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Comment Names, and Cycles (Score 1) 10

They should call a typical 4 year degree in such "Information Systems Engineering" (ISE), but it doesn't sound as a high-brow, meaning universities that use Computer Science can charge more. Name-Games.

Anyhow, it's had cyclical demand at least since the IT slump of the early 80's, sometimes called the "video game slump"*, then the "Glasnost slump" of early 90's (inspiring movie Falling Down), then the dot-com bust of early 2000's, and now the "AI confusion slump" for lack of a better term, as co's are hesitant to hire not knowing who or what AI will replace in a few years.

There would have been a slump around 2008 being the entire economy was in the shits, but the smart-phone boom smoothed it over. But in general it's roughly on a decade cycle.

* Even though a specific industry may be the first to slump, it often spreads to all of IT, as devs exiting the specific industry will accept peanuts to switch domains. Unemployed people are desperate. BeenThereDoneThat.

Comment That's actually rather impressive (Score 1) 14

Bank of America allowed hundreds of unverified customers to open accounts, prosecutors alleged, including 176 customers who claimed the same small home as their address.

I'm no fan of Bank of America, but with 70,000,000 customers, "hundreds" of problematic accounts seems more like they're doing a good job in this area rather than a bad one.

Comment Re:Now you're cooking with aluminum (Re:cheap EVs) (Score 2) 134

The entire back half of the aluminum frame was melted to a puddle... I recall Ford was the only one offering aluminum frames on trucks at the time but I could be mistaken on that too.

You are indeed mistaken... Ford trucks do not have aluminum frames. They have aluminum bodies and beds, but the frames are steel.

Comment Re:Yeah right (Score 1) 36

That revenue may be from illegals bribing ICE to look the other the way. Worked for my friend. They wired their shirt so that when their arms are moved back into handcuff position, cash slides up from their front pocket.

There is a reinforced vertical slit on the inside of the pocket. When arms are stretched back, a string going from each arm tied just above elbows then grows taunt, pulling a loop-pin threaded through the pocket slit up.

The other side of the pin is attached to a half-cut envelope "cup" holding a cash-stack. The taunt string thus pulls the pinned cash envelope upward, and partly out of the pocket so it's visible to ICE. If called over the strings, my friend just claims it's an anti-pick-pocket device. Quite clever, I must say.

(P.S. Don't ask if I'm trolling, I won't answer.)

Comment Re:Cynical me suspects an agenda (Score 1) 65

Republicans keep telling people that Democrats are going to take their guns away, and that hasn't happened over the past 40 years.

I mean... despite the Bruen decision, states have been doubling down on gun control over the last several years, so forgive us if we don't believe that yellow stuff coming out of your dick and landing on us is rain.

Comment Interesting game of chicken (Score 1) 69

Millions of Windows 10 users will not upgrade and will not pay the yearly security patch fee, and will start to get infected.

Will MS say "you're on your own, too bad" and let mass chaos happen, hurting MS's reputation (fair or not), or will they back down and give security updates free?

Comment Re: Witch Hunting (Score 1) 75

This argument is dumb. What's the point a style? For others to copy the source. If you don't achieve mimicry, you're not stylish! Therefore you can't expect a monopoly on the style you claim to own.

I don't disagree it's stupid, but it's the current state of the law. I don't know what to tell you, other than "I reject your reality and substitute my own" sounds great, but tends to not actually do anything.

Comment Stupid Regulations (Score 1) 125

There are stupid regulations in our neighborhood holding us back. I'd rather not pay for a battery pack, just the panels. It would cost us roughly half as much. But we also want to use our OWN power if the grid goes down, which it does often, but regulations forbid that: we must buy a battery pack to have that ability.

I realize a battery pack gives us off-hour power if the grid goes down, but since it's only a spare, we don't care that it would only work during the day. It would be enough to keep our food frozen and charge our phones. (Because normally our excess power would go into the grid, the power company could have central batteries to store that power for off-hours.)

Many suspect it's power co's bribing these restrictions in place, not regulation by "devious socialists".

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