This aptly describes my ex's first orgasm ever.

I used StartSSL to obtain a certif for my small website when they came up. Spent a while to learn the procedure. A year later I had to redo it all when it expired. Pain in the ass, so I gave up. There should be either: long duration certificates (just like you can get a domain for 10 years), or a shell script that you can cron on your server that will renew automatically yearly.

Can you imagine crime in Alaska: "what were you doing in the night from november 1st to february 15th ?"

Ask for a new one. Say you're not suing them for the soot in the apartment. Problem solved.

WTF is a 401K ?!? Can't you speak English ?

Good summary here. RIP.

I don't know, maybe one of your Windows VM catches a ransomware, it encrypts your network drive (which is basically your entire RAID), and before you notice all the encrypted files are backed up over the clean ones. Your backup is now useless, unless incremental.

Oh yeah ? From reading the summary, it sounds like a scam. But I'd really like to know on what principles this 'security driver' is based on. BTW, the title I used means that you are going to be torn to shreds in french. An aptly chosen name for a company with such claims !

Guy at work used his laptop as a holder for his wobbly wardrobe. With the expected result. He's now... cough, cough... the director of the workplace.

Genuine question here: I've been using Linux for most things for the past 15 years. For exactly 3 programs I still need Windows, so I run XP in a virtual machine. But I've been warned that the next versions of my progs won't support XP anymore, so I'll have to jump to Win10. Since I don't give a shit about any of the 'advancements' that have occured since then, how can I remove all the gimmicks and simplify the Windows user interface to make it like XP, simply ? Is there some Win10 to XP converter to keep me from trudging through endless options and shitty tweaking downloads ?

There's no lack of women in nudist camps...

Sodar, not sonar.

You have to read The Postmortal by Drew Magary, a SF book which brings up most of those points after the invention of a simple drug that simply stops ageing. With huge societal consequences.

Oh yeah, like the 'miracle' cure for hepatitis C recently invented, which cures 99% of patients who were previously incurable ? In my country it's priced at 60k$ per patient, as a surefire way to bankrupt the healhcare system. It wouldn't even surprise me if the pill cost 1$ to manufacture. It's not like there are alternatives.

Yes, and if you want examples of low voltage DC, you can look at the RV industry. Having recently bought a tiny RV wired in 12V, I saw how difficult it is to find, not equipment, but quality equipment for it. Power devices like hair dryer, vacuum cleaner, etc, simply don't work well. Not enough power.