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  1. Re:Economic Question on Cox Expands Home Internet Data Caps, While CenturyLink Abandons Them (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The overage cost on my server is € 1.17 ( US € 1.33 ) per TB. My server provider also has hardware upgrade costs which I can only imagine are higher since they have to support larger traffic volumes since their minimum package comes with 2 TB monthly while charging less than Cox does.

    The only difference is that the server hosting space is more competitive, if my provider gets more expensive I will simply leave so they can't suck my wallet dry the way home ISPs can.

  2. Re:20 years worth? on Customer's 20-Year-Old Email Account Shut Down Over Unusual Address (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    Alpine is fantastic. Nothing lets me read through and deal with masses of emails as efficiently as Alpine, plus I get to see people's freaked out looks when they see me reading email via SSH.

  3. Re:How can a court argue... on Court Blocks EPA Effort To Suspend Obama-Era Methane Rule (pbs.org) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I don't see anywhere where the court ruled on whether the law was stupid or not, only that Pruitt lacked the legal authority to delay the rule from taking effect.

  4. We could have had that.but DANE is worthless without DNSSEC and everyone is too lazy to implement DNSSEC.

  5. DANE would have made that easy since it would have validated the certificate against the DNS record, but people are too lazy to implement DNSSEC which is needed before we even think about DANE.

  6. Re:And the most interesting feature... on New Maglev Elevator Can Travel Horizontally, Vertically, and Diagonally (wired.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Imagine, an up shaft and a down shaft connected ladder style so the loading / unloading area is in the connecting tunnels. The car pulls in, loads/unloads while the other cars go up or down around it.

    This would already cut the amount of floor space required by half in the tower I used to work in It had 21 floors and 6 elevators not counting the ones that went to the basement. A system like that could cut the floor space used to half, while still being faster.

    As an added bonus, you could put more loading/unloading sections on the ground flood floor

  7. Re:Quality of service on The High-Tech Jobs That Created India's Gilded Generation Are Disappearing (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I keep hearing this, but to be fair, most of the problem is with the way companies outsource. If someone in India is good at their job (and I have known some highly skilled Indians), they can move to wherever country they want meaning that if you want to hire someone skilled in India than you must pay them enough that they do not want to move.

    If you you are opening shop in India for good reasons such as keeping 24 hour coverage, you end up paying more on wages but you get better people.

    On the other hand, if you are opening shop in India to save money, you are getting all of the people who aren't skilled enough to move and aren't qualified to take the better jobs. That leaves the worst of the bunch to do your tasks and worse yet, if they are being used for call center type work, then you are getting them late at night their time when they won't be at their best.

  8. Try retail sales, it's far worse.

  9. Re:I think the problem is on E-cigarettes 'Potentially As Harmful As Tobacco Cigarettes' (uconn.edu) · · Score: 1

    One thing I've learned, is that most of the time, addiction is more emotional than physical and until you deal with whatever causes the need, the best you can do is reduce the harm. I once watched a woman try and fail to quit smoking using every trick she could find but one day after sorting herself out she was smoking and realized it was her last cigarette. On the flip side, I watched people try and deprive addicts of whatever they were getting high on only to have them turn to worse and worse substances. They blocked alcohol so they switched to rice wine (cheap but high salt content) so they banned that and the addicts moved on to sniffing spraypaint.

  10. Re:Drug delivery device on E-cigarettes 'Potentially As Harmful As Tobacco Cigarettes' (uconn.edu) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    As long as they aren't worse for you than cigarettes they have the following advantages:

    • * They leave a lot less litter than cigarettes.
    • * They stink up the surrounding area less than cigarettes
    • * The smell doesn't get into your clothing the same way cigarettes do.

    In short. Vaping is better for everyone else.

  11. Re:So what are good alternatives? on Skype Retires Older Apps for Windows, Linux (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    I am currently experimenting with Ring:

    • It handles every platform I use (Linux, windows, Android)
    • It handles my 1080P webcam that Hangouts chokes on
    • Allows multiple devices per account which make or break feature for me considering my office has bad cell reception.
    • Seems lighter weight resource wise than most of the alternatives
  12. We would be fine.. The external feed would go down and the batteries would kick in until the generators start up.

    We are fully redundant internally so the issue described in the actual article would not affect us either.

  13. The easy fix would be to put said button behind one of those "break glass in case of fire" type enclosures and have it cut both circuits. Luckily the requirements here don't seem to need them and the only big red buttons are for keeping the fire suppressant system from going off.

  14. The place I work at work would have been fine with that scenario. They have two separate power feeds per rack going to two separate UPS systems going to two separate generators.

