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Comment Re:If the visible hand of government lets go (Score 2) 435

Get your facts straight. Fossil fuels are never subsidized, but instead heavily taxed by the governments.

They are both, subsidized AND taxed. Not everywhere in the same way, though. Did you know the UK subsidizes oil extraction in the north sea? The reason is of course cronyism and corruption.

Corporations are subsidized while citizens are taxed.

Comment Apache2 fix (Score 1) 110

In my view, this should fix the error provided you change TLSv1 to 1.1 or 1.2. We are forced to run SSLv3 on our servers for PCI compliance.

SSLProtocol -all +SSLv3 +TLSv1
SSLCipherSuite ALL:!aNULL:!ADH:!eNULL:!LOW:!EXP:RC4+RSA:+HIGH:+MEDIUM#SSLv3:+HIGH:+MEDIUM

Comment Re:hopefully SRT can be more fully advanced (Score 1) 288

This is partly your fault for trusting a company called OCZ with a brand new controller (SandForce) that was only apparently optimized for speed. Be a little conservative and it'll pay off. I'm a happy owner of a WD Sliconedge Blue branded drive in a gaming box and I've been very happy with it. It's no speed demon but it works well. Not sure what SSD came with my imac but needless to say that works fine as well.

Comment Re:MS hate (Score 1) 358

And by the way, IT changes fast in general, no developer can honestly expect to code in the same language from college to retirement. HTML5 - and the languages that you actually write code in like JQuery - are in an extreme prototype state right now, going to change radically several times in the next years before people figure out that they completely screwed up some important paradigms and start parts of the standard from scratch for HTML6. Everyone will have to keep relearning their languages if they want to stay current.

WTF, jquery is not in prototype stage. Prototype is another javascript framework ;).

Comment Re:Dentist appointment next Monday :( (Score 1) 432

Amazingly that behaviour is CCA running correctly. IT can set parameters as to the list of allowed programs. Usually they offer their corporate AV suite for home which is on the CCA approved list for me. I tried running it but it fucked up my Win7 machine and made it laggy.

Went back to using a mac which didn't need CCA. Linux used to be able to connect without CCA too but then IT changed their VPN to some Cisco Java monstrosity (rather than the old Linux module) and I couldn't connect any longer.

Comment Re:No. (Score 1) 511

You know, while you are technically correct, timeOday has a good point. My old Linux laptop (Toshiba R200 Pentium 733 Mhz) worked almost perfectly with Debian or Ubuntu. Even the little custom buttons worked. However, hibernate didn't work. Well it did if disabled wireless, but the module loading when waking from hibernate always killed the wireless. I'm sure things have gotten better but OSX is just better as far as power management is concerned.

Look at Macbooks when loaded with Windows or Linux vs OSX. OSX works very well with PM. I won't bother mentioning the PM regression in the newest kernel. Fucking Linus and his I don't need a stable tree bullshit.

Comment Re:Not anymore.... (Score 1) 298

We're not talking about these apps which were native apps and not web apps.

Yes, that's exactly what we are talking about. The whole point of the article is that if these services now want to be on the iPhone, etc without paying that cut to Apple they will need to create a web app, and when they attempt to integrate them seamlessly using Apple's recommended method, they will run more slowly for no apparent reason.

No dumbass we're not. Subscription services now HAVE to offer in app purchase as well as web store purchases at the same price. There is no reason to force them to be slower when using a web store.

Comment Re:Groupon customers not good in the long run (Score 1) 298

The idea of landing a big number of first-time customers sounds great until the customers start coming in. From the experiences of business owners I know, Grouponers were, simply put, cheap (not condemning cheap people here, as the times demand it for many.) If the groupon is "get $50 for $25," you better damn be sure most customers will spend the $50 and not a penny more. And if it's a restaurant, they'll tip on the $25.

What??? Who the fuck are these assholes? I sure as hell have never done that (I just used a groupon at a restaurant yesterday and tipped on the full amount... maybe I'm just an outlier?).

I think we often hear the worst case scenarios anecdotally. None of my friends that use groupons would do that either. I still doubt groupon is a big plus for most businesses or worth a lot of money. It is an easy business to break into.

Comment Re:This is unacceptable (Score 3, Informative) 840

Egypt is somewhat progressive for a muslim state, but that's not saying much. That said, make sure you don't confuse America friendly with progressive. The two do not go hand in hand, at least in the muslim world.

That said, Egypt has a decent sized Christian minority (15%) that I think does OK which again is rare for a muslim state

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