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Comment Re:Or how about this novel solution? (Score 2) 38

It actually is that hard, sometimes.

Often, jobs have a culture which have become structured so that you must be responsive, if not 24/7, then at the least during your work hours, to IMs. Step away from your desk for 30m to eat lunch or whatever? People are going to start calling you in many of these (IMO toxic) environments.

And frankly, it's required for some jobs (like in support roles). You've got to be available and IM is used for coordinating on the ground.

I've told people I am simply not available on IM platforms on my phone, I won't even install them if I can avoid it. This has caused some backlash, admittedly, but it's sanity worth preserving. If it's important, think it out a bit more and send me an email.

There's no good solution for this, unfortunately, particularly when everyone's set on using Slack for everything.

Comment Re:Maybe... (Score 1) 38

Most laptop sizes are dictated by the screen size. On most modern laptops, the keyboard usually doesn't even fill up the bottom half of the laptop.

The Thinkpad 701 was tiny, less than 10 inches wide, 640x480 LCD. Wikipedia says:

The 701 was discontinued because the keyboard design was no longer a necessity after screen sizes increased.

Comment Re: I remember what I was relieved... (Score 1) 243

Well there was this thing in 2001 and we all went a little crazy then the Bush admin took complete advantage of that and got us into basically Vietnam 2.0 via lies,

If Bush hadn't invaded Iraq, then Putin wouldn't have invaded Ukraine. It's the mistake that keeps on giving.

Comment Re:I remember what I was relieved... (Score 1) 243

I was relieved when, back around 1997, Ukraine gave up their Nuclear weapons. They agreed to be a peaceful, and decent nation

It wasn't about Ukraine being a peaceful nation. It was about Ukraine selling basically every weapon in their inventory. No one wanted the nuclear weapons to end up in the hands of terrorists. Russia did a better job of securing weapons than Ukraine.

America agreed to defend them in the case of a Russian invasion

The Budapest Memorandum was way too optimistic. It said the problem would be resolved in the UN.

Comment Gross incompetency in IT security (Score 1) 24

Very few businesses that are involved in IT in any way have anything remotely close to decent security.

Basically, they need to reintroduce the US' Internet Czar, who should have meaningful authority and who should impose meaningful IT security standards. That small companies can't afford to hire security staff is irrelevant as they mostly either work in the cloud using SAAS, at which point their provider should be handling all the security. If you want to roll your own, then you should accept the burden of paying for adequate security. Minimum standards apply to just about everything else in life, and I'd rate getting IT security right just a little bit more important than getting cars to not roll over (you can usually survive a roll) or preventing toasters from spontaneously combusting (you can park electrical appliances away from flammable stuff).

You can avoid catastrophes with defective appliances but you can't avoid catastrophes with defective IT systems.

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