    There is no one switch that would take out the entire facility

  15. Re:Who cares? on Devuan Jessie 1.0 Officially Released (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    If is only a solved problem if you do not do anything complicated on your servers. If you start needing things like services that depend on cluster file systems that reside on iSCSI, you end up needing to manually edit the init scripts and I can tell you based on first hand experience that it is much easier to do that on systemd based systems than on the old init system.

  16. Re:kudos to Devuan on Devuan Jessie 1.0 Officially Released (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    However the entire point of Linux was that it was never UNIX

    As the OP says, we're talking about a system that has always had a certain number of (painful) binary logs. I'm not necessarily blessing that behavior, and I think the default in systemd should be to write both (is disk space really at such a premium these days you can't write a nice indexed searchable binary log and the text equivalent?), but complaints that it's just not the Unix/GNU+Linux way are, frankly, historically completely inaccurate.

    That is already the default.everywhere I've used Systemd.

  17. Re: I thought this died in the wind on Devuan Jessie 1.0 Officially Released (softpedia.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    You would look in the syslog file you configured bind messages to go to. Or with that many domains, you would run a config test on all zone file before you reload the config. I don't have that many domains configured and I have scripts that alert me to config errors as well as scripts that alert me to domains that are no longer pointing at my server.

    Feel free to use my email address to contact me if you need to improve your hosting environment.

  18. Re:I cut the cord before it was even 'cool' on Cord-Cutters Are Ditching Their Cable Packages At the Fastest Rate Ever (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Last time I tried watching TV was on a plane and before long, the constant ads drove me crazy, it's worse than Youtube. I can't watch something that annoying for free let alone pay for it on cable so no antenna for me either.

  19. Re:I cut the cord before it was even 'cool' on Cord-Cutters Are Ditching Their Cable Packages At the Fastest Rate Ever (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    The issue is not paying for cable, it is that we end up paying for overpriced packages for channels not even worth watching. I can get netflix for far less than cable and it's ad free.

  20. Re:Can there be a better example? on Comcast Proves Need For Net Neutrality By Trying To Censor Advocacy Website (fightforthefuture.org) · · Score: 2

    Here is a better example, although it's not in the US. it is a good examples of what ISPs will do if permitted.

  21. Re:I have an even better idea on Facebook Now Battles Clickbait On a Post-by-Post Basis (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    I've seen it more than once. It's a clickbait headline that goes to a "like us on facebook to continue" where you can't see the content until you do what they want" I don't go for it, but some of my friends seem to fall for it regularly.

  22. I have an even better idea on Facebook Now Battles Clickbait On a Post-by-Post Basis (engadget.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Ban all sties that require you to share the page before it lets you read the actual content.

  23. Re:When I was a kid... on Man To Pay $300,000 In Damages For Hacking Employer (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    My high school's attendance system was worse.. It was designed for a single PC but someone (probably the vendor) had the idea to make it multi user by putting the data files on a network share. The result was that the last person to close the attendance software overwrote everything for the entire school with whatever was current when they opened the software.

    Some teachers were good and opened, did attendance then closed. Some opened it in the morning and closed during the evening. And some were Opening it at the beginning of the week and closing on Friday (or worse).

    The end result was that the worst teachers were the only ones with their student's absences recorded because they overwrote the attendance results of the best teachers and most of the school got perfect attendance scores that year. I recall having a good laugh considering how often had I had gotten sick and missed class, but the school administration never appeared to figure out that something was wrong and congratulated the school on the best attendance scores ever

  24. Re:what a moron... on EU Leader Says English Is Losing Importance (politico.eu) · · Score: 1

    A Spanish friend of mine wants me to move out to Spain and I'd mentioned one fear was an inability to find work and she was saying I had nothing to worry about because if all else failed, I could teach English lessons because there's a huge demand for native English speakers to teach advanced English. And Spain is classically one of the least willing to learn English because of the wide spread use of Spanish internationally.

    I've lived there but I was brought into the country for a specific task and when that job went away, there was no replacement. The economy of Spain is still in a bad state so many of the people with marketable skills and who know other languages are moving away from Spain. I've known some tech workers who tried to find work in Spain fail.

    The exception of course, is if you want to work some place like Malaga where more people speak English than Spanish but then you can count on waiting tables

    Also, most Spanish adults don't speak other languages because they were never taught, the kids on the other hand, often speak English perfectly.

  25. Re:what a moron... on EU Leader Says English Is Losing Importance (politico.eu) · · Score: 1

    That was my experience living in Spain, all of the English teachers I knew were paid very little and the job basically provided food and a place to stay so their savings would go father when traveling in Europe. I never understood how they could live on what they got, thankfully as a tech worker I didn't have to.

    It is different for Asia though, they actually pay their teachers properly.