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  1. As somebody who looks after mail servers a skill deemed worthless by cloud fanboys how is the cloud dream living up to reality?

  2. Prime is idiotic from an consumer economics pov on 'Amazon Prime is Getting Worse' (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 0

    Not a big amazon customer and i do not have prime but prime is bad for the consumer if they have it.

    Two examples
    usb keyboard - amazon showed me the deals for prime only deals so add $99 to the cost, that's an very expensive cheap spare keyboard which i bought elsewhere.

    The book, marked up +$12 over a competitor store, also non amazon sale.

    So prime is dumb for consumers. but i guess " i got free post but still spent $12 extra is value for money" or " my new keyboard cost $ 90 extra"

    I recently had to get a new phone since one was stolen from a family member i opted for he cheapest delivery and it arrived sooner than i expected even if had taken a week or so to arrive there was no panic.

    A couple of weeks later i got an invite to prime in the post, i declined that offer.

  3. A lot of exdisplay/return goods are as new from amazon. Just because an idiot could not use it does not mean it is broken.

    I would not buy some certain items for conterfiet reasons.

  4. I have no idea how you 'make' Ethereum since most of web pages i once quickly looked at (dns has something to do with it) where written in Cyrillic and used shady software . Still have no idea.

  5. When will Cave Johnsons exploding lemons be released

  6. I had one of those types call me an idiot here for not having a gpu card that cost thousands of dollars according to nvid logic. I think based on what they said they spent there btc on meant they where a teenager as a sony playstation was the result.

    Still do not own an gpu.

  7. Re:I want an opensource or bto card on As Cryptocurrency Values Plummet, Graphics Card Pricing Improves Dramatically (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    how about a numeric coprocessor model - ok its going back to the early i386 , say a board with multiple sockets and ram sockets.

    So you buy the card, a processor, the ram module

    My thoughts are flawed here with multiple cores now but thats my concept.

  8. I want an opensource or bto card on As Cryptocurrency Values Plummet, Graphics Card Pricing Improves Dramatically (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    I am not paying $1600 for a out of date gpu from two companies [of which nvida is shady] which comes with a proprietary driver. Just because nvida thinks that is what i want - no thanks

    I would rather buy a pci card, load it with the ram myself and fit a gpu

    Until then i shall stick with the one on my mobo.

  9. You and i might not use them but our friends at shodan.io will scan for them regardless.

  10. Hardisks / ssd's with win 10 metric on Microsoft Says 700M Devices Now Run Windows 10 (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    We buy pcs without Microsoft licences (not from the famous brands) and still get microshit software on disk so if they consider new harddisk sales as a metric there wrong.

    Could run does not mean it runs it.

  11. Re:the further proprietization of email. on Google is Testing Self-Destructing Emails in New Gmail (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Microsoft have a similar feature, which looks retarded outside of exchange sites and makes the staff using that feature still look like idiots.

    I once had a mainframe email account with such a feature.

    I wonder what the us courts think about use of such features legacy it might be evidence tampering.

  12. Its not debian installed by default

    beep does what you'd expect: it beeps. But unlike printf "\a" beep allows
    you to control pitch, duration, and repetitions. Its job is to live inside
    shell/perl scripts and allow more granularity than one has otherwise. It is
    controlled completely through command

    I suppose somebody needs that, not us.

  13. steam on smart tv's soon ? on Valve Removes Steam Machines From Its Home Page (extremetech.com) · · Score: 1

    I would guess a game platform like on a smart tv sooner or later. Steam machines are a nice reminder that not everything has to be microsoft but i guess the lack of gpu's and Linux support for crappy proprietary drivers say from nvidia did not help.

    I run linux (no windows) and even i steer clear of gpu's.

    An integrated smart tv (normally linux) with decent games i recon is where the consoles and steam will go next

  14. Re:Does anyone actually use that on WHATIS Going To Happen To WHOIS? (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I do. - we also count bad dns requests to our dns servers - hit a limit and well thats not my problem

  15. Re:WHOIS for netblocks is very useful on WHATIS Going To Happen To WHOIS? (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I agree - any whois that says do not block me, or "I AM NOT SPAMMING YOU" is worthy of a mallet

  16. 'threatening' http urls too on FBI Warns of Email Death Threats Demanding Bitcoin (abc7.com) · · Score: 1

    websites used also get requests like

    i_will_killl_you_today

    back then and recorded - so the nsa and five eyes know as they record traffic in Room 641A

  17. tsa stealable categoy on Airlines Restrict 'Smart Luggage' Over Fire Hazards Posed By Batteries (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Could mean that the tsa will steal it after being inspected - not a bomb - then it goes to wherever your shady tsa staff 'sell' stuff to.

