You have no sense of historical context, do you?

Simple fix: don't ever set your voicemail password.

I went over 10 years without enabling my dreaded voicemail, some people complained but I never budged. My current Director told me to set it up about six months ago. I did and used a random integer set from random.org as the password.

I can honestly say "I forgot my voicemail password" and let the thing fill up.

Stupid fucking article. The exact same thing exists in the current Windows Phone 8.1. Looking at it on my phone right now. The wording is even exactly the same.

No, they love people like you. They get 2% of everything you spend!

I had never heard of "microagression" before this article. That tumblr blog has plenty of whiny lulz, thanks!

Right. If this company's total IT budget is more than $80K, then they should be using the cloud instead of having in-house IT. $80K is about the cost of *one* decent admin. That doesn't include hardware, software, or the rest of the IT staff, either.

Unfortunately, CIOs and other execs just see the numbers on a spreadsheet and don't take the costs of outages that you can't control into account.

You're just pulling that statement out of your ass. Most people who run large companies aren't stupid, and I'm sure that many of them do take into consideration the costs of outages.

Sure, but when you have outages and stability issues which impact your business, is it really a good trade off?

It depends. Sometimes, yes.

Here we go, endless posts about how it's all down to pure willpower and entirely the fault of the individual.

Hey, if you know of an example where mass was spontaneously created without the addition of energy, it's vitally important that you tell somebody. Physicists everywhere need to know if there's a place in our universe where the law of conservation of mass doesn't apply (in general relativity, of course).

I doubt that OpenStack can handle it, but if they have the $$ for it, I'm sure that it's no big deal for Oracle.

Comparing health to the price of gas is moronic. Anybody who values a robust economy more than health can go suck on a tailpipe.

Class warfare has nothing to do with it, you thick shit. The wealthy run the large companies, which in turn own the governments (at least in the US), who make the decisions not to do anything about climate change, and also to spew utter horseshit like, "There's nothing we can do." Regular people aren't the ones clamoring to do nothing about climate change.

It's time for the alarmist side to stop pretending there are any policy choices on the table to prevent the warming they are predicting.

What the *fuck* are you talking about? There's plenty of stuff that can be done. The only reason that they're not being done is that the wealthy would have to foot the bill, and they don't want to.

Sounds like he just watched Prometheus.

As long as the weather on the island of Islay stays the same so the flavour of Laphroaig never changes, the rest doesn't matter