is a dial tone patent and cross connect fees. big iron got rusty and their retirees are not following their insurance and lawyers presented actuarial tables for unfunded liabilities and debt relief. oh well, momma bell sad to see you with and die, but hey, you had a good run. had to cute down a pine tree the other day, sad, but was encroaching upon my home and insurance company was frowning at me. oh well, from nut to nuthing.

  5. mortality rate equivalence on The US Just Had the Most Q1 Layoffs in a Decade (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    for example -- lets see 1.3? 1.3 birth, 1 death, 1.3 hired, 1 fired. I wish those losing there jobs had something to do with major government re-organization and streamlining. the business sector can absorb the government layoffs and reductions in force, yet the unfunded liabilities of our federal pensions is astronomical. we need to auto-correct and get unfunded liabilities back to zero. amen. peace.

  6. board members - not really representing the world on Google Cancels AI Ethics Board In Response To Outcry (vox.com) · · Score: 2

    I find it interesting to have people from several groups like drones to the Heritage foundation on a board where the peons like me are not there in some form and capacity. its probably just some ones idea to get free travel and some political clout added to their resume. i know of VPs and higher that do this all the time without really adding value or developing and driving a group from a think tank into a draft, then a specification then a product or cool service based on what's Good for the Earth and People. oh well, maybe management from the bottom up is a better approach other than mob rule from the haters.

  7. Re:Compare to nvidia - holy smokes 386sx vs 386dx on Intel Announces Cascade Lake With Up To 56 Cores and Optane Persistent Memory DIMMs (tomshardware.com) · · Score: 1

    holy smokes is all i can say. feels like my 386SX vs 386DX that I am running notepad on.

  8. Re:Not that it'll matter much... on Linux Mint 19.2 'Tina' is On the Way, But the Developers Seem Defeated and Depressed (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    make a donation and let them know how much you appreciate them. i do. skin in the game is more than moral support. it depends on the level of involvement. i wish i could be a dev support person on linux mint yet the field and crowd is very tight and getting involved requires a post like this to say, hey.. how can i help? i know you may need a pat on the back, more $ in the coffers, and maybe even some stimulants like free trips and getaways for a week to say, hey, this is all worth it.. if ibm buys redhat, and microsoft buys linux mint... does this all go away, and slashdot is all that remains ?? hmm.. curious minds want to know.. wish my ID was like 5000 but I am pretty new at #753349, yet my bond # is 99, very low in terms of tens of thousands. ;-) you know what i mean..

  9. Linux Mint bought by Microsoft on SUSE Will Soon Be the Largest Independent Linux Company (qz.com) · · Score: 0

    when will Linux Mint be bought by Microsoft - oh, I forgot, that is already in the works. ;-) spoiler alert. no?

  10. there was a time, across from the Redmond Campus.. on 'Fortnite' May be a Virtual Game, But It's Having Real-life, Dangerous Effects (bostonglobe.com) · · Score: 1

    we had Nintendo, and folks would get paid bank to play all day... while most of us over near Lake Bill and other offsite locations... slaved away programming all day.. fast forward 30 years.. same game.. same problem.. same attitude... same solution... get a life..

  11. Re:Zuck is trying to burn competitors on Mark Zuckerberg Wants The Government To Help Police Internet Content (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    didn't Ajit Pai face and him room and play the board game LIFE together? probably their mastermind plan is working... for $1 million dollars.. no wait... for $1 billion dollars. no wait.. $100 billion dollars..... sit down.. short stack.. ;-) we have a world to wreck havoc on via this protocol called http and sms... bwwaaaa haaaa haaaa...

  12. shifting the blame and being blameless on Mark Zuckerberg Wants The Government To Help Police Internet Content (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    at first glance, shifting the blame of ones actions of self-governance is not a good idea. government is to manage and regulate good public policy. the FB TOS basically says, we are a public bulletin board. you put up a note and the public is free to read it, copy and paste it, do whatever. if you put another sticky over your note that says, for my friends only instead of public, then that means for their friends only (except we at Facebook can look at it too to determine if we should allow it and of course digest it and disseminate however we feel froggy). good stuff. here is my recipe for chocolate chip cookies i bought for 25 with a coupon from inside a box of cereal.

  13. Re:Or it could be those companies suck on Bay Area Tech Firms Laying Off 1,200 Workers By Memorial Day (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    yes, the recession cycle every tens years is consistent with gold prices going from $150 to $1600 and back down to $162 and back up to $1200, so on and so forth, and whatever bubble is human generated.. Y2K, dot com, mortgage.. next.. derivative.. its self fulfilling prophecy...cuts like 1-3% is normal and cyclic, cuts and reorgs like 50% are dramatic industry shifts... an accordion effect of sorts both internal and external.. the investment strategy is always shed and push on.. shed... and push on... 1200 layoffs means 600 new startups where 5-6 will be unicorns, etc. nothing new. the new normal... food water shelter... education... work forever, no such thing as retirement in the last 20 years... only thing left of oneself is a headstone anyhow.. so why worry about it... procreation... if you like... TGIF.. oh wait, i work 24/7. dogma at its best.. rock on Garth... rock on Wayne..

