Posts by 273 Kelvin

Probe: How IBM ousts older staff, replaces them with young blood

Looking around at the IBMers I've seen, any redundancies are bound to affect older people. IBM is either the grey-beard lifers, or fresh out of college. Median age must be about 50. There's a missing generation at IBM, from about 30-45.

I guess that's because IBM have been such a bad employer over the last 8 years (ish) that the aspiring folk left for greener pastures, leaving the oldies & the graduate program.

IBM's homomorphic encryption accelerated to run 75 times faster

So, 100 trillion times slower, speeded up by 2 million times, then by 75 times, isn't that still 666k times slower?

No wonder it's still in research!

Simply not credible: The extraordinary verdict against the body that hopes to run the internet

Voluntary?

"Also in 2015, the chair of the BGC, Chris Disspain, received [PDF] $145,000 in compensation, payment and reimbursements for the part-time voluntary work he carried out for ICANN"

That's nice. He volunteers & gets a sack of cash. This is a different definition of voluntary work than I'm used to!

Nice gig to get.