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  1. Re:People are greedy. News at 11 on More Than 60% of Tech Workers Feel They're Underpaid (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2

    I feel like the statistics are skewed by one or two markets, while obviously not the same market I live in a major Canadian city and no one I know in tech is earning near 135k USD.

  2. Its not perfect, but your wifi card also isn't going to stop working with an automatic update nor will the user need to dig through a list of random packages preventing them from upgrading.

  3. Re:Why? on Slack is Buying HipChat and Stride From Atlassian (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Are you using their cloud version? We have a couple hundred on HC and sending messages only really fails when the user's internet is having issues.

  4. Re:Try installing their stuff on Slack is Buying HipChat and Stride From Atlassian (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I suspect you may be doing something wrong, we have very large installs of Jira & Confluence without issue /shrug

  5. Unfortunately normal users are stuck at the moment. Macs are still very expensive (and have had a lot questionable hardware issues in the past few years) , Chromebooks have a 5-year EOL, and unfortunately Linux is still too flaky to give someone without technical knowledge.

  6. Re:Just part of their war on... everyone on Google Has Made YouTube Slower on Edge and Firefox, Mozilla Alleges (neowin.net) · · Score: 1

    The agreement is so that Google maintains direction of their service instead of a different experience on every device based on the priorities of the manufacturers.

  7. Re:Just part of their war on... everyone on Google Has Made YouTube Slower on Edge and Firefox, Mozilla Alleges (neowin.net) · · Score: 1

    Remember when Google declared that Amazon Fire TV users would no longer be able to use an app to access their site, because rea$ons? Well, that's still the state of affairs. You have to use a browser instead of an App because Amazon won't carry Google's devices in their web store.

    That is an interesting retcon, Amazon decided they didn't need to follow the Youtube API's licensing agreement when they implemented their Fire TV application. Amazon's anti-competitive store behaviour certainly didn't engender them to Google but Google has similarly kicked off other companies, see also Microsoft when they violated the Youtube terms.

  8. Re:This is stupid garbage on In Encryption Push, Chrome Flags HTTP Sites as 'Not Secure' (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    Insecure is an accurate description for HTTP. Further given the number of sites I've run into over the years showing locks and claiming to submit credit cards securely that are using HTTP I don't think this change is bad.

  9. I can tell you as someone who worked in a support call center when younger that people love to be transferred during calls, everyone loves to explain something twice. The robo-operator better be really good for a wide variety of topics and replace tele-menus or whatever they're called or people won't be happy about this.

  10. I believe there was a change in recent generations of Intel CPUs historically the same CPU would perform roughly across laptop vendors, more recently the result can vary widely by the thermal design of the laptop.

  11. Physically Segment Your Networks on Hackers Breached Virginia Bank Twice in Eight Months, Stole $2.4M (krebsonsecurity.com) · · Score: 2

    Sony, Home Depot, and a number of others have been compromised because they failed to separate what should be secure systems from the rest of their infrastructure. This behaviour is blatantly negligent.

  12. Re:Red-headed stepchild. on Hackers Breached Virginia Bank Twice in Eight Months, Stole $2.4M (krebsonsecurity.com) · · Score: 1

    I guess all other forms of communication too - companies have been convinced by "a creditor" calling them to "update" the account to send payment to.

  13. Re:Samsumg or Qualcomm propoganda on Apple's iPhones Trail Samsung, Google Devices in Internet Speeds (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Interesting that is your argument when Slashdot just covered malware in the Apple store.

  14. Re:Take away lesson: Back your computer up regular on Apple Seemingly Unable To Recover Data From 2018 MacBook Pro With Touch Bar When Logic Board Fails (macrumors.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    TPM / secure enclave again ties your data to specific hardware, they also tie you to more hw that can fail.

  15. Re:Samsumg or Qualcomm propoganda on Apple's iPhones Trail Samsung, Google Devices in Internet Speeds (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1, Troll

    Wow you really drank the koolaid. The X is apple catching up to what Android phones have been offering in many cases for years.

  16. Ostensibly means:

    apparently or purportedly, but perhaps not actually.

    Which doesn't exactly make sense when directly linking to people complaining

  17. Re:They're not stupid. on IBM Wants $167 Million From Groupon Over Alleged Patent Infringement (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Or they did the math and decided it would be cheaper to pay than to litigate.

  18. An Interoperability Project on Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Twitter Launch the Data Transfer Project (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    would be a lot more useful. Maybe you can pull your chat history out of Facebook, but unless you convinced every other person to do the same you still can't message them so how will it help you to import the history into Skype, Hangouts, etc.

    Email is probably the only useful transfer here and that is Google & Microsoft only, if they actually support it...

  19. Re:Brought to you by the ICBM scare dumbasses on Senate Wants Netflix, Spotify To Send Out Federal Emergency Alerts (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    Mistakes aren't even the problem, turns out that people don't like it when you alert them at 3 AM about an amber alert nowhere near them.

  20. Re:Coconut juice is not milk and never was on Should the Word 'Milk' Be Used To Describe Nondairy Milk-Alternative Products? (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not similar and just because something has been done a certain way doesn't make it accurate. If it comes from a plant it is by definition not milk. Milk is a substance secreted by mammals to feed their young. If it doesn't come from a mammal it isn't milk. If it comes from a plant it is juice. So the accurate term is coconut juice.

    I'd say you've been drinking the dairy lobbies koolaid....er milk. The dictionary definition of milk considers a much wider usage.

  21. Re:They're not stupid. on IBM Wants $167 Million From Groupon Over Alleged Patent Infringement (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    IBM has had an incredible R&D team for decades and decades. They research real technology.

    I agree, but from the article absent proper detail it doesn't sound like this patent suit involves any of it.

  22. Re:20 years is reasonable. on IBM Wants $167 Million From Groupon Over Alleged Patent Infringement (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    For technology 20-years seems far too long, stop and think about the state of technology and the internet in 1998.

  23. Solutions to TSP are math, math is not patentable.

  24. Unless... on DeepMind, Elon Musk and Others Pledge Not To Make Autonomous AI Weapons (engadget.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    someone calls him out on twitter. /rimshot

  25. I mean they think that an ipad can replace a computer so it shouldn't come as a surprise.