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  1. OP is really an economic anarchist, not a libertarian.

    Probably. Although with stupid people it is hard to find out what they actually stand for.

  2. Re:They make the same mistakes _again_ on We Must Slow Innovation in Internet-Connected Things, Says Bruce Schneier (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    They are also engineers that work on a new domain (software) and do not bother to actually learn the established wisdom in that domain. Stupid.

  3. Excellent comparison.

  4. Well, just shows that stupid, short-sighted libertarianism is not a good idea at all.

  5. You do not understand the problem. If the damage were just on your side, that would be fine. But the vast majority of the damage is to others and the infrastructure and your approach is therefore a complete fail.

  6. They make the same mistakes _again_ on We Must Slow Innovation in Internet-Connected Things, Says Bruce Schneier (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    All the same old tired stupid mistakes are made again in the IoT space. It is really quite stupid.

  7. And that should be really expensive for them on 380,000 Card Payments Compromised In British Airways Breach (sky.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Say, $100 per customer, payable to the customer for their hassle. But likely this will not cost them a thing. So it will happen again and again and again.

  8. Re:Legacy systems are out of control on Software Developers Are Now More Valuable To Companies Than Money, Says Survey (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2

    That is a different problem. Their new offerings are just really bad. Also, nobody sane used MS crap on server-side.

  9. Re:Step one of the cure... on Software Developers Are Now More Valuable To Companies Than Money, Says Survey (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2

    I was thinking the same thing. Although JavaScript, Java, and the surrounding ecosystems could have come from MS, no doubt.

  10. Re:So why not treat them well? on Software Developers Are Now More Valuable To Companies Than Money, Says Survey (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    The issue is very much that a lot of the few people that could be good at it, see the working conditions and career options and go somewhere else. Also, 150+IQ people basically do not exist. I gather this is some wired non-standard US scale...

  11. Re:So why not treat them well? on Software Developers Are Now More Valuable To Companies Than Money, Says Survey (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    People will alway whine.

    And there you are wrong. I have a pretty good career myself. But I see how many coders are treated and I am not surprised at all that there are by far not enough good ones.

  12. So why not treat them well? on Software Developers Are Now More Valuable To Companies Than Money, Says Survey (cnbc.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Naa, that would be un-capitalist. Developers must be cheap wage-slaves that do not have a real career-path and are unable to find a job once they hit 50. That will surely not have any impact on whether smart people go into software writing or not, right?

  13. The tools you use influence how you think about the world. Give the police the possibility to classify people by skin color, and they wil mistakenly believe it is an important factor. Give them tanks, and they will believe they are in a war. And so on.

  14. Re:Now indicted on fraud charges. on Theranos To Close Shop (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Good point about the personality differences. They might not be visible, but talk to a person for a few minutes and you will know, at least when you are into technology and science yourself.

  15. Cool research! on Researchers Used Sonar Signal From a Smartphone Speaker To Steal Unlock Passwords (vice.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    While probably not a real security problem at this time, it nicely demonstrates what powerful hardware and software can to even with simple sensors.

  16. Re:Investors had very little knowledge of technolo on Theranos To Close Shop (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 2

    It was basically clear to me when the media heralded her as the the superior female mind the world had obviously waiting for, when her actual education and work history showed that she was way lacking in experience and education to get a complicated real-world product done.

  17. Absolutely no surprise on Microsoft's Outlook and Skype Are Facing Outages (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    Anybody with at least a cursory understanding how MS makes software and provides services is only surprised this has not happened earlier. Apparently they have now ensnared enough customers that they can stop trying extra hard (well, extra hard for MS levels).

  18. Here is news for you: They are _everywhere_ !

  19. Would not surprise me at all if that is what happened here.

  20. As usual, if you know what you are doing, there is no problem at all. The tool is not the problem.

  21. I like those on Ask Slashdot: Should We Hang Up on Conference Calls? (ft.com) · · Score: 1

    I can sleep, read, play games, etc. as long as I am sure to be muted and catch keywords when I need to say something smart.

    (No, I don't like them, actually, but I found a way to cope...)

  22. Probably a management issue or corporate culture, yes.

  23. This is a space vehicle. If you cannot afford to replace drill-bits before they go bad, we have mistake 5 in addition, gross mismanagement of funds.

  24. Re:Let's be real on Russia Thinks Someone With a Drill Caused the Recent ISS Air Leak (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The problem is not the hole (mistake 1), the problem is attempting to fix it incompetently (mistake 2) and hiding mistake 1 (mistake 3). From the drill-bit-slides, this was also a low-skill person that should not have been allowed near the vehicle (mistake 4). I mean, when I drill aluminum, the result does not look anywhere this bad and I am just an amateur.

    This does not qualify as normal mistake anymore. This is a cluster of negligence and dishonesty that is pretty bad.

  25. Re:Germany conspicuously missing on European Science Funders Ban Grantees From Publishing In Paywalled Journals (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    As usual, Germany lags behind. It is almost as if Germany wants to stay in the past in all things.