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byZontar_Thing_From_Ve
ay January 21, 2026 @10:22AM
(#65939610)
Attached to: Verizon Wastes No Time Switching Device Unlock Policy To 365 Days
I've been on Slashdot a long time. So back in the 2000s when iphones came out, we kept constantly seeing posts from Slashdotters saying "I just want a phone that's a phone". This lasted for several years. It was really annoying. So based on the posts here, now I know what has replaced it. Now it's "You need a cheaper phone if you can't buy it outright". Geez.
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byZontar_Thing_From_Ve
January 18, 2026 @05:28PM
(#65933434)
Attached to: Microsoft Forced to Issue Emergency Out-of-Band Windows Update
How on earth do you introduce a bug in handling POP3 protocol? Surely that code was mature by the turn of the last century.
It's a long story I will condense somewhat, but in the early 2010s I worked for a Fortune 500 company where we had a similar stupid "How did this happen?" problem. We had assigned an H1-B guy to write the code for a new feature on our department's main product. The manager guy in charge of our product stopped doing code reviews because they took time. So new guy wrote code that sort of worked in that the new feature did work, but it never freed up the memory it used after the user stopped using the feature. We tested it by letting 10% of our customers use it and had no problems because those 10% of the customers never used up enough memory with the feature to cause our DBs any problems. When we made it available to all customers, it quickly starved our DBs of memory when some big customers used it and we crashed hard. Took us 5 days to find it and fix it. So my guess on personal experience is that Microsoft assigned it to an H1-B guy who mostly hired because he was cheap and nobody cared enough to check his work.
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byZontar_Thing_From_Ve
January 16, 2026 @10:36AM
(#65929198)
Attached to: 'Star Wars' Boss Kathleen Kennedy Steps Down From Lucasfilm
Any independent viewer looking at the first three Star Wars film would agree they were fantastic movies on many levels.
Any independent viewer looking at what Kennedy made would agree that they were cheesy, needlessly woke, and simply not good movies.
I really think you're blaming the wrong person here. Lucas made the 3 prequel films. He's not a good writer. He deserves the blame for what people don't like in films 1-3, meaning the prequels. The "classic" original Star Wars trilogy is films 4-6. The final 3 films, 7-9, have J.J. Abrams to blame. What you object to is his fault. Somehow, nobody ever holds him accountable but here is how he works. His basic premise is that he claims to be a "fan" of Star Wars, Trek, etc. but he clearly thinks that those things are somehow broken and only he can fix them. And part of his "fixing" is to remake a previous film and pass it off as new. Abrams is terrible. I blame him for the interesting mess that Star Trek: Discovery season 1 was, which caused the people actually running Trek to have to spend all of season 2 fixing the season 1 problems and plot holes. On paper he was supposedly just a producer, but somebody either let him have too much input into it or they simply bought into his basic premise that Trek is horribly broken and only by changing everything can it be "saved". His 3 reboot movie were entertaining enough, but honestly if they never make a fourth film in the series, I'm fine with that. I don't want him involved in anything Star Wars or Trek related going forward.
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byZontar_Thing_From_Ve
January 05, 2026 @01:20PM
(#65903595)
Attached to: Influencers and OnlyFans Models Dominate US 'Extraordinary' Artist Visas
This is the same type of Visa that Trump used to bring his current wife into the country with.
All reliable sources say that they didn't meet until after she came to the USA, so it's not correct to say Donald Trump got her the visa. The USA has been doing bs like this with those types of visas for many decades now. I'm not going to name the guy or his wife as they no longer live in the USA, but one famous NHL player met his wife in the USA when she was somehow given one of these visas. I would give almost anything to see what the hell her application said to justify getting it, but as best I can tell, if good looking white women who can or could model applied for these visas, they were often if not always approved.
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byZontar_Thing_From_Ve
y January 01, 2026 @03:51PM
(#65895465)
Attached to: Public Domain Day 2026 Brings Betty Boop, Nancy Drew and 'I Got Rhythm' Into the Commons
Why do we have super long copyrights? Disney. ....
V) It allows for more unique cases like "Its a wonderful life" that only becomes famous BECAUSE it was not copyrighted.
