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  1. Re: Please get rid of systemd! on SUSE Linux Sold For $2.5 Billion (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    And my wife married somebody who likes systemd, so her computers work fine. Go figure!

    Also, RAID 1 implies your data is really really important. If your data isn't important, and you're happy having it run on just one drive, why the fuck did you set it up for RAID 1? Give me a break. If you don't want your computer to spend time caring about your data, just use the second drive to hold regular backups from the first drive. If you want RAID 1 to be fully resistant to the loss of one drive, you need three drives. With two drives, the appropriate thing to do when a drive fails is to wait for a shutdown, and force your lazy ass to replace the drive. It is supposed to continue running with only one drive, it is not supposed to also start back up and pretend that your data is protected.

  2. Re:What is Slackware worth? on SUSE Linux Sold For $2.5 Billion (reuters.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    When you tell people to RTFM, they often don't realize the value provided! ;)

  3. Re:When will people learn on Google Allows Outside App Developers To Read People's Gmails, Says Report (thisisinsider.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The former looks like a good, cost-effective option until the company that manages your data screws your over or the internet goes down. The latter then starts to look like a better deal - but by then, it's too late.

    Or gets bought/merges and the people who own "your" data now don't screw you over at all; they just never made you any promises!

  4. Re:Please get rid of systemd! on SUSE Linux Sold For $2.5 Billion (reuters.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    All the main distros use it because it is good, a huge improvement.

    If it is causing you problems, my advice is to look for some kind of "linux for dummies" type of book. Or better, stop pretending you're a sysadmin and breaking your web terminal; try sticking to the stuff in the GUI menu.

  5. Re:What is Slackware worth? on SUSE Linux Sold For $2.5 Billion (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    SuSe sells support. For money.

    Slackware provides man pages. For free.

    Free * $2.5B = ?

  6. Re: Middlemen should be invisible on Patreon Is Suspending Adult Content Creators Because of Its Payment Partners (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    None of that is even true.

    You're an idiot whose ideas about American law come from some foreign newspaper's editorial pages.

    There are in fact churches dedicated to sex, and no they don't end up with access to the credit system. They have to use cash. Same as the church that worships marijuana.

    You don't comprehend the commerce clause, you don't comprehend the separation of church and state, and you don't comprehend who is in charge of decisions about which businesses have access to the credit card systems.

  7. Re: No, but I donâ(TM)t work at McDonalds ei on Ask Slashdot: Have You Ever 'Ghosted' an Employer? (linkedin.com) · · Score: 1

    You're an idiot.

    You don't even get a say.

    What happens is, the person's lawyer sends you a letter, your type up your stupid shit about how you can do whatever you want, and then they file the lawsuit. Then your insurance company's lawyers inform you that you're not allowed to say anything, and they settle the case, and then they raise your insurance rates.

    You can whine and cry all you like and feel important and Virtuous because you called people shysters, but it doesn't imply that you did any research into the realities of the situation. If you say something that causes somebody to be denied work, the burden of proof falls on you because you're not allowed to harm people financially. Them being denied work is harm. I'd say "ask your lawyer" first, but you're just a worker so you have no need to ever actually find out the truth about this. ;)

  8. Re: No, but I donâ(TM)t work at McDonalds ei on Ask Slashdot: Have You Ever 'Ghosted' an Employer? (linkedin.com) · · Score: 1

    It is also funny how accusations of ignorance sometimes omit knowledge. I wonder why they would do that?

    Also, it is funny how accusations of ignorance spring up even no details have been discussed. Must have got your knowledge about my knowledge from the crystal ball, or was it a talking mirror?

  9. Re: Win10 1803 is ready for prime time? Nope on ComputerWorld Says Newest Windows 10 'Isn't Ready for Prime Time' (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    The server version at that time (prior to public release of the consumer 2k) was actually NT4 with the new control panels, pretending to be the new OS. They were sending it out free to consultants because they wanted to fight against *nix on the server.

    But the Year of Windows on the Server never happened.

  10. Re: No, but I donâ(TM)t work at McDonalds ei on Ask Slashdot: Have You Ever 'Ghosted' an Employer? (linkedin.com) · · Score: 1

    It isn't about shysters, it is about burden of proof; the burden of proving that the statements are true falls on the employer when the words are intended to reduce their chances at employment. Employers don't want to have to pay for that many hours of legal work, even when they have good documentation. That is why so many refuse to say anything at all other than verifying employment dates; it leaves it implied that if they had anything good to say, it would be by a supervisor listed as a reference.

  11. Re: No, but I donâ(TM)t work at McDonalds ei on Ask Slashdot: Have You Ever 'Ghosted' an Employer? (linkedin.com) · · Score: 1

    You're in the only fairly normal city in a very large multi-state backwater area, so duh.