  18. No wonder pi's are hard to buy on There's A Cluster of 750 Raspberry Pi's at Los Alamos National Lab (insidehpc.com) · · Score: 1

    When somebody buys 750 all at once.

    It was my experience that pi's are hard to buy so i gave up trying to get one. Mind you when people use ancient rasbian os and make 'secure' email servers on port 26 and then get called out for issues it is good to see that somebody is using them properly instead of poorly.

  19. Re:The cloud is "somebody's else's computer" on Google Explains Tuesday's Drive, Docs Bug That Marked Some Files As Violating Terms of Service (9to5google.com) · · Score: 1

    I visit a dentist who is an absolute fanboy of alphabet - heating controller, email and probably his backend are all stored on google things.

    Its mildly concerning but its nor my responsibility

  20. Re: hpkp 'backup' certs - 'insurance' on Google To Remove Public Key Pinning (PKP) Support In Chrome (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    I am sure it is possible to do hpkp but since dnssec [tlsa] is easier imho and with csp's the need to have a backup ca means its a lot of work for something most do not give a stuff about.

    A backup ca infers that the real ca is untrustworthy. What should a ca be? My head hurts on that issue.

  21. hpkp 'backup' certs - 'insurance' on Google To Remove Public Key Pinning (PKP) Support In Chrome (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Why would a site buy tls certs from a ca and not use them? - eg an active and backup ca provider since better tls certs have 'insurance' quite how you claim it is another matter.

    Sure letencrypt made it easier to have a backup ca (random certs mean you need to apparently edit your but hpkp config often for hashes seems that hpkp is disaster.

    If you did not have a backup ca (caa record needs to reflect it also) then hpkp is deemed incomplete. I can see reasons.

  22. bitcoin seen from a distance on Bitcoin Splits in Two Amid Feud (cnet.com) · · Score: 0

    early on - I once requested a free bitcoin - it never arrived, later mtgox got hacked and the bitcion community never really recovered from that imho.

    Then I had another go at bitcoin some years ago and somehow came to the conclusion that while i had store of gigabytes of useless crap for which i needed to buy a gpu for or a btc 'rig'/server to do stuff.

    Having no btc one of our last microsoft windows pc succumbed to ransomware, i was glad i did not pay - it got us ms free- yes we had backups of data. Inconvenience is cheaper.

    At that point i quit Even today i see http bots looking for walet.dat files

    I still do not own a $600+ gpu.

    This dungeons and dragons money (mtgox) is a bit useless. It wont buy beer

  23. Would a millennial 'Nolan' get a hollywood break ? on Nolan's Cinematic Vision in 'Dunkirk' is Hollywood's Best Defense Against Netflix (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 1

    I think Nolan does make good films but i wonder if Memento his first mainstream film would get a cinema distribution deal if he was starting now.

    Nolan might not make standard Hollywood films but they are very different in idea to your average cinema goer these days gets.

  24. systemd is linux cancer on In Which Linus Torvalds Makes An 'Init' Joke (lkml.org) · · Score: 1

    some things use systemd, others use the init.d scripts and the /etc/default/ (even in debian 9 the latest) systemd appears to not use /etc/default or you need to generate the systemd file from it.

    Then you have to daemon-reload systemd to try out

    Finding these systemd startup scripts is a nightmare if you need to adjust them.

    Maybe we upgrade linux to bsd nextime.

  25. vr is for microsoft os? on The Oculus Rift Still Isn't Selling, In a Worrying Sign For VR (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    As a linux user with a steam account i appear to notice that the vr games (i looked at the recent steam sale) appeared to be for windows users only or collaborative with two plus players.

    Maybe this vr stuff is more os tolerant than they indicate but i am not buying a vr headset just to see if may or may not work.