This is wrong. It's A Wonderful Life was copyrighted. The copyright wasn't renewed in 1974 by what is called a "clerical error" (probably means somebody forgot to do the paperwork) by the company that bought the rights to the film some time after it was released. Stuff like this played a role in why the somewhat infamous Sonny Bono Copyright Extension Act had a provision to automatically renew copyrights for free since various things had entered the public domain because somebody forgot to do some paperwork. I would argue that if the copyrights are so valuable then they shouldn't be renewed for free, but that's beyond the scope of why the film entered the public domain.
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byZontar_Thing_From_Ve
December 29, 2025 @06:51PM
(#65889153)
Attached to: Sam Altman Offers $555K Salary To Fill Most Daunting Role In AI
If this is such a specialized role, why would they not want to give this role to someone already 'in the know'?
Not ruling out that it's a way to manipulate the changing H-1B visa rules for this job. Maybe Altman has some guy in mind from India for it but he feels like he needs to publicly "try" to fill it with an American by offering a salary and job description almost no US citizen actually qualified for the job would accept. Then when no US person wants it, he can shrug and claim he tried and "reluctantly" fill it with the guy from India he wanted anyway. I worked all of the previous decade for a US company in the bottom part of the Fortune 500 (meaning a lot closer to being company #500 than company #1) and my company used to do this kind of thing. One time we put out a job description with a requirement for a master's degree in chip design and some rather exotic and rarely used computer language coding experience (I remember having to look up like 3 or 4 programming languages to find out what they were) and all the guy was going to do was write Java code for a specific product we sold. That salary is a joke for the job. But it's not a joke for an H-1B guy.
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byZontar_Thing_From_Ve
y December 25, 2025 @07:31PM
(#65882135)
Attached to: Wall Street Has Stopped Rewarding 'Strategic' Layoffs
The reason not to go public is that Wall Street has a tendency to force your company to stray from its mission in favor of faster growth. Case in point, southwest airlines: You can't be the most loved airline if you're going to throw out basically everything that your customers liked about you to begin with.
I actually hate Southwest Airlines and refuse to fly them because I don't like how they run their airline. And I have had enough of their fans who get screwed over by them (We bumped you - ha ha ha!) and act like all their bs is somehow "normal".
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byZontar_Thing_From_Ve
y December 04, 2025 @01:54PM
(#65835745)
Attached to: RAM Is So Expensive, Samsung Won't Even Sell It To Samsung
US auto manufacturer General Motors became infamous in the 1990s when it got out that their various divisions were mostly trying to outdo each other and viewed corporate siblings with more disdain than they did actual outside competitors like Ford, Toyota, etc. "Sux to be YOU, Samsung Electronics" can't be the correct reply here. Where is the CEO to step in and fix this?
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byZontar_Thing_From_Ve
y November 20, 2025 @07:21PM
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Attached to: CDC Changes Webpage To Say Vaccines May Cause Autism, Revising Prior Language
Nobody except the morons who voted for the orange one trust US institutions anyway.
It's actually the exact opposite. Most of his voters voted for him specifically because they do not trust US institutions. Remember that Ronald Reagan guy? I voted for him. Mostly liked what he did. The stuff I didn't like, most of his supporters didn't care about. But the worst thing he ever did was give his infamous "Government is the problem" speech. So Orange Man was voted in by a lot of people who specifically wanted him to fire a bunch of government workers and make trust in US institutions at an all time low.
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byZontar_Thing_From_Ve
y November 20, 2025 @01:09PM
(#65807479)
Attached to: Disney Loses Bid To Block Sling TV's One-Day Cable Passes
I guess the case went something like this:
Disney Lawyers: Our contract with Sling specifically says they have to have customers on monthly contracts. Slam dunk win for us, Judge!
Judge: Did you actually the contract you referred to?
DL: Uh, well, no, but somebody told me that is what it said.
J: Well I did actually read it as it's kind of important to this case and it says nothing of the sort in there.
DL: Um, still win for us, right?
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byZontar_Thing_From_Ve
y November 15, 2025 @02:17PM
(#65797715)
Attached to: GM Wants Parts Makers To Pull Supply Chains From China
Up until 2025, the answer was it's easier to get along with the U.S.
With the erratic policies and random tariffs of the U.S., however, it has become easier to get along with China, which, if nothing else, does not change their policies on a whim.
