If the record companies were honest, the artists would be making more money so would love streaming services. Unfortunately, the record industry is controlled by a bunch of thieving assholes who see paying artists as unnatural. So the record companies are making money hand over fist, and the the artists get screwed, as usual.

I was planning on suggesting this to my boss. Since we can't fill a senior level position, let's at least get a junior or mid level tech. It will reduce the work load on me somewhat, even if he (or she) can't handle the more complicated problems. And if the person is smart enough, he could quickly become proficient in the tools we are planning on implementing over the next year.

I work in a three man devops department. For months we've been short a man. Last friday the other guy quit without notice. So it's now just me running a three man department with limited hope of filling the two empty slots in the immediate future. There are lots of system admins around, but not a lot of them have advanced devops experience.

Anyone who's had any dealing with Oracle knows they have never completed a single project on time and within budget. Their entire business plan is to keep you paying for as long as possible. "Forever" being the preferred target.

You mean the computer model that has been predicting warmer temperatures for more than a decade that haven't happened? That computer model?

Every single cell phone has a unique ID code associated with it. Simply require the cell phone provider industry to create a shared database that would contain the this ID code of all stolen phones and make it illegal to activate a phone on this list.

The cell phone provider industry doesn't want to do this because a stolen phone means they might get a new service contract with the thief while selling the victim a new phone (which almost always extends the existing contract). Doing anything about stolen cell phones is lost revenue to them.

A child is in greater danger from a backyard swimming pool than from a privately owned firearm.

True, but every generation or two Germany makes up for that by killing a whole lot of people.

The question shouldn't be "how to spy on Americans with violating our rights?" The question to ask is, "why the fuck are you conducting massive spying on Americans?"

I had a similar experience many years ago. The very first test I did with every build was press both hands on a bunch of keys. It almost always locked the system up completely. So I'd reject it. The lead programmer (who as an idiot) kept saying, "don't do that." My response was, "that's a cat jumping on the keyboard, or a tired person accidentally leaning on the keyboard. It's something that will happen. And when it does, it locks the system so tight you have to do a hard reboot." BTW, this was back in MSDOS days.

One day he told me my job as QA wasn't to QA the program (like I said, he was an idiot). So I said, fine, and quit on the spot. I don't do QA now. I hated it. Now I'm a system admin.

Mine does. We have to be because we are a regular target. Every line of code goes through a review process before going live in production. Even a single line change I did today, which was no more complex than changing the spelling of something, was checked by another person when merged to production.

Wrong. The right to travel is a natural right. Sometimes flying is the only feasible way to take the trip, as in this case where she couldn't simply hop in a car and drive across an ocean.

Also, "The Federalist Papers". A must read for anyone who wishes to understand the thinking behind the creation of our Constitution.

Who are these executives donating to? Who's on the committee that approves IT contracts? When incompetence keeps getting hired, bribery is a sure bet.

kleargear will soon discover how the internet works.