Cloudflare avoids responsibility for illegal content which is shielded by their services by claiming First Amendment freedoms, by claiming they don't "host" any services, and other inane bullshit.

Why the heck should anyone trust a company that says it's protecting the free speech of people who are running phishing web sites claiming to be Bank of America?

http://vax.zia.io/mail_part_1....

Be patient. It's running on a real VAX.

Casio and Timex will be ending support for timekeeping for all watches made before 2016. Currently owners will get a discount on the new 2018 models with subscription-based timekeeping.

Perhaps you have had no problems with systemd because you aren't trying to use it to do much.

Lots of people, myself included, have had issues trying to get things which are trivial in pre-systemd or on other OSes to work properly and consistently on systemd. There are many, many, many examples of issues. If someone asked me for examples, I'd have a hard time deciding where to start because so many things have been gratuitously changed. If you really think there aren't examples, just read this thread.

On the other hand, I have yet to see real technical discussion about problems that systemd apparently is fixing. I honestly and openmindedly am curious about what makes systemd good, so I've tried on several occasions to find these discussions where good technical reasoning is used to explain the motivations behind systemd. If they exist, I haven't found any yet. I'm hoping some will appear as a result of this thread.

But you bring up the idea that the "market has spoken"? You do realize that a majority of users use Windows, right? And people in the United States are constantly electing politicians who directly hurt the people who vote for them more than anyone else. It's called marketing. Just because something has effective marketing doesn't mean it doesn't suck.

If anyone's going to hate this, it's going to be Trump himself.

Take eight 64k x 1 memory chips, stack them, solder all pins together except for the data pin, then run a wire from each data pin, and you've just made a 64k x 8 memory module. Nothing new about this.

This copy was written for the Slashdot crowd? What's up?

I call bullshit. Leave Slack - which has NO notifications enabled, nor any other features allowed, alive overnight and check battery usage the next day and explain how a "frozen" app can take that much electricity.

ALWAYS force-quit Slack and other energy-hungry apps when you're not using them.

You know, you're not contributing to the discussion by trying to assert that Windows and any other OS are equivalent. Microsoft is the outlier. Mac OS X, the BSDs, and most GNU/Linuxes (I say most because many distros are sprinting towards being as Windows-like as possible) do not launch daemons that listen on public interfaces by default, nor do BeOS (Haiku), AmigaOS, QNX or others.

Windows comes insecure out of the box, and that's without turning on any services. Updates are painful and confusing. Do you know which patch fixes this issue just by looking at Microsoft's Windows Update list of updates? Didn't think so.

If you were my boss and insisted without discussion that putting a BSD machine on a public IP without a firewall was insecure, I'd insist that you'd be taken out of your position because you don't understand security at all.

PCs are personal computers. There are plenty of PCs which don't run Windows. The original article doesn't have this glaring mistake, and a Slashdot poster should know better.

Seriously - how incredibly stupid would it be to say that Burger King is "intruding" in to computer systems? We could just as easily use the same arguments to say that people who cause unwanted pop-ups have subverted the intended use of our browsers and are, therefore, "intruding".

But who's to say that some normal sounding dialogue doesn't incite some other piece of technology in the future? Should we have to keep a catalogue of all the things that can't be said, lest some listening device be woken?

Really, Lauren Weinstein, you haven't thought this through.

I'm interested to see the results of this, too. The idea that a watch needs to be charged daily (or nearly daily) is utterly ridiculous. Like my Palm Pilot 500 which can run for weeks or months on a pair of AAA batteries, I'd rather have something simple that requires little effort than something with a thousand features which requires constant attention, software updates and charging.

The only watch I currently own is a Casio G-Shock which syncs time via WWVB and keeps the battery charged via solar. The battery still needs to be replaced every seven years or so, though. Once I can replace the battery with a supercapacitor, I'd never have to open the watch for any reason, and I'd be happy.

There should be more computing which focuses on doing certain things exceedingly well instead of trying to do everything.

...and an AMD 5350 destroys this thing, and a Core i7 destroys an AMD 5350, and a POWER8 destroys a Core i7...

At $160, it's in a completely different league than a Raspberry Pi 3.

We all know that journalism is a thing of the past, and this is a perfect example. The official report says NOTHING about a Power Mac. In 2007, Apple wasn't even selling Power Macs. Furthermore, the report says that the server was experiencing connectivity issues with BlackBerries, not that it couldn't handle the load. I see no mention of load issues in the official report.

It has sucked so much lately, with so many security issues, that anything that requires Java has been replaced with something more modern. Just say no to Java!