That whole "the IRS is targeting conservatives" rhetoric is pure propaganda. Reality is that the IRS targeted people who publicly posted things like "the IRS is unconstitutional" or "I don't believe in paying income taxes". It shouldn't be a surprise that most of them are right-wing nutjobs.

And for decades thereafter Republican politicians pushed for cheap overseas labor to help their corporate donors increase profits, and whenever Democrats objected to try to keep American factory workers employed, they were called "protectionist" as if protecting American jobs was a bad thing. Now the Republicans want to take credit for the notion of bringing back the jobs that they eliminated.

The first iPhone also had visual voicemail, which was completely new and innovative and a vast improvement over the existing approach.

It also introduced swiping and other gestures like pinch to zoom. Apple didn't invent these things, but Blackberrys and the original Android phones still used physical buttons for scrolling. I don't think the original Androids even had a touchscreen.

And you left out an absolutely absurd claim by the parent poster: "The last actual innovation that came from tech was a smartphone."

The Apple Magic Trackpad would have been a better choice at $129, because it offers Force Touch technology, which means that when you desperately push hard at the top of the pad while screaming "GO UP! GO UP!!!!!" it could tell the display to pop up a window that says "System Malfunction. Please contact administrator".

. . . can win Darwin awards.

I posted this April Fool's joke years ago, but not on April Fool's day:

https://f6ffb3fa-34ce-43c1-939d-77e64deb3c0c.atarimworker.io/comments....

Haha, no way this story is true.

I remember the good old days of Slashdot when *every* posted story was an April Fools joke. In the early days, most were pretty clever. Then they got lame. Now they're gone. Sniff.

WORK's market cap is $25 billion. This is what the market perceives as the net present value of the company. Simple as that.

I don't know of too many companies that would spend tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, or perhaps millions of dollars to "move off of Java", i.e., rewrite everything from scratch in a different language.

They search for alternatives, like using Amazon Corretto - a free, supported version of Java based on OpenJDK. Amazon is taking security fixes for newer OpenJDK versions and backporting them to Java 8 and Java 11 so that companies with a significant Java investment can continue to use those versions without paying the high support costs that Oracle is charging.

A lot of people don't understand that OpenJDK is controlled by Oracle. It's Oracle's developers supporting the project. And hence, the lack of security fixes for older OpenJDK releases.

Iâ(TM)m deleting my real personal account, but keeping the fake ones, comrade.

Apparently you've never seen The Crying Game.

Well, we should soon have no problem growing crops all over the world, then: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fclimate.nasa.gov%2Fsyste...

I agree with this. In my 25+ years of experience I've found that managers generally have good people skills which help them to delegate and motivate, good planning skills, good organizational skills, etc. They rarely have great analytical ability or creativity.

In the olden days of Slashdot, there would have also been something about a Beowulf cluster of these. Ah, the good old days.