When there is real malware out in the wild causing millions of systems to be breached, then Linux will be "as secure as Windows". Until then, it's just ranting of trolls repeating well refuted ideas and conflating everyone else's mere bugs with actually malware.

> Since when is Rolex good at making discrete watches ?

Their base models are very discrete and very durable too. They will survive a beating that would send a legion of cheaper watches to their grave.

Nope. This iWatch is even inferior to mechanical watches.

A good mechanical watch will wind itself. All you have to do is wear it regularly.

Agreed. I am not watching their commercials period. I would pay extra for an alternate ad-free option before I would bother with this nonsense.

Although CBS comes in fine OTA where I live...

> You can be certain that skipping commercials will cost you more than $20 extra

I can already get ad free reruns for only $8.

With an antenna, I can get them for FREE.

Why should anyone expect it to cost as much as what you're claiming?

> The point is that you're constantly missing stuff that you've payed for, even with a DVR.

No you're not. You're just being a hysterical moron.

> People "think" they want TV a la carte (pay for only the channels you want) but they don't understand how the industry works

You can already get ala carte RIGHT NOW. It's called iTunes and Amazon. Since Amazon is nice and open with it's platform, anyone can see how much they might spend if they were to trade cable for "ala carte". There is no mystery here.

On the other hand, some people just hate the idea that they are subsidizing dreck like Duck Dynasty. We're that kind of cable cutter.

So the price of shows on Amazon isn't even a thing for us since no one in the household minds paying for shows we actually like.

A PC acting as a DVR should be running IDLE most of the time. It should be pretty much nearly completely shut down and not drawing much of anything.

Although there's commercial detection and flagging to consider. That's not something you're going to get from any appliance as those kinds of features tend to trigger nasty lawsuits from big content.

Skip the commercial flagging and you can almost run a DVR on a Raspberry PI (which is kind of what those appliance boxes are anyways).

Hello! McFly!

There's something called reruns.

So you miss an episode. Real great tragedy there. Perfect excuse to never bother at all too.

Yes. But that is precisely the kind of TV that is the easiest to automate with a DVR. The tech is nice and simple and DRM free. Anyone can do it. There are no stumbling blocks that make it the sole domain of Microsoft and Tivo.

> The credit card companies and issuing banks can see every transaction, thus, they have the capability to create a very sophisticated anti-fraud system. They could easily identify a pattern indicating fraud

You mean like American Express.

The strange (don't even know what to call them) shills like to whine about AMEX fees but they are actually rather diligent when it comes to trying to detect fraudulent spending patterns.

Merchant accounts are "such a burden" that even single person operations can manage to accept the major credit cards.

> Secure? I have no problems keeping on me credit cards with $30k spending limits. Would you keep that amount in cash on you all the time with no fear of getting robbed?

Cash equivalents are readily available in those amounts and they can be secured if stolen.

Although it's dubious that you actually require the ability to make a $30K payment. You probably wouldn't get authorization for such a thing even if you attempted it.

Of course what you are describing there is not your actual spending power but your total line of credit.

You are confused and you are muddling terms you don't seem to understand.

The two terms are not mutualy exclusive

> Professional sysadmin here. The only bitching I've seen has been from deranged Slashdot hobbyists.

Really? You should work harder on your trolling then because you are completely unconvincing.

> That is exactly what systemd does, without all the hacks of the script.

That "hack" is simply a program. If it looks like a "hack" then that's simply the complexity required for the task. If that complexity is unnecessary, then the end user can create something simpler and it will all be a simple matter.

If the task is complex, you aren't making it any simpler by hiding it in a black box. Hiding the details only makes things look deceptively tidy. It doesn't actually make them tidy.