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  1. Re:Generalization Bulls$*^ on What Bell Labs Was Like C.1967 (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    Your analysis is mostly correct, but you're off by a decade or more. It all goes back to the 1940s and Rosie the Riveter.

  2. Re:Seriously?? on First Steps Towards Network Transparency For Wayland (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    And yet you can't be bothered to name at least one of them.

  3. The signal-to-noise ratio has definitely improved; spamming and clickbait seem to be down quite a lot. Article selection has got heaps better IMNSHO.

  4. Re:But on How the Cloud Has Changed (Since Last You Looked) · · Score: 2

    For my next trick, I'll produce something I like to call "other people's servers"...

  5. Re:But on How the Cloud Has Changed (Since Last You Looked) · · Score: 1

    But "price point" makes it sound all specialist-y and stuffs.

  6. Re:Hipster software is the real problem. on How the Cloud Has Changed (Since Last You Looked) · · Score: 2

    XSLT kicks ass, and it makes my life easier in more ways than I can count. Don't blame the morons using it for stupid pet tricks for which it was never intended.

  7. Re:Hipster software is the real problem. on How the Cloud Has Changed (Since Last You Looked) · · Score: 1

    In my way, we sent over the clay tablets bearing our changes on the backs of oxen. Noob.

  8. I'm using just half of my 256GB SSD. (Eventually I'll format the other half and use it for something, but no hurry.)

    Of course, I don't play many games, my home directory is on a HDD, and most of my media is stored on a network drive. But FWIW etc. yadda yadda.

  9. I've no idea, but I was rattled enough by the notion that I earlier used "earlier" twice in the same sentence earlier.

    TFTFM.

  10. Re:Mostly for criminals on Talos Secure Workstation Is Free-Software Centric — and $3100 [Updated] · · Score: 1

    Okay, seems the $3100 is just for the mainboard + CPU. SO maybe not quite as good a deal as I originally thought.

  11. You have to know enough about Windows to realise that it should be avoided. In my case, this happened in early 2005.

  12. I've no idea, but I was rattled enough by the notion that I used "earlier" twice in the same sentence.

  13. Re:LOL ... outlawed? on Talos Secure Workstation Is Free-Software Centric — and $3100 [Updated] · · Score: 1
  14. We had someone earlier who asked what a DLL was just a bit earlier today.

    Even more incredibly, he got modded +5, Informative.

    O tempores, O mores... *weeps*

  15. Re:Mostly for criminals on Talos Secure Workstation Is Free-Software Centric — and $3100 [Updated] · · Score: 1

    It's about 1½ times what I paid a couple of years ago to have someone build me an x86_64-based workstation with 8x2 cores (Haswell IIRC), 16GB RAM, a heap-big SSD, and a few other choice goodies.

    So... What kind of porn did you say do you like to watch? And what's it worth to you not to have the answer revealed, whether or not you feel like responding to the question?

  16. How do you verify that every bit of your food isn't poisoned/contaminated/adulterated in some way?

    Of course, if you gave up eating altogether, that uncertainty would go away.

  17. Do you even have a geek card to turn in? You've never heard of "DLL Hell"? WIll wonders never cease...

  18. Re:Bullshit on Malware Targets Skype Users, Records Conversations (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Has always worked pretty well for me on a number of Android devices (as well as Linux desktops, and Windows, too, back in the day). Could be the quality of your hardware and/or connection.

  19. Re:Pooh-Pooh all you want. This is great news! on Windows 10 Gets Core Console Host Enhancements (nivot.org) · · Score: 1

    You mean the Microsoft that thinks it owns the users computer and can force spying and updates on people unwittingly and or against their will? Yea real swell...

    That would be the Microsoft that lets you pay for the system, then purports to rent it back to you, hoping you'll not notice, yes.

  20. Re:So Let Me Get This Straight on Windows 10 Gets Core Console Host Enhancements (nivot.org) · · Score: 1

    I'm sure that MightyMartian feels only heartfelt pity and compassion for the kids on the short bus.

  21. Re:So Let Me Get This Straight on Windows 10 Gets Core Console Host Enhancements (nivot.org) · · Score: 1

    We got along just fine for years at Sun without Exchange or AD. Outlook was strictly verboten, and our mail servers actually handled lists correctly.

    Good times.

  22. Re:So Let Me Get This Straight on Windows 10 Gets Core Console Host Enhancements (nivot.org) · · Score: 1

    And you can always install the Samba implementation manually on any Linux or BSD box.

    Don't some Linux distros install Samba support automatically? I seem to recall that mine (openSUSE) does, at least.

  23. Re:Prove your claim you worked for Microsoft on Even With Telemetry Disabled, Windows 10 Talks To Dozens of Microsoft Servers (voat.co) · · Score: 1

    Good to see the APK Sockpuppet Machine is still limping along and gasping for breath.

  24. Re:That isn't trustful. on Even With Telemetry Disabled, Windows 10 Talks To Dozens of Microsoft Servers (voat.co) · · Score: 1

    So your advice is that you should place more trust in code that you can't audit a single line of, just because it'd be hard to audit all FOSS code.

    That's a pretty amusing substitute for logic, but you're welcome to apply it for yourself if you like.

    Be sure to get back to us and let us know how that's worked out for you.

  25. Re:Prove your claim you worked for Microsoft on Even With Telemetry Disabled, Windows 10 Talks To Dozens of Microsoft Servers (voat.co) · · Score: 0

    Hi, Alex.

    Must be really frustrating not to be able to post 200+ times a day.

    How's the weather in Syracuse?