I disagree.. Most home connections have limited uploads, so it probably only takes 1 person's phone to start uploading their photos to the cloud for network performance to get a bit sketchy.

Downloads generally everyone has an excessive amount

That's incorrect..

If you look at Watchguard and other advanced router vendors such these days, they send unknown samples of files to a fake windows computer in the cloud, run them and analyse them.

Whilst it won't detect everything, if everyone ran such sandbox based AV systems things would work much better.

The big issue with OSX, is that Apple DECEIVED people into believing OSX couldn't get viruses, so everyone let their guard down.

Don't be surprised if there is a lot more OSX malware out there than people know about

The other day when I was onsite, our rich clients son decided to show all of his mates how high his drone flies. I have a private pilot license and I know their house is on a common flight route. We also constantly see stories of people using these in national parks and such here in Australia where its illegal, and people simply don't care. Whilst drones have their uses, unfortunately, they also attract the type of crowd who needs to overcompensate.

People shouldn't even be allowed to buy them without a license. It's pretty clear people aren't following the rules and its really sad people are risking others lives simply to post some photos on Instagram. Not everyone is breaking the rules, but a huge number seem to (both unknowingly, and knowingly)

At the very least, they should be required to have ADS-B so they are visible to aircraft.

When Firefox was forked from Mozilla, it was revolutionary.

It was promised to be non-bloated, incredibly fast, and have both theming and extensions which loaded easily (the alternative either had none, or required rebooting for every theme change, etc). That was what people like me were eager to donate to.

Then over time, it felt like management changed. I was genuinely interested in Firefox Mobile, but that seemed like there was simply insufficient developers for that project.

And instead of fixing issues, CEO pays increased drastically, but the major issues continued. When your computer has intermittent connectivity, Firefox SERIOUSLY struggles. Every other browser works perfectly.

I noticed this started happening when they applied the patch a few years back to stop people continously reloading sites which weren't loading (DDOS'ing them further). No idea if that patch was the cause (I never properly checked), but I only noticed it after that.

Also, a CEO with common sense wouldn't come begging for money when they could throw a bit of their pay in to help out the company too (who knows what their bonuses are like). It's just left a bad taste in many people's mouth

The CEO at Mozilla now seems to get paid over $800K per year.

I lost all respect when the CEO sent out an email absolutely begging for money to help the company survive, whilst they themselves could hire 10 full time employees with that money and still live comfortably. Management at Mozilla is begging for money whilst they are literally living like kings (and I donated a fair bit to Mozilla in the past).

Management seems to have reached max corruption, and if management gave a damn about the software, they would at least halve their salaries and hire more developers or start some community bounties with the money, instead of prioritising themselves. Even 300K is more than enough to live VERY comfortably. $800K is just greedy. Because, if management gave a The company is slowly returning to Netscape days and management seems more focused on their own gains.

I also wonder how many people with the current board of directors were those who started with the company.

That's your issue?

Our biggest issue is that everyone wires up all the units, and when they cause network loops because they don't have STP enabled, they call us for help.

And, their soundbar's are generations behind the competition at the moment (hell, everyone from Sony to Yamaha has Atmos ones these days).

I'm going to be so happy when MusicCast takes over. And it comes free built into their receivers, so less fudging around.

What they don't mention, is that WiFi on iPhone is horribly broken, and it seems that every Wifi vendor has to workaround the issues (everyone from Ruckus to Unifi has to specifically target the iPhones). The only thing more broken is the Fitbit Aria.. In fact, on OSX, we discovered when a computer was in sleep mode, it kept hanging onto its DHCP address until the lease expired, even if the entire network was reset whilst it was turned off.. So junk like that saves battery life, but its bad behavior.

Also, changing the DTIM on a wifi AP can have a significant impact on battery life too.

It wouldn't surprise me if iPhone consumed more battery life, simply because there is less competition and a smaller market, so there is far less incentive for hardware developers to optimise their drivers for that platform (not even sure if Apple or hardware developers code the drivers though).

The only reason people think of Apple's software and hardware as stable and the worlds best, is because of clever marketing, and sheep.

If Oracle genuinely cared about Java, they would release it, and the patents to the community.

You'd literally be insane to touch it at the moment. Oracle will step on too many toes eventually, and the more toes they step on, the bigger the risk of using Java long term is. They have a long history of being d**ks, but the most recent I remember, is when they forked Redhat to make their own distro, which was basically exactly the same, but a few minor kernel tweaks, and that users paid Oracle instead of Redhat.

There is NO good reason for any open source developer to support them.

If the law also allows DMCA abusers to be shut down too, I have less of a problem with this law (by which I mean, companies which send out DMCA notices incorrectly). And by shut down, I mean, being unable to send out notices in the future, and disconnected from the internet entirely (including their company website)

It wouldn't surprise me if all members of the MPAA have incorrectly sent out DMCA notices before, for media they had no rights too (a news station for instance shut down a video of a Mars landing uploaded by NASA).

So, if laws were put in place to allow companies to be shut down, if they abuse the DMCA, or make a mistake, I wouldn't have a problem with this, because it would ensure that notices were only sent in cases that they were warranted.

But the way it stands, it just opens the system up to more bullying and abuse.

Does this mean we can finally delete our projects off Sourceforge, or will they simply F' us more and add more malware?

Wouldn't GPS RAIM be able to work around this issue anyway (leaving only consumer GPS devices with problems?)

Exactly this. They are also barely upgradable, you need to pay 5x more for a laptop with decent specs, and many have weird linux compatibility issues in Linux, whereas most desktop's just work (on my Asus for instance, the I need to send a kernel parameter so it doesn't think my wifi is turned off).

And, they will wear out faster, be less maintainable, etc. Lets revisit this story when laptops are modular.

Where in Australia, apparently Netflix will be introduced in March. However, knowing Australia, we'll probably be paying $30 per month (which is a ripoff), and will have barely any US shows. In all likelihood, it will be filled to the brink of shonky Australian Reality TV programs.

In that case, I'll just stop watching TV shows and just get back to doing more programming.

That's nice. I hear that the best form of debate is where you just to call everything you don't agree with bullshit. Fortunately for you, you may even get a few upvotes.

However, judging by the fact that you seem to receive very few upvotes at all for any of the comments you post (but quite a few downvotes), I'm going to suggest that you change strategy, and maybe accept that you can be wrong. Because, applied to software, you sound like the kind of guy who will claim that a problem doesn't exist (because you can't replicate it), until your coworkers find it and fix it for you.

Those two stories are totally legit. Believe it or not, I actually forgot about them until recently because they are from 5-10 years ago. Every male including myself knows that every female pretty much strolls online and gets harassed. And, stuff like that needs to change. I don't believe from a business point of view women will ever get full pay parity (because if they have kids they will be away from work, etc), but, things are worse than that. The Christmas tree thing had good intentions, but the plan is kind of flawed

In one place I worked, the CEO said they don't hire women because all they do is "sit around and look pretty, and hang out on facebook". At another, the director was worried about sexual harassment issues.

The problem isn't the workers, its the people doing the hiring, and the CEO's. I agree that women don't seem to be as interested in IT, but, with all due respect, there are serious problems in our industry, and you sir, are actually the one saying bullshit (but you might not realise it).

And yes, this is written by a guy. And no, I don't support everything women claims, but, the above is just my experience (its the side of the story which people like yourself may not hear about).