The market wanted to cut corners and they got it, now you blame the provider?

Sometimes you don't get to work on "real" problems because you don't have the resources (money, education, tools, etc).

They do have Amazon Prime Services - where an "Amazon Turk Rabbit" (Amazon's take on Task Rabbit) comes to your house for a fixed fee to install or fix small things in your house. They may even in the future have the infrastructure to open up their warehouse to consumers and take on Sam's Club or Costco.

Perfect timing with the demise of Sears!! Amazon will take over the world!

Cool concept. Add in BlueTooth headphones and Boss detection on the outer collar and I'll be sold!

Apparently that already happened https://gizmodo.com/5676641/al...

It's actually the Apple idiots (consumers) that are probably complaining about the 'master' and 'slave' terms. We're going to need to come up with gender neutral serial port terminology too - male, female, gender-benders, dongles, bit-banging

In a universe where the 99% ruin it for the 1%. Hide file extensions for 99% of people that don't need them, let the 1% un-check the box.

I feel like home ownership is a major life goal. It's certainly in the best interests of the people at the top as you are enslaved to a 15 or 30 year mortgage and can be counted on to pay into the many avenues of maintenance that comes with home ownership: not only house maintenance, but community maintenance in the form of taxes and bonds.

Totally agree. Ask me to name famous actors and I can only come up with a few. I don't really watch movies and average people don't really follow tech.

exactly!

Will a site be protected from being slashdotted? It's kind of a DDoS

this is hilarious! what is old is new again. Now think back to something that's fallen out of favor and capitalize on it!

How is this any different from locking down systems, ensuring security updates are installed. Setting up firewalls, port forwarding, NAT, VPN, etc?

You're not accounting for the fact that work these days at the bottom level can be done by Recent College Grads at the entry level pay, with guidance from an employee that has been around for a while. These young employees come in with much more enthusiasm than people that have been around for a while. Presumably the 20% of employees that are getting laid off are older workers that are highly compensated, and for that high compensation they may be able to hire on 2 or 3 RCGs. The RCG Mill of corporations is alive and well.