But see, NOBODY, in the history of these abortions called "End User License Agreements" has actually *signed* one with their signature. These are ALL done by the expedient of "click here to agree"... Ummm... I seriously doubt ANYbody has actually *read* these 50 page monstrocities.. I know I sure didn't, back prior to 2010, when I still used/supported MS products.. This *could* be the case that starts killing click-bait EULAs.
AND don't forget the fucking business licenses.. I'm retired and have a 2012 Ford Escape, and looked into signing up for Lyft and Uber. After doing a bit of due-diligence, I found that living in Clark County Nevada, just outside Las Vegas, Nevada, I'd have to have a county business license, a Las Vegas city license, AND a state license, all for an annual total of close to $500... Then I talked a couple of people who actually drive for Lyft and Uber.. Both told me if they had it to do over, they'd have skipped doing either of these.. They said the only way they did fairly well was if they spent most of their time running during large events, which Vegas has quite a few. The surge pricing tended to make things a bit more fair... Needless to say I dumped the idea of driving for either....
Under 18 U.S.C. ss. 1001 [house.gov], lying to Congress is offense punishable by up to five years in prison (or eight if the lie is terrorism-related). The correct "response" to John Brennon's blatant, politically motivated, criminal lie is to indict him, convict him, and send him to Federal prison where totalitarian freedom-hating enemies of the American public like him belong.
Oh didnt you know?.. 18 U.S.C. ss. 1001 ONLY applies to the unwashed plebs, ie: Joe and Jane Six-pack.. People like Brennon don't have to worry about violating any of those pesky laws..
Guess you don't get sarcasm... To *my* sarcasm detector, that was some *serious* sarcasm... guy just forgot the/s for those of you who don't understand sarcasm... I wonder.. Is THAT you, Sheldon??
might be an outlier, but I find ads intrusive. I'm not pissed off enough to worry about blocking them, but I certainly remember which companies and products have shoved the most obnoxious ads in my face and avoid them when it makes sense. I just don't get _why_ advertising works; it's annoying! It doesn't make (smart) people more willing to buy your product!
No, I don't think you're an outlier.. I watch VERY little tv anymore as the commercial load is staggering.. It seems like 2 min of show and 5 min of endless repetitive commercials. The more I see and am annoyed by a given products commercial, the less I would EVER buy that product.. In fact, I've started a list of items that, due to their endless commercials on tv, elsewhere, I will NEVER do business with them, even if I might have provided they didn't annoy the living crap out of me...
No kidding.. Hunts ketchup is like plain tomato sauce, no flavor, whereas Heinz has a nice tangy flavor, and I discovered that the Walmart house brand tastes *just* like Heinz, in my opinion.. I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if Heinz doesn't *make* Walmart's house brand...
Politicians and military members are sworn to an oath to defend from enemies foreign and domestic.
Politicians are a "domestic enemy".. 99.999% of them completely ignore the oath they took to support/defend the Constitution.. (I bet they had their fingers crossed behind their backs when they took the oath)
I'm gonna assume (yeah I know...) that this bullshit "feature" only works if you're stupid enough to use their iPhone/Android app.. What VERY little use I make of FB on my Android phone (hint: slightly more than zero) is done via a webbrowser. I'm sick and tired of EVERYbody wanting you to install their app... My phone has 16GB of space and the ONLY apps that are allowed on it are ones *I* want... FUCK THE REST...
Since I'm retired, I volunteer with the Redcross, and have several contacts from the local chapter as "friends" in LinkedIn.. Since I do no IT work with the Redcross or these contacts, they would have absolutely no knowledge or reason to "endorse" me for any IT skills, yet, I got several "endorsements" by these folks for IT stuff.. Pretty much tells me this "endorsement" crap is totally bogus. Also when I retired, I decided I was done with MS products, after using/supporting them for close to 20 years, putting all my home systems on some opensource OS or another.. Looks like LinkedIn is done for me as well..
You know why that is, don't you? Their version of FreeBSD has some subtle tweaks that makes it optimized for Azure, and also some tweaks that "de-optimize" it for Xen/KVM and other virtualization schemes.. If I was a FreeBSD muckymuck, I'd make DAMN sure any patches MS submits are VERY closely audited.. Say it with me... Embrace/Extend/Extinguish....
I used/supported MS products for nearly 20 years, but when I retired I decided I was done with MS' and other proprietary software. After seeing the bullshit MS is pulling with Windows 10, I would trust MS about as far as I could throw them. At least with their FreeBSD, I assume you can audit the source code, to be sure they haven't sprinkled little "telemetry" surprises in it.. *IF* I was going to run FreeBSD on a cloud-based virtual host, I'd stay the hell away from Azure, and it would be an actual FreeBSD release...
