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  1. This gives me lots of faith that we will have 0 problems in 2038 with the epoch rollover.

  2. Re:Here's how much you should care on F5 Acquired NGINX For $670M (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    ...The reality of course is, nobody knows who F5 is, and nobody cares about Nginx non-free offerings. So in short, nobody cares.

    F5 is most known for its hardware load balancer solutions. People care about those and have heard of F5 in that context most likely.

  3. So does this mean we can now start manufacturing diamonds out of thin air?

  4. It didn't tie into orion on Pingdom Will Kill Its Free Website Monitoring Plan on February 6 (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Each time SolarWinds acquires a company, there is some time they're allowed to exist before ultimately they have to integrate with Orion so they can connect their cashbox to it more closely. Virtualization Manager for instance was a really nice product when it was introduced.

  5. 1. Your phone costs as much as your first used car
    2. When a piece breaks, you try your hardest to replace it
    3. They are designed to fail in progressively shorter timeframes

    Not like a car:
    1. Car manufacturers send recall notices and pay the shop bill to correct critical product defects for the life of the vehicle.

  6. Re:There is no difference, that's the point on Richard Stallman Announces GNU Kind Communication Guidelines (gnu.org) · · Score: 1

    New code review:

    This code is full of poopy. It needs more purple.

  7. Bonus for armed forces on PlayStation Now Is Making Its Games Downloadable (kotaku.com) · · Score: 1

    This is a big help to those who go on extended periods where internet access is limited/unavailable such as active duty military personnel.

  8. Restore faith in big pharma on OxyContin Billionaire Patents Drug To Treat Opioid Addiction (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    If you want to restore my faith in "big pharma": Use 90% of all profits from the treatment (and I really mean gross - manufacturing cost as my definition of profit) as a charitable donation to opioid education and treatment. Additionally, stop all research into improving the existing potency of opioids. Finally, let doctors handle medicine, not lobbyists/police/sales agents.

  9. Adding an emulation layer has been in the GoG way of doing things a long time to deal with the ancient OS. I hope this works better for them then Crossover Linux.

  10. Until admins have some kind of recourse to take against $Microsoft when ^Boss can't get to his funny cat pictures and passes :( admin over for his next raise because of a forced update that broke stuff, there will always be hate/strife.

  11. Are the other manufacturers onboard yet? on Intel Has a New Spectre and Meltdown Firmware Patch For You To Try Out (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    So have we finally put to bed the finger pointing going on between Intel, Dell, and Redhat yet?

  12. Re:Depends on your organization on Less Than 1 in 10 Gmail Users Enable Two-Factor Authentication (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I was pointing out that the statistics are skewed if you don't exclude SSO gmail users, since that's out of the user's control.

  13. Depends on your organization on Less Than 1 in 10 Gmail Users Enable Two-Factor Authentication (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    If you're using Google Apps on a domain with a delegated SSO, MFA may not be an option for you.

  14. I wonder how much those news agencies pay for their newswire and AP content.

  15. It's worked for Breathalyzers for years on This Impenetrable Program Is Transforming How Courts Treat DNA Evidence (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Breathalyzers are effectively closed source under trade secret protections and we've convicted lots of people with those.

  16. Isn't this how the US copyright office handles it? on Facebook To Fight Revenge Porn by Letting Potential Victims Upload Nudes in Advance (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    As dumb as it sounds, this is how the copyright office handles it already. http://money.cnn.com/2015/04/2...

  17. OTA TV is based on RF signals. Traditional cable is based on QAM signal transmission. Newer cable and streaming services use a regular IP network connection. If you're in an area that has poor RF reception, these should provide a significant quality increase since they're using an IP network connection. It would be great if it were free like RF, but someone has to pay the bandwidth and infrastructure bills.

  18. Disney is just doing what other distributors are doing. Sony is probably going to do the same thing to Crunchyroll before long. I at least hope that as content drops, so will pricing. When people have asked cable companies for a-la-carte channel selection, it was only supposed to be a few dollars a month. Maybe we will finally get our wish but we will have to skip the cable companies and go straight to the distributor streaming services. With that said, I'm not looking forward to having to actively manage 5+ streaming services accounts, wonder who has what, and keep up with additions and removals from their catalogs. Disney specifically has a bad reputation of cycling their content through the "Disney Vault" where it's just not available for years at a time.

  19. Thank you IoT on Linux Is Not As Safe As You Think (betanews.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Thank you IoT vendors who don't maintain their devices for creating a breeding ground of consumer-grade security holes. Let us all pray that these widgets aren't internet facing in some way and that the consumer grade routers are sufficient at keeping external attack vectors to a minimum. There isn't much we can do for consumers who like to click on internet candy to infect themselves.

  20. Priced out of the market on Play Store Downloads Show Google Pixel Sales Limited To 1 Million Units (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Even Apple fanatics would be a bit slow to adopt if you MSRP a device > $900. I own one only because I was able to combine several discounts and reward systems together to bring the price down drastically. I know a few other colleagues have them as well, and yes it's good. However it's only marginally better than the competitors. The main selling point to me is the security updates aren't being held hostage to force buying another device.

  21. Presidential Candidate Educators on Nuclear Experts Form International 'Nuclear Crisis Group' (teenvogue.com) · · Score: 1

    Is this the group that will teach future presidential candidates what the nuclear triad is? Leaving that to John Oliver seems like a bad idea.

  22. You might be a developer if... on WikiLeaks Reveals Grasshopper, the CIA's Windows Hacking Tool (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Your first though is that you're jealous of how good their documentation is.

  23. Great, but I'll take a validated classic one on Scientists Develop a Breathalyzer That Detects 17 Diseases With One Breath From a Patient (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    That's nice, but I'll settle for a breathalyzer that can be scrutinized by anyone but the manufacturer in court. I'm not sure I trust a DUI conviction to a black box nobody can look inside including the courts.

  24. Re:Prime Eligible? on Amazon Now Sells Cars (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Or an Amazon Credit Card

  25. Prime Eligible? on Amazon Now Sells Cars (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Is it prime eligible?