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Re:Let employees work from home on Friday May 19, 2017 @10:38AM (#14376045)
They did buy a share in Alibaba! Yahoo's share in Alibaba is worth more than the total value of Yahoo. So, if you buy Yahoo, fire all its staff, close all its web sites, and then liquidate its share in Alibaba, you can make a lot of money.
Re:Let employees work from home on Friday May 19, 2017 @10:31AM (#14375985)
> Usually when you're on your way to being successful, you hire MBAs to do your people management ...

Wow. That means that the existing technical staff will be gone in no time. New hirees will have a hard time figuring out how to even just press the "build" button, let alone, add new features. Furthermore, anybody with more than one job offer will never pick the one from an MBA. Therefore, in my impression, the success won't last, because its very reason will have been destroyed.

Re:Let employees work from home on Friday May 19, 2017 @10:12AM (#14375804)
Chatting favours subjects that only require a short span of attention. At the same time, anything of real value will take a minimum length and complexity to explain. That is why the output of chat/messaging tends to be worth little to nothing. Chat/messaging is something appreciated by demographics who do not have anything useful to say anyway. To an important extent, it is the same kind of people who have a hard time finding a job, and when they finally get one, they don't manage to keep it for long.
Re:Let employees work from home on Friday May 19, 2017 @09:55AM (#14375631)
> However, how do you deliver more value than someone from a developing country if your pipes are so narrow?

I have moved to a developing country, and now I work from here.

Below the line, there are many candidates to one job. Above the line, there are many jobs to one candidate. Above the line, you can work from where you like. Below the line, you are lucky to have a job at all. They can even tell you to dress like a clown for work, if that is their fancy, and what can you do about it? Nothing.

> I think there's still a lot of room for the value provided by teams working closely together.

Not really. Anybody with talents above the line, will not join such team. So, you will be surrounded by people with talent that is too limited to get what they want. You will most likely not learn anything useful either. What you describe is the prototypical dead-end job.

US intelligence chiefs don't trust Kaspersky. But why?

... because they are not dumb. [Kapersky's EULA](https://support.kaspersky.com/12915) forbids verifying his claims of trustworthiness: "You shall not [...] decompile, or reverse-engineer the Software. You shall not otherwise reduce any part of the Software to human-readable form.". Therefore, you cannot check or otherwise verify his trustworthiness. Hence, Kapersky cannot be trusted by design....

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Re:Intel AMT Checker for Linux on Monday May 15, 2017 @01:07PM (#14343194)
"Error: Management Engine refused connection. This probably means you don't have AMT"

$ ls /dev/mei0 -lh

crw------- 1 root root 246, 0 May 15 21:02 /dev/mei0

Is there a way to completely remove AMT ?