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Posts by thomn8r
78 publicly visible posts • joined 2 Nov 2015
IBM to scrap 401(k) matching, offer something else instead
Where's the mysterious metal monolith today then? Oh look, it's atop a California mountain
Totally shock claim: Comcast accused of gouging TV rivals
Why is Wikipedia man Jimbo Wales keynoting a fake news conference?
Intel ME controller chip has secret kill switch
World Vasectomy Day: 15k men line up for live vent-blocking
HPE HQ to leave Palo Alto birthplace as it 'consolidates' offices
Hells door-bells! Ring pieces paralyzed in horror during Halloween trick-or-treat rush
Biz quadruples value overnight by adding 'Blockchain' to name
Computers4Christians miraculously appears on Ubuntu wiki
HPE sharpening the axe for 5,000 heads – report
Kill Google AMP before it kills the web
Ad flog Plus: Adblock Plus now an advertising network, takes cash to broker web banners
Re: Not really much of a market
You wouldn't refuse to go into a supermarket and buy food there simply because they also have other things on display you don't want to see on the way in and demand they only display the things you want
How about if the stockboys nicked your wallet, or you came out and your car was gone?
Re: Not really much of a market
So because you hate advertising, you find the the things you want by using a search engine, which displays ads (or sponsored results if you prefer to call them that) in your search results and which is run by one of the largest advertising companies on the planet.
Between uBlock and NoScript, I don't see said ads or sponsored results.
US govt ceases fire in legal spat with Twitter to unmask anti-Trump 'immigration official'
Carnegie-Mellon Uni emits 'don't be stupid' list for C++ developers
What a Flake: Congress mulls trashing privacy rules, letting ISPs go to town on your data
Facebook, Instagram: No, you can't auto-slurp our profiles (cough, cough, border officials)
Force employees to take DNA tests for bosses? We've got a new law to make that happen, beam House Republicans
Re: LDS Sure it will lower employer costs and promote an healthy workforce...
Unless you don't quite realize that precisely 100% (one hundred percent, I'm neither rounding this up nor making it up) of those companies' customers exist because, at some point, a woman got pregnant.
Which is perfectly fine - as long as it's some other company's employees that get knocked up.
Microsoft nicks one more Apple idea: An ad-supported OS
Marissa! Mayer! out! as! CEO! of! Yahoo! corpse! post-Verizon! gobble!
Oh, 3PAR. One moment you're gliding along. The next, you're in the rain as HPE woos Nimble
Passport and binary tree code, please: CompSci quizzes at US border just business as usual
Silicon Valley tech bro's solution for homeless: Getting himself in the news. Again.
Re: The thing people ignore about homelessness in SF and a lot of California
And before all the Defenders start with the "Reagan emptied the asylums" rhetoric-the average age of homeless in counties like Santa Clara and San Francisco is nowhere near old enough to have been involved in the State mental health system
I shitteth thee not - I saw a 20-something "homeless" kid a while back with a "Vietnam Vet - Please help" sign.
How to nuke websites you don't like: Slam Google with millions of bogus DMCA takedowns
HPE CEO Whitman says everything's 'on the right track' as sales are literally decimated
Did Oracle just sign tape's death warrant? Depends what 'no comment' means
Zuckerberg thinks he's cyber-Jesus – and publishes a 6,000-word world-saving manifesto
GoDaddy CEO says US is 'tech illiterate' (so, yeah, don't shut off that cheap H-1B supply)
Parents have no idea when kidz txt m8s 'KMS' or '99'
A non-Standards Soviet approved measure of weight? Sod off, BBC!
Why does it cost 20 times as much to protect Mark Zuckerberg as Tim Cook?
Trump's visa plan leaks: American techies first
It's taken two weeks of chaos, but at last Trump has got a policy that actually has some logic and sense behind it.
Don't hold your breath. As soon as those with the money and motives get to him, his position will morph. People seem to forget that his MO is to request something extreme, then "graciously" accept a more reasonable counter-offer which was what he actually wanted in the first place. The fact that he gets away with this time and time again - even after publishing his strategy, speaks to the idiocy of those that deal with him.
Zuck off: Facebook's big kahuna sues Hawaiians to kick 'em off their land
Fitbit kit not a hit
Fitbit kit is shit
My wife has gone through two of them - on the first one, the non-replaceable band disintegrated, the second one just displays the FitBit equivalent of the BSOD. Since it's past the 45-day "warranty" ( https://www.fitbit.com/legal/returns-and-warranty ) she's not amenable to the idea of buying yet another one. I bought one for myself at the same time I bought hers, but the thrill of watching its random number generator of steps and stairs soon wore off. I had also bought a fitbit Aria scale, which is supposed to automatically update your fitbit account with your weight and body fat data, but it only supports 802.11b - which means it's incompatible with any consumer-grade router built after 2003.
Oracle sues its own star sales rep after she wins back $200k in pay fight
Re: Oracle Corporation
I see this a lot in the US, companies set goals and when the sales people exceed
Moving the goalposts is a just another corporate pastime; it doesn't just happen with salespeople. If any goal is exceeded, it must have been too easy; conversely, if you don't reach said arbitrary goal, you're useless dead weight which must be trimmed.
Trump's FBI boss, Attorney General picks reckon your encryption's getting backdoored
Facebook, Cumulus take on Cisco with 128 ports of open networking iron
Learn to code site Code.org loses student work due to index bug
Solaris 12 disappears from Oracle's roadmap
Trump fan Peter Thiel 'considering' CA Terminator role*
Re: How much money spent campaigning???
Mrs. Clinton out-spent Trump by a fairly large percentage, as I understand it. She still lost.
Trump was able to leverage his celebrity status to get free media coverage, and when that wasn't enough, he just ran his mouth or his twatter account, which the media fawned over. It's estimated that the resulting free media coverage was worth between $2 billion and $5 billion