The ones that were fixed by the updates for all RHEL-derived distros, like CentOS, a month ago?

                  mark

What data and metadata do they have on the President, and his advisors, and the Cabinet? I mean, if they were listening to Prime Minister Merkel of Germany, and on, and on, why wouldn't they listen locally, if only to ensure their own funding?

                mark

Given the way so much stuff - including internal to companies I've worked for, no way. Links work... if you're on the internal network, not outside. Software runs SO FAST... until you're not on the intranet, and then it's a dog.

And developers always get and test on the hottest machines or servers... never mind the 95% of the folks going to that site, or using that software, are 1-2 generations of hardware back, and again, it runs like a dog, or requires you to buy new hardware.

So if you did it on superdooperpowerfast cloud hardware, you'd still not see how *users* see it.

                    mark

So, you want to pay, um, $400 every other year, or $800 for both, as the cameras break, or get broken, or the software goes buggy, or one of the vulnerabilities are found, and someone hacks your rear vision?

And for the moron who says get rid of all mirrors, I want your car taken away from you, and you banned from driving for the rest of your life.

              mark "for our next trick, we'll do the same for the fools doing their makeup while driving"

The US is *still* doing this crap, presumably to cater to the folks who were for the dictator Batista, or the Mafia, who's still pissed at loosing all the money from those casinos?

Why is the US so in bed with China, if those in the "intelligence community" (for values of each of those words approaching zero as a limit) are so desperate to bring down China?

I want my tax dolars wasted on this back.

                  mark

Having just done something very un-slashdot-like (well, it *used* to be what a lot of us did, but not the last few years), i noted that it was hitting in the midst of a famine... which is when a) many, many people would have weakened immune systems, and b) did you unbelievably rich folks, who can eat three meals a day (or more)(or supersized) without thinking about it think that the concept of stewed rat was only in, say, Monty Python?

And if the fleas hit the folks catching them, and then it mutated, or there were both strains.....

                    mark

94% of waiters will be replaced with automation? Ah, they didn't even do that in the old Horn and Hardart Automats. Do you *really* want all your meals out to be buffet style? Or is that all of them are prepacked and they nuke it for you? In that case, why go out?

Or, for that matter, would you trust a completely automated fast food joint? Wait until the first lawsuits over someone getting sick, or dying, becuase some sensor went off.

Reatil salespeople? You mean, like in the supermarkets with self-check? Those folks who come over to deal with when it goes off - they're not people?

And, for that matter, if you raise the minimum wage - and do NOT try to claim that most folks working minimum wage are teenagers living at home; that's an outright and provable lie - some of those folks might be able to go down to one or two jobs, instead of two or three. Or, if you raise it to a living wage, as some cities have done, or are doing, even more can go down to holding down one job.

But so many of you are stupid fools who think that working 80 hour weeks means you're Important, rather than that your manager sees you have no life whatever of your own, and that they own you.

                    mark

--
"There's a sucker born every minute" - PT Barnum

I have long said I preferred elegant to clever code. When I get a phone call on Friday, at 16:15, or 02:00 some night, I want to leave on time, or go back to sleep that night, *NOT* spend hours figuring out how this bit of cleverness is broken, or how someone's "the code's more compact!" is suitable for entry in the Obfuscated C contest.

But to write elegant code, you need to a) know what you're trying to accomplish; b) tell your manager, or whoever, that no, you can't make that kind of major change without their $$$ signoff on a change to the schedule, complete with specing out the change, and its affects on everything else; c) having the time to write, test, and debug the code, and this does *NOT* include drinking a six-pack of Mountain Dew a day, and doing 80+ hour weeks.

Yes, I *have* had jobs like that. And 70+ or 80+ hour weeks result in a *lot* less "productivity" than the old 40-hour week (and try looking up where that number came from... the name Ford may surprise you in that....).

                            mark "as opposed to managers w/ MBA, who think that you can point and click a good system"

The year before the US, under Bush and Cheney and Rummy, invaded and conquered Iraq (for no particulatly good reason), there was a naval exercise imitating the invasion.. Gen. Shinsecki, on the defending forces, blew up a number of ships, including, IIRC, an aircraft carrier, by sending small fishing vessels, much harder-to-hit targets than capital ships, in packed with HE.

My personal bet on this imitation Nimitz is that it's a target, to work out similarly effective attacks.

I know, no fun, nothing to laugh at....

                      mark

Since the OP says that their second choice is sysadmin, they've got a possibility: ask his employer about being kicked upstairs to Tier 2 tech support, or Tier 3.

Or are they moving everything across the border, Timotht?

                  mark

Sorry. RHEL (and thus CentOS, and I presume Scientific Linux) have 10 year support.

                  mark

Let's see, the head of Mt. Gox unloaded all his bitcoins, and then told his users. Prosecutors are looking into this.

Goshawowie, where did they find this "old", "lost" file, in the head honcho's smartphone?

                    mark

Really? Why? You don't think there's a good supply of programmers who know Linux out there from, oh, all the telecoms*? Or most of the stock trading companies? How 'about Fortune 500 companies that use some other version of Unix, like, say, Lowe's?* Or how about Android programmers? Or.... shall I go on?

You's is a statement based on no facts, or ignorance thereof.

                            mark

* Why, yes, I have worked at two major telecoms, and a short contract at Lowe's, so yes, I do actually know what I'm talking about.

Which is, of course, more vulnerable, and therefore the schools systems are more vulnerable, esp. since they're far short of funds to hire enough qualified help to secure all the schools.

Now, LibreOffice goes head to head - ok, some VM scripting, macros, and other bizaree things that Office does may not work... but are you going to look me in the face and tell me that anyone under college is going to use that crap to write papers and homework? For that matter, who in college (except maybe business majors) will use it?

                      mark "and linux is a *lot* easier to manage than the arcanity of M$, and there's zero annual license fees"

...get back to you on that.

                mark "will join the American Society of Procratinators one of these days, if it's still around...."