I can see why a HE 6to4 tunnel could fuck up Netflix... When you set up a tunnel at tunnelbroker.net, you're given a choice of a large number of endpoints for your tunnel, some in the USA but *many* elsewhere throughout HE's network footprint. I'm gonna go out on a limb and speculate that the problems noted only occur if your tunnel endpoint is *somewhere* besides the US. I use an HE tunnelbroker tunnel whose endpoint is in LA, so *if* I was still subscribing to Netflix, I'd not be expecting any issues. Dumped Netfix several years ago since there was nothing on it that the wife or I needed to watch, that we couldn't get elsewhere withOUT the ever increasing cost of Netflix
I have a vps hosted in Holland, $3.99US/Year and it comes with one ipv6 address and zero ipv4 ones.. If you want/need a v4 address, the vps now costs $27US/Year..
You can include Cox Communications on the majority of their areas. I'd been using a Hurricane Electric Tunnelbroker 6to4 tunnel for ipv6 support, but went with the native dual-stack that Cox provides..
Many VPS/dedicated hosts require the user to purchase IPv6 addresses and default to IPv4 only.
And then on the other hand, there is at least *one* VPS vendor who defaults to ipv6 and charges a LOT more for an ipv4 address. I have a 256mb Linux vps hosted in Holland that provides one ipv6 address at $3.99US/YEAR... If you need/want an ipv4 address, the vps price goes up to $27US/Year.. This is kind of how I'd expect things to work based on the fact that v4 addresses are getting scarce... I use the vps simply as a "playground" and if you're curious, the vps vendor is vds6.net, and they offer hosts in Romania and Holland.
I'm not a big gamer, mostly just the TeamFortress2/Classic on Steam/Linux, but there are a couple of games I'd *really* like to play that are strictly Windows, but the idea of dualbooting to Windows 7 to play it, makes it one of those things you'd *like* to try, but the bullshit you'd have to put up with to do it, makes it a non-starter.. Those of you who are like me and have given up Windows for Linux know *precisely* what I mean.....
I use Ubuntu 14.04 LTS on all of my systems and they're a 5 years of support.. Not completely sure though, if I'm gonna move to Ubuntu 16.04, since its now infested with systemd, but I've got till 2019 to make up my mind..
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But see, NOBODY, in the history of these abortions called "End User License Agreements" has actually *signed* one with their signature. These are ALL done by the expedient of "click here to agree"... Ummm... I seriously doubt ANYbody has actually *read* these 50 page monstrocities.. I know I sure didn't, back prior to 2010, when I still used/supported MS products.. This *could* be the case that starts killing click-bait EULAs.
AND don't forget the fucking business licenses.. I'm retired and have a 2012 Ford Escape, and looked into signing up for Lyft and Uber. After doing a bit of due-diligence, I found that living in Clark County Nevada, just outside Las Vegas, Nevada, I'd have to have a county business license, a Las Vegas city license, AND a state license, all for an annual total of close to $500... Then I talked a couple of people who actually drive for Lyft and Uber.. Both told me if they had it to do over, they'd have skipped doing either of these.. They said the only way they did fairly well was if they spent most of their time running during large events, which Vegas has quite a few. The surge pricing tended to make things a bit more fair... Needless to say I dumped the idea of driving for either....
What is surprising is hearing about it from a british newspaper without a bleep in U.S. news.
Not surprising at all.. The American news media has become the defacto US Department of Propaganda... What do you expect??
Oooops... Forgot the /s for the sarcasm-challenged among us....
Under 18 U.S.C. ss. 1001 [house.gov], lying to Congress is offense punishable by up to five years in prison (or eight if the lie is terrorism-related). The correct "response" to John Brennon's blatant, politically motivated, criminal lie is to indict him, convict him, and send him to Federal prison where totalitarian freedom-hating enemies of the American public like him belong.
Oh didnt you know?.. 18 U.S.C. ss. 1001 ONLY applies to the unwashed plebs, ie: Joe and Jane Six-pack.. People like Brennon don't have to worry about violating any of those pesky laws..
Gotta keep those corporate liars err lawyers loaded up with billable hours.. They don't work for free you know..
Guess you don't get sarcasm... To *my* sarcasm detector, that was some *serious* sarcasm... guy just forgot the /s for those of you who don't understand sarcasm... I wonder.. Is THAT you, Sheldon??
might be an outlier, but I find ads intrusive. I'm not pissed off enough to worry about blocking them, but I certainly remember which companies and products have shoved the most obnoxious ads in my face and avoid them when it makes sense. I just don't get _why_ advertising works; it's annoying! It doesn't make (smart) people more willing to buy your product!
No, I don't think you're an outlier.. I watch VERY little tv anymore as the commercial load is staggering.. It seems like 2 min of show and 5 min of endless repetitive commercials. The more I see and am annoyed by a given products commercial, the less I would EVER buy that product.. In fact, I've started a list of items that, due to their endless commercials on tv, elsewhere, I will NEVER do business with them, even if I might have provided they didn't annoy the living crap out of me...
