@scottalanmiller said in Comcast and AT&T laying off thousands after claims that tax discounts will create jobs:

The article says that people were fired, not layed off. Very different things. Fired means that they weren't doing their jobs, or were getting in trouble. Not that they were no longer needed. To fire someone requires a very different reaction to the IRS than laying them off. You lay people off when you re-org. So something fishy with the article.

Yes, the article is using click bait terms of course.

While firing and laying off are very different things to the IRS, that does not mean that firing is only done to people that were not doing their jobs or were getting into trouble.

If a firm wants to simply get rid of a person or persons, they can simply fire them for no reason if they so desire in most states.

But on the subject of the linked article, the people were giving severance packages and required to sign NDAs about them. So layed off is not what happened. Employment was terminated, so fired is a correct term, if someone baited in this instance.

@tim_g said in Happy New Year 2018:

Still 2017 for me... how's 2018 looking so far?

Its good to hear the Wishes from every nooks and corners inside Office as well as Outside office.There are many people visited their nearer Gods and Workship starts and then many with new dresses and Party

@scottalanmiller said in Vultr Dallas Outage:

We've not seen an issue, but Vultr listed that there was a problem.

Have an Opensips node there, took it offline for latency issues. Didnt realize there was an actual outage until someone else mentioned it to me just now.

@coliver said in What Net Neutrality Means to You SAMIT Video:

@scottalanmiller said in What Net Neutrality Means to You SAMIT Video:

@wirestyle22 said in What Net Neutrality Means to You SAMIT Video:

BREAKING: Senator Chuck Schumer says there will be a Senate Vote to overturn the FCC's ruling on Net Neutrality -- Only a simple majority will be required to overturn the ruling.

Sadly, he needs a majority but the R have the majority and don't want to vote against the companies that have them in their pockets. And there is no point to doing so as this was Trump's boi in the FCC and Trump has veto. So while CHuck is doing a good thing, it won't make any difference.

It's posturing. Seems more like he knows it won't work and is just prepping for 2018 at this point.

He and Booker are top considerations for president so, very likely.

15. No Blocking. Consumers who subscribe to a retail broadband Internet access service
must get what they have paid for—access to all (lawful) destinations on the Internet. This essential and
well-accepted principle has long been a tenet of Commission policy, stretching back to its landmark
decision in Carterfone, which protected a customer’s right to connect a telephone to the monopoly
telephone network.

@bigbear said in Windows 10 Now Includes SSH Client and Server Out of the Box:

FireSSH

Looks like FireSSH is not compatible with Firefox Quantum.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/firessh/

@dashrender said in Ubiquiti publicly rolls out UNMS Beta:

@scottalanmiller said in Ubiquiti publicly rolls out UNMS Beta:

@dashrender said in Ubiquiti publicly rolls out UNMS Beta:

@scottalanmiller said in Ubiquiti publicly rolls out UNMS Beta:

@dashrender said in Ubiquiti publicly rolls out UNMS Beta:

@scottalanmiller said in Ubiquiti publicly rolls out UNMS Beta:

@dashrender said in Ubiquiti publicly rolls out UNMS Beta:

@scottalanmiller said in Ubiquiti publicly rolls out UNMS Beta:

@dashrender said in Ubiquiti publicly rolls out UNMS Beta:

@scottalanmiller said in Ubiquiti publicly rolls out UNMS Beta:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_release_life_cycle

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Beta literally means it's not reached candidacy for release yet. RC is still not released, but is what they might consider for release once tested. Notice Beta is in the middle of the "non-released" period.

These are as the terms have always been used, even going back to the early 1980s and, I assume, long before that. Release being such a structured term that it is nearly impossible to define released without using the term released itself.

While I'm sure this has no baring in reality - for me release is a point but the public can get support for the thing.

That's not quite accurate. There is no reason that something unreleased can't offer support. How else do you really do your testing, get feedback, and so forth? It's an expectation that anything that the public can get would get some amount of support most likely, because otherwise, what is the purpose of the public nature of the testing?

Perhaps I should have added the words "expect to" to the support portion. As you said with the other thread, There should be no expectation of support for the product that was still in beta.

So, here is a question then, does Microsoft ever release software? Because nothing that MS makes comes with support.

What about Debian Linux, is it ever released?

Expect <> free.

But free software has all the same release guidelines as commercial software. And MS products aren't normally free.

Again - what does cost have to do with anything?

As I also said - you'd all probably disagree with me.

Because you mentioned it in the post I quoted.

Please highlight the part where I mentioned costs.

Same thing I quoted and you responded to.

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@mlnews Now we just need to make sure it is supposed to be MSI or CLick to run 🙂

@coliver said in Asus and HP Announce First Windows 10 ARM Laptops:

Wasn't the original surface an arm tablet?

Yeah

While this isn't full session replay, Piwik allows you to capture full keystrokes on any website you setup and it's fully free to use. Not something that's advertised but super simple to do and setup.

@aaronstuder said in Vultr now doing Bare Metal.:

@tim_g I understand but still no where close to $300.

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Also, if you wanted to, you could buy 2 😉

While that company is a good value, and where I currently run my home lab from. The first of the two servers I had with them had all kinds of drive issues, even after the HDDs were replaced. Many support cases later, I ended up just moving it all to a different server. Would never trust them to run actual workloads, sadly.

@stacksofplates said in Some macOS Updates Cause Foot Bug to Resurface After Patching:

I'm assuming this was supposed to be root but, not foot bug.

LOL hahha

@tim_g said in Quad9 DNS Malicious Domain Blocking Service:

I stopped testing Quad9 on my computer. I've been having some weird issues with GitLab errors on the website. As soon as I plugged in Google's DNS, it worked.

But then again, a refresh or two got it working again while I was still using Quad9.

I'll update later to report if any issue like that returns now that I'm using Google on my computer.

Nope, was not Quad9 related.

I think it's some kind of timeout I never noticed before or GitLab is having issues.

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