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Bug Hunter, a young loner on a crusade to champion the cause of the innocent, the helpless, the powerless, in a world of criminals who operate above the law.
Helped by (Root)Kitt.
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Totally read that in the "Macgyver voice" 
Or was it the A-Team voice? Now I'm not sure.
TTFN - Kent
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Come on! Knight Industries Two Thousand (K.I.T.T.).
Knight Rider.
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Sorry, man. I need to go back and watch a few.
TTFN - Kent
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Yeah. Loved that show and Baywatch.
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Malware can steal passwords, bitcoin wallets, software keys, carry out DDoS attacks and more - and a campaign distributing it is targeting telecommunications, insurance and financial services This news brought to you every day since 1990
Or thereabouts (I'm too lazy to look up the actual release year)
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A third of employees are currently looking for new jobs and over 86 percent claim that the broken IT processes are the driving factor in their decision to leave their position, according to a new study funded by workflow solution provider Nintex. "Promises and Pye-Crusts,… are made to be broken."
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Freelancing specialist Toptal released a list of the most in-demand development technologies for 2018, with Angular 2 and React Native heading the list. "Fashion, turn to the left. Fashion, turn to the right"
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The Wine team is proud to announce that the stable release Wine 3.0 is now available. New wine is always welcome
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Kent Sharkey wrote: New wine is always welcome
But a vintage wine is better! 
Latest Article - Code Review - What You Can Learn From a Single Line of Code
Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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But is it just new wine in old systems?
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That's a bad idea, because new wine will expand causing he old system to break. 
When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others.
Same thing when you are stupid.
modified 19-Nov-21 21:01pm.
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That would have been a much better blurb, thank you (my brains weren't working that life)
TTFN - Kent
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And here I thought you were Jesus, returned to us.
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Sitting in a bar, you start chatting to a man who issues you a challenge. He hands you five red and two black cards. After shuffling, you lay them on the bar, face down. He bets you that you cannot turn over three red cards. Alternately, how to cover your tab tonight
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If anyone ever bets you something you can be assured that it's heavily in his favor.
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I bet that you are right! Wanna challenge me for a ![Beer | [beer]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/beer.gif) ?
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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So that's why I mostly lose at poker!
Latest Article - Code Review - What You Can Learn From a Single Line of Code
Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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When developers hear the word union, they usually think of SQL. Programmers know SQL unions well, but, given the hours of unpaid overtime they put in, why don’t they know more about labor unions? "Stand up, stand and unite. It's time for a general strike."
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I don't want a union because the last thing I need to do is give some guy my money that just sits around doing nothing but demanding my employer give higher pay and better benefits. That's my job.
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The age of the unions is over. They served their purpose.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: The age of the unions is over. They served their purpose.
Not in every country - we need new unions though because the old ones sold out and regularly trample over the rights we have obtained together with the employers.
GCS d-- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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In that case, the fourty-hour workweek is also "over".
Unions are the only thing that protects the employee, and very valuable for keeping unskilled work from becoming slave-work. These people can be threathened in their jobs, and they need that protection from abuse of power that arises from them being very replaceable.
I do not need that protection. Anyone giving me their keys to their computer will need to trust me. There's no way you can threathen me on the job - if you think you can find someone better to do it, by all means, be my guest. Do consider that I may not hang around and may be occupied when you get back 
I simply don't need a union.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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was anarchist (lib-soc primarily) for 26 years.
my spouse is a delegate for our local chapter of IWW.
I support workers who desire to organized. But I also know that unions, given the NLRA and Taft-Hartley restrictions especially, cannot hope to compete with multinationals. It would require cross industry strikes and secondary boycotts (that last one being explicitly illegal in the US)
I was also a software developer for years. Headhunters at least offer some pushback against employers. There's some degree of "organizing on my behalf" at the recruiter level. Meaning an outfit like RhoTec or Excell Data can negotiate salary and benefits on my behalf. I also recognize that such a model is not without its problems, having faced them at many points. And ultimately they're in it for the outfit, not me as an individual, but also ultimately business unions (as opposed to a true workers union) already operate that way.
Workers' best hope in the long term is automation and AI pushing workers and even developers out of the labor pool.
Because global western capitalism at this point has concentrated over half the worlds wealth under the control of less than 80 people. The only way to defeat such a power imbalance is to let it eat itself.
Automation will exit the consumer pool from the labor force. Robots and software don't draw a salary, but they also don't buy much (even counting maintenance and energy costs)
Meaning automation (even of development) will make capitalism *at least as it exists now in globalized west) ultimately obsolete.
The wealthy once they both control the means of production, and all of labor, will find nobody (or at least not enough) consumers left who are in a position to buy their goods. Because few people have jobs anymore.
Requiring them ultimately to either go broke, or give dividends of the automation back to everyone else for "free" (using the term loosely), just to keep the whole cycle moving.
That's not to say there won't be a lot of pain among displaced former employees as this happens. But it either moves away from the capitalist/consumer model or it just collapses like a flan in a cupboard once there are not enough viable consumers to maintain the producers.
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All unions do is spread trouble and misery. It's refreshing to at least see someone admit it.
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