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  1. For most businesses, the operational cost of SQL Server is dwarfed by Oracle's. Oracle only begins to make sense once you've already started hiring an army of people to manage your data. Most companies just never get there. And those that do can often do what Amazon did, and hire a team of open source DBAs.

  2. You mean like ISPs?

  3. When the VOC was operating, America's economy was run on slavery.

  4. They deserve it on 'Amazon's HQ2 Was a Con, Not a Contest' (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Communities who elect leadership that sells them out for corporate tax breaks deserve what they get. People are ignorant. Everyone with half a brain knows using tax breaks to attract business is a sucker's game.

  5. Re: Hate monopolies on Amazon Is Kicking All Unauthorized Apple Refurbishers Off the Site (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Hardly. I can go on overstock or ebay or any number of other places - even direct from Apple if I'm not mistaken - if I want a Macbook. That's not even close to a monopoly. And that guy can setup his own website if he wants and do it direct.

    If there's a monopoly in this story, it's Apple's monopoly on systems running OS X.

  6. Re: Aborigonals Didnt Live There on Wildfire Devastates California Town of Paradise (apnews.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    You sure about that? My general understanding is the natives used control burning to manage wildfires, something NIMBY white people can't figure out.

  7. That... is the complete opposite. Rights are being limited already. I'm using crime as a reason to support re-establishing rights, not to remove them.

  8. Then those Hungarians can move somewhere else in the Eurozone. Still don't see an issue. Different governments do things different. The great thing about a federation like the U.S. or the E.U. is that you can just pick up and move if you don't like the local laws.

    A government having oversight over its economy is the norm. Making a fuss about Hungarian control over mobile payments when cash is still a thing is pretty silly.

  9. Driving is on my employer on Has the Love Affair With Driving Gotten Stuck in Traffic? (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    I live in a major city. I work in the suburbs. I take the 2 hour driving time directly out of my workday, so I only work 6 hours a day. My employer decided they want to run their op where office space is cheaper rather than where the talent lives. That's on them.

  10. Doxing involves releasing private info, not aggregating public info.

  11. Re: Sounds a lot like Slashdot on A Third of Wikipedia Discussions Are Stuck in Forever Beefs (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Fuck that, Bitcoin is going to dominate the future economy, making all that shit moot.

  12. Re: OR and WA to follow suit on California Voters Embrace Year-Round Daylight-Saving Time (sfchronicle.com) · · Score: 1

    I think it largely depends on where you are in your time zone and your latitude. Some zones are unnaturally wide, and being on the east vs. west side of the zone can make an almost two hour difference. Also, higher latitudes have more severe changes in seasonal daylight. In MI - a northern and western state - I think most people prefer the extra daylight in the morning so that you don't spend five hours in darkness after waking up in the Winter.

  13. Re: Paid Product Endorsement? on Police Decrypt 258,000 Messages After Breaking Pricey IronChat Crypto App (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I think what probably happened is Snowden was talking about the OTR protocol, and not a particular product and the marketurds twisted his words with their ignorant/malicious misquotation.

  14. That seems draconian. What if mobile payments are used for crime or money laundering? Seems like Hungary should have a right to overree its own economy, regardless of the EU or Eurozone.

  15. Re: Perfect timing with the demise of Sears on In a First, Amazon Begins Mailing 70-page Printed Holiday Toy Catalog To US Homes (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2

    It's not Amazon's fault the industry is so inefficient. Wages are padded through bonding and other insurances, which give the consumer piece of mind, but drives up the cost of labor by limiting the labor pool. Amazon is essentially replacing the bonding and insurance, thus driving down costs to where they should be.

    Fixing shit around the house is something every man in the 50s was just expected to do. It doesn't deserve anything more than $10/hr.

  16. You say "traveled", but really it's a euphamism for "got relocated". NV is the source of much of the homeless problem, but unlike CA, NV is cool with breaking the law, so yet again CA has to pick up the tab for all the poor, degenerate red states filled with rural junkie welfare queens.

  17. Google-fu needed.

  18. Re: Rob Peter to pay Paul. great... on San Francisco Passes a First-of-its-Kind Tax on Big Businesses To Help the Homeless (recode.net) · · Score: -1, Troll

    I'd much prefer it if we stopped giving tax money to degenerate white people, but since we're not going to let that happen, I'd prefer a system that isn't morally bankrupt and pathetically and transparently racist.

  19. Yes, in fact, I have. And your understanding of this is myopic at best. Sure, it's warmer in FL and there are better services in CA, but you can squat in your own house in MI. And the reality is homeless people aren't any different than the rest of the nation: they refuse to move to a new area for better opportunity. This is why Trump promises to bring back coal: his conetituents are too chicken shit to pick up and move to where there are jobs.

  20. Re: with an EULA that gives MS full rights to your on Microsoft Working on Porting Sysinternals To Linux (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Even in the US, EULAs are pretty limited. Much of their content is regularly thrown out. The main thing is that by violating one, you can lose your copyright license to use the software. If you already have critical systems using the software, this can compel you to jump through EULA hoops in order to preserve your license against threat. The issue then becomes copyright law where you have no rights to the software someone makes unless granted.

  21. Funny how homeless people don't take you up on that. It's almost like being homeless is shitty no matter where you go...

  22. Re: Rob Peter to pay Paul. great... on San Francisco Passes a First-of-its-Kind Tax on Big Businesses To Help the Homeless (recode.net) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    And more importantly, unlike all the rural white welfare queen junkies, these are largely black and brown drug users, so we should not help them.

  23. Lol! Yeah, right... the right wing fantasy of rich people leaving to teach those pesky tax-and-spend Democrats a lesson.

    I know reality is tough to grasp for some, so I won't blame you or disparage you over these dreams. Left wingers have crazy fantasies too, like impeaching Trump for being an asshole.

  24. Future energy consumption should drop for BTC, so that energy cost will probably put it below precious metals. Then people can stop bitching about BTC energy use.

  25. Re: Well, what do you need? on It's Not Your Imagination: Smartphone Battery Life Is Getting Worse (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    There's a middle ground between 4GHz hexadeca-core CPUs and $100 devices that is completely underserved. That said, I think it's even worse at the high end, where everything is derivative and you have no options to get a device that works for you unless you happen to want exactly what the manucturer tells you to want.