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Comment Re:80% of the market still (Score 1) 67

Server CPUs are far more expensive than their general market equivalent. I wonder how much of the resistance to change here is down to companies trying to keep their IT hardware homogenous, in other words, once their loss of market share there hits a certain point it will be very difficult to repair the damage.
Pat Gelsinger saw the problems and is trying to fix them, but he's dealing with a supertanker and it takes a very long time to turn things around.

Comment Re:It's not the office (Score 1) 149

Where is the limit? The commute in a recent job was in the region 25-30 minutes each way and the advantages of being on site outweighed the disadvantages by a distance. Then they closed those offices and moved ("consolidated") further away, the distances involved was not that different but at that point driving to work became intolerable.

Comment Re:Errrm, .... no, not really. (Score 2) 94

A website I visit occasionally has suffered two serious outages in the past 3-4 years, both times because the hosting company installed a new version of PHP.
The first outage lasted several weeks, and the site has never regained the original full functionality it lost back then. The second outage was just a couple of days, and may well have been "fixed" by reinstalling the older PHP.
Both times it was an older, buggy version with known security holes which had been replaced (I think there had been a security incident months before the longer outage, they had to reload the content from backups), but why does installing a new level have to break existing software?

Comment Re:Guess who's gonna be flipping burgers at McD (Score 2) 72

I'd initially thought of Airbus, but he'd have to relocate to France or Germany and the FAA would probably be a better fit.
The disadvantages of Airbus would be: language (although I think the official language at work would be English), and Boeing would then start floating the claim that he'd been planning to move all along and that the complaints were to damage his old employer and build up the new one.

Comment Re:This isn't like the social media censorship cas (Score 2) 70

I've been accused of file sharing some porn film - it was at least 10 years ago - but proving a negative turned out to be impossible with the legal situation the way it was then, all I could do was limit the damage. My ISP did not drop me, although I later dropped them because I was still furious about the way things went down. I live in a decent sized city and have a choice when it comes to selecting an ISP.
Imagine a situation where an ISP is forced to drop customers based on data which can be spoofed, and the customers have neither redress nor alternatives.

Comment Re:Full name and birthdate can coincide (Score 1) 88

That sounds a bit . . . far fetched. All three of you being in the system as having been born on the same date (that includes the year).
I know three sisters whose birthdays are spread over 3-4 days, but the youngest one is two years younger than her eldest sister and all three of them were born on different days of that month. Their parents were also intelligent enough to give them different names.

Comment Re:Do these ever work? (Score 1) 85

Pelosi is Nancy Pelosi.
As to blaming Biden, he was elected slightly over 3 years ago so the chances of him being responsible for something which happened "years ago" are fairly remote. Given that little detail, the chances of Nancy Pelosi being materially involved are slightly higher if TheSlashdotHunter's state is California.

Comment Re:Full name and birthdate can coincide (Score 1) 88

How about For 18 years, I thought she was stealing my identity. Until I found her? Two women in NYC, both born on the same day, one black and one white, both called Lisa S Davis. The police were too lazy to differentiate, judges simply did not care. At least someone in the DMV did care (and remembered the situation when it happened again).

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