This is so not true. China is anything but a reliable partner. In the latter part of the previous decade, the Chinese government cracked down on the rapidly rising Chinese FinTech industry because a small number of CEOs in the industry, including Jack Ma, said things they didn't like. You know how you basically don't hear anything from Jack Ma anymore and how he is retired from Alibaba? This is why. The government clapped down that industry hard. The companies involved have never really recovered from it, with their stock prices stagnating. It's because investors realized that at any time, the Chinese government can and will intervene in the stock market to make a point about how in charge they are. A few years ago the government had to say publicly that they are totally not going to interfere in businesses again, please come back noble investors. All I can say is a really smart man said last year that investing in communism is a bad idea.
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byZontar_Thing_From_Ve
y November 13, 2025 @09:49AM
(#65793066)
Attached to: Alien: Earth Renewed For Second Season
I'm a big sci fi fan in general. I am much less critical of just about anything I watch than many/most people. Having said that, I watched all of Alien: Earth and I did not love it. Some of the actors were really good, but there were too many episodes and overall it just wasn't all that interesting to me. But I'm not surprised at all that Disney renewed it and threw money at the creator because they really don't know what they are doing in running that company any more. It is possible that for whatever reason it got a crap ton of views. And we've seen in the past that some Disney series get a crap ton of views even though nobody likes them. The Acolyte became their 2nd most watched series of 2024 once they canceled it and nobody liked that show. Percy Jackson and the Olympians gets a ton of views, but I honestly don't know anybody who watches that. Maybe it's aimed at tweens. Marvel keeps giving us shows nobody asked for with fringe comic book characters like Iron Heart and the upcoming Wonder Man. So it makes perfect sense that they would throw a ton of money at a streaming series that just wasn't all that good and bring it back for more of the same. I'm really not sure I'm going to come back for season 2. I'm starting to get really tired of feeling like I have to watch something that isn't actually very good just because it's in a genre I like.
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byZontar_Thing_From_Ve
ay November 12, 2025 @01:34PM
(#65790676)
Attached to: Ryanair Tries Forcing App Downloads By Eliminating Paper Boarding Passes
Acceptable Identification at the TSA Checkpoint
Don’t Have Your Acceptable ID?
The TSA officer may ask you to complete an identity verification process which includes collecting information such as your name and current address to confirm your identity. If your identity is confirmed, you will be allowed to enter the screening checkpoint, where you may be subject to additional screening.
US ciitizen here. That's important to what I have to say. While this all sounds great, you clearly don't know that many times the US government says they will accept something as proof of ID but in reality they won't accept it, even though their own website says they will. And there's nothing in what you quoted that guarantees that such alternate ID process can be done in time to actually make your flight.
About 20 years ago, I had to fill out a government form and I was required to show 2 proofs of who I was. Their own website said that they would accept a birth certificate as proof. I had it! Not only did I have a birth certificate, for another reason I had actually gotten it certified by my birth state and the US Secretary of State. You'd think having Colin Powell certify it would be good enough, right? Nope. They refused to accept it with no explanation. Talked to a friend who had done the same thing recently and he used copy of his passport as proof of ID, which they accepted. So I sent them a copy of my passport's main pages and I was good to go. So good luck with that whole thing of TSA having "other" ways to identify you.
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byZontar_Thing_From_Ve
y October 30, 2025 @08:30AM
(#65761020)
Attached to: Mother Describes the Dark Side of Apple's Family Sharing
I don't know these people and I'm not going to dive into their defunct marriage. But I can tell you the following.
Tracking minor children and making them account for their screen time isn't necessarily a bad thing. And I can promise you that if the mother was doing this and her ex-husband said that this was "evil" she would arguing that it wasn't.
Women will sometimes do anything to get back at their ex when relationships end. Early in my career, a lady in what I will call a sister office (her manager and my manager had the same manager) had a daughter who got divorced. The daughter and her ex-husband had 2 daughters in the marriage. The lady's daughter got the kids on a custodial visit (the ex-husband actually had custody) and killed them both and then herself just to get back at the ex-husband. So I'm not really moved by some ex-wife crying how unfair her ex-husband is.
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byZontar_Thing_From_Ve
October 28, 2025 @01:05PM
(#65756104)
Attached to: George Orwell Classics Get New Lease of Life In Welsh
Hoch Ha'DIbaHvam rurbogh bIH rap, 'ach latlh rapqu' law' latlh rapqu' puS.
I'm not kidding about this. I didn't see your subject but I saw what you posted and I thought that might be what Animal Farm looked like in Welsh.
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