  14. Re:Wait a minute... C# vs Borland C on TypeScript's Quiet, Steady Rise Among Programming Languages (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    times change -- still love in parallel my Fortran 77 and COBOL in parallel then Borland C in comparison... I had to shelve... CP/M and my trusty HP41-CX.. still have and use my HP41-CX w/that matrix module.. batteries still exist.

  15. 20 years in the making.. on TypeScript's Quiet, Steady Rise Among Programming Languages (wired.com) · · Score: 2

    @Microsoft @JavaScriptDaily been programming in Javascript for 20 years and they finally come up with TypeScript -- of all things... when I was at Microsoft I told them that back in 1995-1997, they finally agreed in 2017... https://twitter.com/Reno89512/...

  16. its AI is just wanting to ends it misery sooner than later.. phoning home...HAL, Joshua, D.a.r.r.y.l.... no one answers.

  17. just post the code - open source it on Tesla Sues Former Employees For Allegedly Stealing Data, Autopilot Source Code (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    just post the code, open source it -- come on Elon.. be more open about it.. think about the safety benefits you can gain from the whole world knowing how it works... you can be like the movies;; Hackers (Fisher Stevens as Eugene), Antitrust (Tim Robbins as Winston)...

  18. when did Noah build the ark? before the rain? i feel bad for the flooding areas, but hey, i have seen realtors sell a ton of things in a flood plain knowing better than to do that.. insurance companies just jack the rates up, and of course our government just bails our the insurance companies over and over again using taxpayer backed funds for stupid development and redevelopment on the coast and in under water table and levy housing that should have never existed after the first major catastrophe and flood... should have been made and remained a soccer field park or something like that forever...

  19. some things are just too crazy to self fix on Grandson of Legendary John Deere Inventor Calls Out Company On Right To Repair (securityledger.com) · · Score: 1

    while i admire those that try to control repairs, some things are just to crazy to fix yourself. yet, the competitive pricing of a free market to get something fixed should exist. the manufacturer should not 100% absolutely control something i bought and paid for, otherwise why would a title of ownership exist? its okay, as farmers, john deer was the primadonna and the darling of all things farming, yet massey ferguson, international harvester, ford, etc... had plenty of room on our farm and acreage. the dumb asses at john deer were doing like any other capitalist, trying to control the market for maximum profit.. that's okay.. the market will eventually decide and turn on them and drop them like a hot rock in a lake... no crying over spilled milk ... john deer... the mickey mouse laws do apply and your patents are nice... submarined patents or not... until that was no longer legal either... ethical, nope, but greedy bastards.. yep.. so... ;-) nice one ... tesla? oh.. so what.. i like Elon and his toy story... can't wait until we have moon trips and john deer is patenting moon farming equipment too....

  20. dialtone patent trolling on AT&T CEO Interrupted By a Robocall During a Live Interview (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    maybe a dialtone patent troll at work? we have the horsepower to intercept every call in the US, voice print the caller and drop the packets if they like... why not just let the FCC let the NSA do it.. packet sniffing 101... smells like a scam, looks like a scam.. quacks like scam, walks and talks like a scam.. reverse traverse to caller via packets and disconnect service to foreign call center.. uh.. took like 10 minutes to for the NSA to add the rules to their filters and then click enable... no privacy invasion, just packet inspection.. maybe? maybe not?

  21. Re:Somebody please flip some kill switches on Node.js and JS Foundations Are Merging To Form OpenJS (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    nicely said. post the list as well, the top 100 dead parrots please so educators at K-12 and Higher Ed can stop regurgitating vomit in the classrooms. if its a history lesson, then fine, but say so.. some programmers coming out are using dead tech or bleeding tech... i won't hire either.

  22. all the code bloat I see all the time is really depressing and harmful. i surf the internet to read content, study, buy, pay on a really fast light client and secure platform, and if i want a movie or flashy show then use a heavier client.. the research i see is a degradation of the internet because of code bloat via css includes and crazy long pages..

  23. Re:Standard all year on Trump Endorses Permanent Daylight Savings Time (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    just change the work and school hours in the winter time from 7am to 40pm or 8am to 5pm to just 9am to 3pm. that should solve the going and coming to work and school in the dark.

  24. Re:The end of private spending on USA Today Tech Columnist: Millennials Will Live To See a Cashless World (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    its good to go into a grocery or convenience store, pay with cash and buy a gallon of ice cream or really good chocolate candy bar. go home. eat it, and not have your life insurance company or medical insurance cancelled the following day, week or month for frivolous buying and consumption. okay, okay, i digress, maybe 10 gallons of ice cream in a year.

  25. stellar realty startups on Has the Great 'Moonrush' Begun? (thespacereview.com) · · Score: 1

    in 2000, when the dotcom deregulation came through, i had the idea of stellarpropertymanagement.com and said. can't wait till we have to do an open house and showing on the moon.