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off of the top of my head:

SDR, Storage, bigger/better Speakers, more USB/whatever ports, HDMI output, video Projector, JTAG (why not?), RFID

edit: oh, temperature/barometer built into the device would be pretty cool too.

This platform actively discourages downvoting, so a couple people out of hundreds or thousands of viewers deciding to upvote you doesn't mean that the addition was appreciated.

I thought you meant exactly what you said, and I meant exactly what I said, passion and all. Regardless of the community sanctions, I still mean it.

I realize that it is unpopular, but civility would not have made my point. I appreciate your input.

Copyright is automatic in principle, but not in practice. You have to pay lawyers a shitload of money in order to enforce either. The same risk, of having to pay lawyers a shitload of money, stands in both cases.

Corporate lobbying isn't the only kind of lobbying.

It was new to me and was worth a wry grin.

Sometimes, but significantly often, when I click on an email in the Outlook 365 web app, nothing happens. The display pane goes blank-white.

There is a noticable delay when I click to focus on the search bar, and often I have to retype because I click and go to start typing in my search term and lose the first few characters.

Almost always, when I search for an email in the Android app, it just hangs and even if I leave it to sit for minutes...

It's not about trust in motivation at this point. It's about trust in competency.

Well, it seems like the OP was supposed to get stock options at these places where they worked, but somehow their stakes vaporized in some kind of finance shell game. But of course, it's all caveat employtor, right? Silicon valley companies were illegally depressing wages for years, and it's all about the individual workers not "negotiating good enuf". Fuck off. Capitalism is broken because the owners are scamming the workers en masse.

So, instead, I have to pay "taxes" to plutocrats as insurance premiums. Yeah, that makes sense.

I'm not arguing that Capitalism is okay, either. The dignity of work is how the "Owners" morally justify their use of wage-slavery to capitalize.

The dignity of work is a Protestant myth.

idk maybe anyone who uses internet karma points to determine whether someone is worth talking to is both the jerk and the asshat

Maybe it was that at one time, but these days it is passed off as a factual event along with the false story about Archimedes' Eureka, the false story about Albert Einstein failing math, Thomas Edison inventing the light bulb, Henry Ford inventing the assembly line, etc.

The popular lies in the history of science and tech are endemic.

Why are Americans okay with education being an exercise in repeating falsehoods?

Collective bargaining for better wages and working conditions is part of what got us a step up from the world described in Upton Sinclair's The Jungle. It took 30 years, but did you expect it to get fixed quickly and easily? Politics is a lifetime grudge match. The Capitalists you sell your labor to, ideally, want you to work for free with perfect efficiency 24/7/365. That's why they are replacing workers with robots.

Anyway, a professional organization will give you more far flung networking opportunities as well as intelligence on what's going on at other firms, which will increase your value as a worker, and presumably, your pay.

You don't need a blue collar union patterned after UAW, but there have been multiple successful lawsuits about illegal wage suppression across many areas of high tech. They are probably the tip of an iceberg. These lawsuits suggest a much deeper pattern of high level collusion between these incestuous companies to systematically depress wages.

There are professional organizations for every major profession. Technically, the ACM would probably be the closest thing to a union that programmers actually need, but it's limited to the big iron scientific computing... So, yeah. I don't know if there is something for all of the webdev 2.0 gluelib writers out there.

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

P.S. You're might be a good programmer. I don't know. We've never met, but stop trying to play rhetoric games. You're not very good at them.

Ah, the old corporate myth of meritocracy.

If they are a publicly traded company it could be argued that lobbying Congress for beneficial legislation would be a part of their due diligence toward increasing stockholder value.

Honestly, if I was running a company that relied on IP, I'd be worried that Congress will probably fuck it up even worse.

No. It's not the same motivation. Human hierarchical social behavior is not the same as other primates. It's much more complicated and in most human situations social status is based on a constellation of intangibles rather than who can literally rip the other's face off.

I hate this more than these words can convey.

Making the argument that those two behaviors, management insisting on punctuality and violent bodily mutilation, are commensurable is the exact kind of insane thinking that I am criticizing.

Calling an Industrial Age invention a primate dominance ritual is insane.

Who says that?

We need software patent reform and sufficient funding and training within the patent office so that patent reviewers can do their job well, not obliteration of the concept. Actually, we need an overhaul and streamlining of the entire framework of legal intellectual property in the US, and in the EU, the situation is even more complex.

Raise your hand if you saw that coming when Android and Apple beat Microsoft to the punch in the global mobile market, and then kicked them a few times while they were down, and then laughed about it.

The reclassification of broadband services is primarily a legal issue. The activists promoted this Title II "common carrier" classification and many people just parroted that without asking what that really meant. Nothing is simple when it comes down to USA spanning policy. The scope creep has introduced a number of bugs in the system over the years.

It's not about time or anything so logical. It's about wowing tech-illiterate executives with flashy new toys.

Friendships build on bitten tongues aren't much use anyway.

I'm glad that all of those intelligent idiots are stuck writing HFT algorithms for a middling salary on Wall Street so that the rest of us who are playing a better game can get on with life.

Money isn't everything.

As a note, it was cheaper for me to leave Texas and move across the country to Oregon and pay non-resident tuition than it was to stay in Texas and pay resident tuition. Not every state has the same opportunities.

I'm not bemoaning my loans by any means. I consider them to be our generation's Indentured servitude contracts. I'm planning on paying them through the Income Contingent plan and working for a gov't or non-profit.