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Comment Re:Oh i think its overvalued but its much differen (Score 1) 252

The reason I would avoid Uber stock is their business model falls foul of the law in most of the countries where they operate, only a matter of time until they are shut down.

Ha! Don't you get it?? Laws are meant for you and I, not for huge companies (or the .0001% who control them)... though I imagine that you may've been told differently).

With billions in venture capital funding to play with, it's only a matter of time until Uber gets most of those laws rendered moot - at least the ones that matter, anyway; Uber will obviously have to continue to strategize and pick their battles (Deutschland, for example, probably won't be selling out their taxi industry to Corporate America any time soon). :)

Comment Re:Exiting...Giving up...Spinning off (Score 1) 188

Say what you will about Sony but in the 80s and 90s you want a damned good cutting edge piece of gear that will easily last the better part of a decade if not longer? Then YOU BOUGHT SONY

Sony's quality was acceptable enough in the 70's and 80's but had already begun to turn to shit by the time the 90's were underway.

If you wanted very good Japanese electronics, you bought Pioneer or Kenwood. If you wanted damned good, you BOUGHT DENON. :)

Comment Re:Tin Foil Hat Time (Score 1) 227

You have a lot of rational paranoia here. Tin foil or no, I often wonder if some of the VPN services are just honeypots.

There's always spinning up free instances in Azure or another host like AWS, and trying your hand there; at least the circuits would be somewhat secure. But if you're doing something at a monitored host and its record list is tracked, your IP access would at least be tracked. You might need several of these in a tawdry, highly latent chain to make things tough. That said, for some that need this, diligence might pay off. For others using such circuits for evil, I wish them failure.

Comment Re: Yes (Score 1) 716

Slow down. We disagree on all your points.

First, use grub2 to set alternate boots. Not tough.
Second, use rsyslog or install syslog-ng to push out the logs to a log server so you can see why it goes down.
Third, BIOS is still the longest part of my boots; not sure what you're using.
Fourth, the file format you loathe is easy pushed back to half-ASCII if you simply must; you can ask chron to push it for you regularly, if you're really anal.

As far as stability is concerned, mine are just fine, thanks, doing their jobs nicely. This .ini problem you speak of is no different from the madness of other conf files that permeate the landscape, and prior versions are worse. I can squirt plentiful relevant system calls to one freaking spot, not eleven, and not nineteen different goofball apps twisting relevant settings through backdoors going back to Minix. I call that progress. It enforces a little discipline.

Comment Re: Yes (Score 1) 716

Oh, sure. Are you sure it wasn't the fact that all of the Sun engineers exited for greener pastures, and Oracle left the openness in a ditch? Took all of Schwartz's pile of open goodies and stepped on them like they were cockroaches?

C'mon. Say something real.

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