    It doesn't mean it is normal.

  12. Re:Beware Leaky DNA on Data From Open-Source Ancestry Site Leads to More Arrests (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 2

    The AMA is a lobbying group for conservative doctors. 25% of doctors are members. You seem confused about what their role is.

  13. Guns and porn today. Legal drugs tomorrow. Then church donations and non-socialist political candidates will be blacklisted.

    Patreon is mostly an American service. So no.

  14. You can't just process payments on a wish and prayer, though. How does the money eventually move? Existing payment processors are owned by banking conglomerates, and banks already have agreements to move money.

    It is easy to imagine making a new user-facing part, or imagining what your merchant policies would be, but how does the money get from the consumer to the merchant? Does the consumer have to mail you dollar bills, or what? Maybe they mail you a check or money order in advance, and then you mail the merchant a check?

    Even to build a low quality service like that where everybody had to pre-load their accounts, which could only be used at a few online vendors, you'd still have to have the investment money to start an actual real bank that is normally regulated. Otherwise, how do you access the ACH system to process checks?

  15. Re:Middlemen should be invisible on Patreon Is Suspending Adult Content Creators Because of Its Payment Partners (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, that all sounds good, until you realize that those laws don't actually push them to do this at all. They just don't want their name on the document subpoena, because they communicate with the world in such a way that nobody believes anything they say, and if they're asked about they'll put their foot in their mouth by default because their communications are all stuffed full of horseshit by policy.

    That's the real reason, because their PR drones can't answer a question about an investigation without making them sound complicit, so they don't want to serve industries that get investigated.

  16. Re: Middlemen should be invisible on Patreon Is Suspending Adult Content Creators Because of Its Payment Partners (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    You make me glad I'm American and not under the gun of a government with your theory about the breadth of their management responsibilities.

  17. Re:Win10 1803 is ready for prime time? Nope on ComputerWorld Says Newest Windows 10 'Isn't Ready for Prime Time' (computerworld.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    In `98 they sent me a free copy of Windows Server 2000, and it was very stable platform for my coffee for years. I hated coding without it there by my side, it just really enhanced my experience! And it wasn't like a cheapo from AOL that would lose the printing right away; it was really printed solid, like a powder-coat or something.

  18. What about the version in the movie "Pirates of Silicon Valley," is that ready for prime time? I don't think it was ready for the box office, surely it is ready for prime time though? Probably not ready for daytime viewing, though.

  19. Re:Upwork on Ask Slashdot: Is There a 'Gig Economy' Site For Tech Skills? · · Score: 2

    So you're saying you poorly specified your needs, and then when you stamped your feet and demanded the foreign worker just redo all the work and make something different than you specified, you were ruled against?

    Yeah, you're the real reason that so little tech work gets done in the "gig economy" style; tiny little miniature clients strut around like they're some kind of hot shit, and then try to refuse to pay.

  20. Re:There have been many on Ask Slashdot: Is There a 'Gig Economy' Site For Tech Skills? · · Score: 3, Informative

    A lot of those are going to be new users who are bidding low for promotional reasons because without reviews it is hard to win bids.

  21. Re:There have been many - why did they die? on Ask Slashdot: Is There a 'Gig Economy' Site For Tech Skills? · · Score: 1

    Or, to be profitable they used industry averages in their predictions, and then they drive the prices down in their own market segment so they can't make what they need, even when they have the number of users and contracts that they predicted.

  22. Re:There have been many on Ask Slashdot: Is There a 'Gig Economy' Site For Tech Skills? · · Score: 1

    I did this after the "dot com bust," and I found that even if I bid below minimum wage, the Indians would outbid me every time.

    I guess it is the same with taxi drivers these days, except it is locals outbidding them.

  23. Re:Nice site you have there on Google Downranks 65,000 Pirate Sites In Search Results (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    I'll bet most of the pirate sites would really love it if google would accept them to show their advertising, they'd make more money.

  24. Re:Who the fuck cares on Google Downranks 65,000 Pirate Sites In Search Results (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    If you learned that English is an open language, and that the things your teacher taught you as rules were just a "style guide" from some school, and that there are competing style guides that disagree, and that all the people who wrote the style guides actually agree they're not rules... would your inner "grammar nazi" execute itself?

    The thing about "grammar nazis" is that in English, if enough people do it so that you can know about it and list it as something you're opposed to, that already guarantees that it is a known construction, and is therefore correct. All errors are either internal inconsistencies, or one-off literal mistakes.

  25. Re:Who the fuck cares on Google Downranks 65,000 Pirate Sites In Search Results (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Conversations easily get complexicated because so many factions are busy creating echo chambers.

    Oh, wait, you didn't understand that you really can add suffixes to create new words, so you didn't comprehend what the word you used would mean if constructed that way? I'm not surprised.