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Comment But... but... "Strict Policies!" (Score 1) 79

"Kimberly Del Greco, a deputy assistant director at the FBI, said the bureau has strict policies for using facial recognition."

Let me tell you what those policies are:
1) We have this resource, and you never will.
2) We'll never give it up.
3) We'll never be honest about what its scope is and how we use it.

Comment It's Like Winning The Lottery (Score 2, Interesting) 161

Yeah, I suppose if volunteering works out for you, it could be amazing. New lifelong friends with similar life goals, community respect, media exposure, and turning a corner in your life where everything starts looking up.

Except it very likely won't. Charities assume you won't be around long, and often just rush you through orientation, training, and putting you to work without engaging you and treating like you're a real part of the program. Other volunteers all sit around glumly, disinterested in friending any of the other volunteers once they've seen them. The ones you strike up awkward conversations with never return or volunteer again. Anything that happens could spell your termination. There's no respect for people who have any kind of personality or sense of humor. You're just a troublemaker to them. They want bland people who work hard and don't talk a lot.

In my own particular case, I had an evil woman from the neighborhood association monitoring my cheerful updates on faecebook, then reaching out to each charity I talked about to tell them god knows what, to poison my relationship with them. Then, one of the groups I joined was domineered by a small core clique who called all the shots while pretending to be all about love and democracy. I discovered that they had been helping themselves to the funds donated for their annual event. They sued me (yes, in court) to be silent, seized all of the media, lists and works I'd built for them, and also framed me for some nonexistent "hacking" issues.

It's just not worth it. The problem with the world is people. The fewer people there are, the better. And best to stay away from the ones there already are. Don't volunteer unless your middle name is "sucker".

Comment Re:Virtualmin (Webmin + Usermin) (Score 1) 337

@iggymanz: you give terrible advice.
I did not say virtualization was a requirement. I said it makes moving much easier, and that's still true.
GUIs are better than command-line. Not only can you dispense with arcane commands, but you can check the current status of your settings in a glance. I'm sure you can find a way to drive your car without a windshield and steering wheel too, but I'm not going to recommend it.
There is no nonsense about needing an outbound relay, dude. IF the port isn't blocked by your ISP, and it probably is, you can send email, sure. But your originating IP address will be blacklisted and your recipients won't get those emails. You'd know that if you'd run a mail server for two days.

Comment Virtualmin (Webmin + Usermin) (Score 1) 337

Spin up a virtual machine using free s/w like Virtualbox, install an edition of Ubuntu Linux, then install the free version of Virtualmin.

The virtual machine will give you the freedom to move your servers to better hardware if you like, or even move it to a cloud server. Virtualmin will give you an amazing web-based interface to launch and manage all kinds of servers such as Postfix email. You'll be able to receive email directly, use free blacklist services and also install local spam & virus filters, but you'll have to relay your outgoing mail through a freemium service such as Mailgun.

Comment Re: DERP (Score 2) 173

Ride-shares are cheaper than taxis, and being an option added to the pool of resources to choose from, their availability means they may be available when traditional taxis are busy. You won't be waiting as long. Most reasonable people would consider this to be "better service". They don't necessarily "ignore" regulations, they're exempt from regulations traditional taxi services are obliged to observe because they don't enjoy a monopoly and are structured differently.

The conflict is that the traditional taxi business model is no longer competitive, even when they enjoy a monopoly. They complain that this is "unfair" and wish to tilt the playing field and preserve their business model. by hobbling ride-shares with all of the responsibility (regulations) of the taxi services, but none of the benefits (monopolies). But of course, the traditional taxi services "only want the best" for their beloved customers, and their hearts ache for the poor ride-share drivers who are just slaves - SLAVES!

Comment Re: DERP (Score 2) 173

What's so beautiful about this is that ride-share services are eating taxi companies alive by simply providing customers with better service. They're competing against taxi monopolies who openly attack them in every way possible, including shamelessly blaming them for the same problems taxis cause, and accusing them of the same things we know taxi companies are determined to do to the arrogant interlopers. DERP DORP THHHHHHPPPPPPP

Comment Re:Can confirm. Fuckwit Uber and Lyft drivers (Score 1) 173

Your last line makes a good point. Which is that a lot of the irritations caused by ride-shares are exactly the same as those caused by taxis. Taxi advocates tap-dance around this. The reason why ride-shares are eating taxi companies alive is that, because they don't enjoy a monopoly, they are motivated to provide better service. They're often cheaper AND often more responsive for the passengers. They're not "unfair" to taxi companies, THEY'RE BETTER. Taxi companies aren't entitled to an even playing field. If they really thought so, then they would give up the monopolies which they hold. Monopolies have led to ever-degrading quality of service, ever-increasing fares, and led to riders hating taxi service even when there was NO competition.

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