China cannot get access to me as an American user without an American tech/telecom company allowing them access to me, either knowingly or unknowingly. But it's hard to argue that they don't know it's happening.
It's also irrelevant.
This is how you get the likes of Darth Fauci.
Were you born a clown, or did you have to go to clown college?
So if Republicans did that much better in 2024 than 2020
I don't think they did. There were too many voting irregularities.
We should use nonessential computing to help balance load by turning it on only when there is excess power.
Whoops, yeah. Backwards time there.
As someone who has owned and/or been paid to type on all of these keyboards (including on IBM glass terminals and such) I think the best IBM keyboards were from the PS/2 era. Those are the ones I was able to get the best speeds on with the fewest errors.
I've been in the software industry for a long, long time and the only good thing about Indian outsourcing that I've seen was its price. Everything else was horrific - quality, management, communication, support fees and accents.
I am not surprised they are in the shit now. Long overdue crash caused by the culture of not giving a fuck.
It's not just the culture of not giving a fuck, it's the culture of passing the buck.
If the old Demotivator of "none of us are as dumb as all of us" is true, it's dealing with Indian outsourcing organisations. Whenever something goes wrong, and it goes wrong frequently enough that it's a well oiled procedure, you'll never be able to pin the responsibility on anyone. First they'll all start blaming other teams, then big meetings are called where everyone who can be involved is (more people speaking means less gets said), Teflon coated deflections which end up with dragging another person in to deflect and blame someone else until the meeting runs well beyond time which is used by people to leave before any tasks can be given to them, let alone any responsibility. Above all else they avoid any actionable items from being created, insisting that there must be another meeting and that everyone must agree before anything can be done.
Any attempt to use an American or Australian style of "cutting through the bull" is treated as if you've just murdered their nan and bummed their dog. Which inevitably leads to complaints about you being "rude" which is another means of deflecting responsibility.
This will be abused in a nanosecond and then he'll claim he doesn't understand why people are so terrible.
This, I'm old enough to remember when payphones were commonplace. First they had rubber cords connecting the handsets, as these were cut regularly they started using braided cords, then steel braided cords (like a high end brake line) then finally steel coil sleeves... and scrotes would still go out with bolt cutters on occasion. All that did was ensure that those who wanted to casually damage a payphone needed to put in more of an effort to do so than a pair of scissors. It reduced vandalism but didn't stop it.
When Australia's public telco was privatised in the late 90s, one of the first things they stopped caring about (I mean after customer service, their staff and actual telephony service) was the payphones they were supposed to maintain. In the early 00s they argued that mobile phones had become ubiquitous enough that they didn't need maintain the public telephone infrastructure. As this was the same government who privatised them it was bought without question.
Oh no, heavens forbid you enjoy something that never existed! Get your head out of your ass and quit huffing your farts.
Stuff people enjoy that never really existed: TV shows / characters. Or 99% of movies. Or games. Or novels. Or paintings that aren't still life / portraits. Or religion / creation myths. Or your own imaginatio.... oh wait, you don't seem to have that last one. But anyways...
99% of what humans enjoy has never existed.
In the context of beautiful women, sure the "by the gods" bit should be "go out and meet actual women".
This will require some activity on their part, like bathing which might be a hurdle.
You're probably right. But I also think Musk's X experience, of firing 80% of the company and mostly maintaining revenues has a lot to do with the tech job slowdown... as it turns out, a good 60-80% of employees in many tech firms are not "needed" to maintain revenues...
You've seen X since Musk took over?
It's gone from a barely contained cesspit under Dorsey to a hive of hatred and scum under Musk. If anything he's demonstrated that firing 80% of the staff results in a massive decrease in product quality.
This article seems anti-China. Slashdot better be careful. You don't want your funding to be canceled.
Slashdot is funded by cryptocuckery, which has just been outlawed in China.
Microsoft's espionage narrative makes no sense given their current engineering goals.
No, it makes half sense. Well, maybe a quarter. Explanation to follow some more quoting.
Windows Recall is a national security threat. It extends a users threat surface into the 4th dimension and offers almost no meaningful functionality to users.
Right, all true.
Microsoft is the threat facing American users,
No, Microsoft is a threat etc.
not China.
You've shown that Microsoft is a threat, which is reasonable. I agree.
You have done nothing whatsoever to show that China is not also a threat. Not one single word of your comment supports that assertion.
China isn't the problem here. Microsoft is the problem.
You've only shown one of those things, how did you come to that conclusion without any supporting logic?
That certainly was a big fucking stupid comment. Congratulations?
You won't have a choice. You will buy it or be cited, convicted, imprisoned, enslaved.
I work for an all Windows shop, but most of our tools are web hosted. We could change the user systems to something else and our workflows would barely have to change.
But we still don't.
Not just that, they would use AI to OCR, so their energy consumption would increase substantially. Every problem is a nail.
Put no trust in cryptic comments.