No kidding.. Hunts ketchup is like plain tomato sauce, no flavor, whereas Heinz has a nice tangy flavor, and I discovered that the Walmart house brand tastes *just* like Heinz, in my opinion.. I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if Heinz doesn't *make* Walmart's house brand...
Politicians and military members are sworn to an oath to defend from enemies foreign and domestic.
Politicians are a "domestic enemy".. 99.999% of them completely ignore the oath they took to support/defend the Constitution.. (I bet they had their fingers crossed behind their backs when they took the oath)
I guess theres enough idiots who install their app to make this worthwhile.... (shakes head)
I'm gonna assume (yeah I know...) that this bullshit "feature" only works if you're stupid enough to use their iPhone/Android app.. What VERY little use I make of FB on my Android phone (hint: slightly more than zero) is done via a webbrowser. I'm sick and tired of EVERYbody wanting you to install their app... My phone has 16GB of space and the ONLY apps that are allowed on it are ones *I* want... FUCK THE REST...
You forgot the /s ... At least I *hope* your post was sarcasm, otherwise you're off the deep end
-- Microsoft is going for "Free as in herpes"
I love your sig... I've taken to calling Windows 10 a CTD, a "Computer-Transmitted Disease" or "Windows NSA Edition", if you prefer...
Since I'm retired, I volunteer with the Redcross, and have several contacts from the local chapter as "friends" in LinkedIn.. Since I do no IT work with the Redcross or these contacts, they would have absolutely no knowledge or reason to "endorse" me for any IT skills, yet, I got several "endorsements" by these folks for IT stuff.. Pretty much tells me this "endorsement" crap is totally bogus. Also when I retired, I decided I was done with MS products, after using/supporting them for close to 20 years, putting all my home systems on some opensource OS or another.. Looks like LinkedIn is done for me as well..
You know why that is, don't you? Their version of FreeBSD has some subtle tweaks that makes it optimized for Azure, and also some tweaks that "de-optimize" it for Xen/KVM and other virtualization schemes.. If I was a FreeBSD muckymuck, I'd make DAMN sure any patches MS submits are VERY closely audited.. Say it with me... Embrace/Extend/Extinguish....
I'd be polishing the ole re-zu-me, If I were you... That company is going down the toilet...
We may be old (66 here), but we're just realistic.. MS can kiss my ass.. (somebody had to say it, many of us are thinking it..)
I used/supported MS products for nearly 20 years, but when I retired I decided I was done with MS' and other proprietary software. After seeing the bullshit MS is pulling with Windows 10, I would trust MS about as far as I could throw them. At least with their FreeBSD, I assume you can audit the source code, to be sure they haven't sprinkled little "telemetry" surprises in it.. *IF* I was going to run FreeBSD on a cloud-based virtual host, I'd stay the hell away from Azure, and it would be an actual FreeBSD release...
I can see why a HE 6to4 tunnel could fuck up Netflix... When you set up a tunnel at tunnelbroker.net, you're given a choice of a large number of endpoints for your tunnel, some in the USA but *many* elsewhere throughout HE's network footprint. I'm gonna go out on a limb and speculate that the problems noted only occur if your tunnel endpoint is *somewhere* besides the US. I use an HE tunnelbroker tunnel whose endpoint is in LA, so *if* I was still subscribing to Netflix, I'd not be expecting any issues. Dumped Netfix several years ago since there was nothing on it that the wife or I needed to watch, that we couldn't get elsewhere withOUT the ever increasing cost of Netflix
I have a vps hosted in Holland, $3.99US/Year and it comes with one ipv6 address and zero ipv4 ones.. If you want/need a v4 address, the vps now costs $27US/Year..
You can include Cox Communications on the majority of their areas. I'd been using a Hurricane Electric Tunnelbroker 6to4 tunnel for ipv6 support, but went with the native dual-stack that Cox provides..
Many VPS/dedicated hosts require the user to purchase IPv6 addresses and default to IPv4 only.
And then on the other hand, there is at least *one* VPS vendor who defaults to ipv6 and charges a LOT more for an ipv4 address.
I have a 256mb Linux vps hosted in Holland that provides one ipv6 address at $3.99US/YEAR... If you need/want an ipv4 address, the
vps price goes up to $27US/Year.. This is kind of how I'd expect things to work based on the fact that v4 addresses are getting scarce...
I use the vps simply as a "playground" and if you're curious, the vps vendor is vds6.net, and they offer hosts in Romania and Holland.
I'm not a big gamer, mostly just the TeamFortress2/Classic on Steam/Linux, but there are a couple of games I'd *really* like to play that are strictly Windows, but the idea of dualbooting to Windows 7 to play it, makes it one of those things you'd *like* to try, but the bullshit you'd have to put up with to do it, makes it a non-starter.. Those of you who are like me and have given up Windows for Linux know *precisely* what I mean.....
I use Ubuntu 14.04 LTS on all of my systems and they're a 5 years of support.. Not completely sure though, if I'm gonna move to Ubuntu 16.04, since its now infested with systemd, but I've got till 2019 to make up my mind..