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Software piracy, long a source of anxiety among app makers and large software companies, may have some beneficial effects. So, stop paying for software and it will get so much better?
Except *my* software, of course.
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Looking at how many companies nowadays work... the challenge is to find something really worth to pay for.
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AI systems cannot be granted patents and will not be recognised as inventors in the eyes of the US law, said a federal judge who decided to uphold a previous ruling by the US Patent and Trademark Office this week. What if they invent a better AI that invents a better AI?
GOTO 10
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Kent Sharkey wrote: What if they invent a better AI that invents a better AI?
I hope not this...[^] 
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Managers of business technologies (e.g., Salesforce, Slack, Gmail, Workday) are motivated to push forward a new wave of “no-code” and “low-code” development. I'll go out on a limb and guess, "money?"
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Kind of mandatory[^]
If someone ever comes with that, I will very probably say... well, then do it yourself.
When they come for the second time asking for help... I will ask for a rise.
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Not an article. Rejected.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Microsoft started pushing promotional notifications on the latest builds of Windows 11 which is currently still in Beta, perhaps showing off how you can never really escape advertising. You can never have too many advertisements
RIP Ed Asner, for one of my favourite SNL sketches.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: You can never have too many advertisements
Yes, we can...
Another thing is what they think
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Microsoft Insider testers may get to try out the Android Subsystem for Windows sooner rather than later, based on the existence of a placeholder app in the Microsoft Store. Soon you'll be able to crush candy on your PC
Yeah, I know you already can, but I couldn't think of any games on Android but not on PC. I'm so out of the loop.
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Placeholder = Not full yet = Hole...
And being a new windows, to be pressumed a big security hole 
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A researcher from AWS has combined two quantum processors to create near-perfect randomness. It could help improve modern cryptography protocols. It's easier to flip coins than quantum computers though
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Until the next quantum computer cracks it?
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Digital devices and technologies can enhance the way we learn and work. You're doing that all on your own
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They can say what they want... if I really want to be effective learning something (specially if you can't practice from the very beginning) I prefer paper form.
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US Air Force Chief Software Officer Quits - Slashdot[^]
He complains that unqaulified people are put in charge of projects. While that *is* true, the problem goes beyond just the managers. It happens at EVERY LEVEL.
When I got my current job (DoD contractor for an Air Force software project), we had a GS (civilian) employee occupying a programming seat that had NO EXPERIENCE WHATSOEVER as a programmer. She was a diversity hire, and had no interest in even learning how to write code. In the three years she was on the team, she made exactly zero check-ins into source control. Completely useless, yet she got paid for doing nothing because once you become a GS employee, it takes an actual act of Congress for you to be fired. Instead, you get shuffled off to yet another job you're probably not qualified to do, or even worse, you're promoted (again, into a position you're not qualified for).
It's maddening to watch projects go down in flames because of unqualified people filling positions all up and down the food chain. I've been a DoD contractor on and off since 1980, and it's always the same story.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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#realJSOP wrote: I've been a DoD contractor on and off since 1980, and it's always the same story
I hear you John. I was a defense contractor during the 80's. My complaints were two-fold. The first was similar to yours, so I won't repeat it. The second was I'd work on a project for months, we'd complete it, and it would be dumped down a hole never to be seen again. I remember reading an article at the time that claimed less than 2% of software written for the DoD was in active use 12 months after its completion.
Since 1990 I've been working in the commercial world. It has its downsides, but at least my stuff gets used.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Years ago, I used to work for the Dept. of Health and Human Services as a contractor.
Similar issue there as well. People getting paid very well for doing absolutely nothing all day, month, years.
The cancer has spread to all of Federal and State government agencies and offices. The prognosis is terminal.
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Seems in the military the browner the nose the higher and faster you rise. It has nothing to do with ability.
The less you need, the more you have.
Even a blind squirrel gets a nut...occasionally.
JaxCoder.com
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I did four years at CBP/DHS. Same story there.
An example. I had to stand by and watch a guy, who got paid about 50% more than what I made, struggle to build a new Windows Server and couldn't figure out how to set a static IP address, FROM A SCRIPT HE WAS FOLLOWING, complete with screenshots.
I was not allowed to help.
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I wonder if/how that position is different than any other lead position in any other department? If it's no different, then this guy was either a fool for excepting the position and should have left the military long ago, or he was just as incompetent? Sounds like he has a good head on his shoulders though so maybe he'll wind up on a congressional committee that can perhaps affect change.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
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#realJSOP wrote: Instead, you get shuffled off to yet another job you're probably not qualified to do, or even worse, you're promoted (again, into a position you're not qualified for).
That doesn't happen in the US or in the DoD... in Germany is done A LOT specially in big OEMs and in Functionary Jobs
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I hear your pain but that it's not only a government disease. The small company I used to work for got acquired by a big corporation (after I left) because the CEO of the big corporation believed in "R&D through acquisitions". Needless to say, things didn't go well. Also, a friend told me IBM stands for "I've Been Moved" for the numerous reorganizations he had to go through.
I posit that inefficiencies are just a function of the size of an organization and government is a VERY big organization. In small shops things can be very smooth and efficient but once it starts growing, forget about that.
Worse: the inefficiencies do not grow linearly with organization's size. It's more like exponential growth. I seem to remember having even seen some kind of explanation for this. It has to do with the number of people that need to communicate with each other.
Mircea
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I have very little hope for this 10 gigadollar project Amazon and Microsoft have been battling over.
The very concept of a project of that magnitude going to the "lowest" bidder is just flabbergasting.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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The types of things you describe are some of the reasons I would never work for a government agency. I also have other reasons, but going into them isn't appropriate here.
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