When in office Condi supported warrentless wiretaps and so opposed the interests of the service that Dropbox provides to it's customers - secure storage.

They have a right to question whether her intentions have change or just the position from which she plans to execute them. Maybe it's easier to do this fro the boadroom before going back into politics.

This is more Elop than Eich.

The Eich case is merely: I don't want my political opponents to work again in this town.

The Elop case is: Not by the hair of my chinny chin chin I will not let the big bad wolf in.

Condi is clearly the Elop case, as she opposes the interests of the service, which is more than just an "unfortunate" political affiliation (i.e. not on my side) and "dubious" moral history (i.e. not what I would have done).

The flooding is because the EU has been paying farmers to cut down trees and leave none standing, and trees have been shown to reduce flooding by providing a channel for the water to leave the surface.

https://www.google.com/search?...

The EU policy is the sort of centralised policy management that the apoccalyptic warmers want. The worl is more likely to die under the well-meaning centralised and totally ignorant hand of the apoccalyptic wamers.

The latency of network access is higher than disk access; so doing more things at once as systemd permits will make a bigger difference than if you were just using local disks and /etc/passwd

Skynet is complete - you have made your chains now go and wear them somewhere else.

Consider TexMacs - uses scheme-like macro language (and scheme) - much better.

You leave your finger prints on your credit card.
They steal you card they also have your prints.

How dumb is that?

His SSD gave up out of shame for all the threats and abuse it had been forced to witness

I emailed canonical to ask if the full kernel source would be released.

By the time they answered "no" the first-day deal had sold out.

I don't know if I would have bought one, but I really want the full kernel source.

Sam

Maybe Pandora will "give" the radio station the money to buy a Pandora.
Pandora will of course have a long term licensing agreement with a new corp. Meta-Pandora and most of the money will get funnelled to Meta-Pandora.

Shame - vala is a really cool c(+) style language that hides a lot of the glib rot that was too hard to use.

No, the problem is not just the timezone, it is the tick tock problem too. The time zone problem is very easy to fix by saying "GMT"

It is harder than that, ntp is hard. ntp takes hours to stabilize before it will believe it has a decent idea of the time.

How do you know how long it took to get the time request from the BBC over http?

Do you think you might get two side-by-side PC's showing different times (out by 10 seconds) depending on link contention when they made their request?

BBC cannot solve this problem.

"Why are programmers exempt from workmanship standards?"

You will have to work that out for yourself, but you should know that analogies never win an argument especially car analogies on slashdot.

Darn right. This is the way to close free wifi hotspots.

Providers will not be able to pay for "approved" filtering, so one dodgy site slipping through would be grounds for prosecution; and so all free hotspot vanish.