Comment Re:In short: (Score 1) 383
Was it intended as a reply to #45593367? :P
Comment In short: (Score 1) 383
Q. How Do I Convince Management To Hire More IT Staff?
A. you don't.
A. you don't.
Comment Time to move (Score 2, Interesting) 631
Ubuntu ceased being relevant sometime around 2011. The walled garden approach does not work with the open source crowd.
Comment Re:No search in kobo (Score 1) 207
Yes you can. Perhaps you own(ed) an old one?
Comment Re:Slashvertisment (Score 1) 207
Nope. They sell in other countries, too. Just bought one, and I don't live in the US or UK...
Comment Re:Most X have considered quitting due to stress (Score 1) 397
I would have put it differently.
Bad management is not unique to IT. Neither is the stress directly due to the nature of the job (social work, or anything else that puts you in touch with disadvantaged people... medicine... just name it.
Which by the way gets to the same conclusion: most X have considered quitting due to stress. I know several (non-IT) people who did quit due to stress.
Comment Flashback. (Score 1) 114
Comment Re:Someone who hasn't read the book (Score 1) 1054
...or confused it with Gerald's Game
Comment Re:Government Waste (Score 0) 220
The first part, where "More walking and biking would lead to lower obesity rates for Portlanders", I think only requires a couple working neurons, so I do too sincerely hope they didn't need the model to find out that.
The second part, where less obese people would find walking and biking more appealing, well I sincerely hope they didn't use the model for it either, as they could have as well pulled it straight out of their asses. People from Portland are posting here they find it useful to walk and use bikes, and it desn't look like they are counting "fitness" among the reasons. I don't know in Portland, but where I live, if people could use their cars to go to the bogs they'd just do, irregardless of their obesity or slimness.
The second part, where less obese people would find walking and biking more appealing, well I sincerely hope they didn't use the model for it either, as they could have as well pulled it straight out of their asses. People from Portland are posting here they find it useful to walk and use bikes, and it desn't look like they are counting "fitness" among the reasons. I don't know in Portland, but where I live, if people could use their cars to go to the bogs they'd just do, irregardless of their obesity or slimness.
Comment Re:Real books (Score 1) 283
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your Amazon.
Submission + - Banks Faulted for Fake Antivirus Scourge (krebsonsecurity.com)
krebsonsecurity writes: "Merchant banks that process credit card payments for fake antivirus or "scareware" exhibit a distinctive pattern of card processing that could be used by Visa and MasterCard to weed out the rogue processors, according to a new study by the University of California, Santa Barbara. From the study: "The UCSB team found that the fake AV operations sought to maximize profits by altering their refunds according to the chargebacks reported against them, and by refunding just enough to remain below a payment processor’s chargeback limits. Whenever the rate of chargebacks increased, the miscreants would begin issuing more refunds. When the rate of chargebacks subsided, the miscreants would again withhold refunds." The study also highlights how few customers ever request a refund, and how affiliates pushing this junk software made more than $133 million."
Submission + - How Apple became a Monopsonist (cnn.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Writing for CNNMoney, Phillip Elmer-Dewitt draws on several sources to argue that "Apple has become not a monopoly (a single seller), but a monopsony — the one buyer that can control an entire market." According to Dewitt, Apple uses its $70 billion cash hoard to "pay for the construction cost (or a significant fraction of it) of [tech factories] in exchange for exclusive rights to the output production of the factory for a set period of time (maybe 6 — 36 months), and then for a discounted rate afterwards." This gives Apple "access to new component technology months or years before its rivals and allows it to release groundbreaking products that are actually impossible to duplicate."
Comment Re:Bunch of smarties, those guys. (Score 1) 96
Exactly.
But hey, if you look at Microsoft's LIS draft, you'll see that there is nothing to worry about, and/or nothing a Congress member will worry about, or understand.
(And just to quote TFA from yesterday: "A request for clarification we sent to Microsoft has remained unanswered so far.")
But hey, if you look at Microsoft's LIS draft, you'll see that there is nothing to worry about, and/or nothing a Congress member will worry about, or understand.
(And just to quote TFA from yesterday: "A request for clarification we sent to Microsoft has remained unanswered so far.")
Comment TL; (Score 0) 145
DR
Comment Most people are getting it wrong... (Score 1) 34
...it' s just a rather convoluted way to promote voyeurtools.
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