For me it's stupid. We have North America, South America, Central America, United States of America, and America encompassing ALL. So anyone from any country within the Americas is an American just like Asians are from Asia and Europeans are from Europe. The notion that only people from the United States are Americans is just childish.

So the Gulf of America and Lake America name changes are ego trips for small minded people. If you think otherwise please tell me what you call someone originating from the American continent?

Is that not what nature does with offspring?

First - listings are prepaid so when there are issues you need to run after someone to get a refund.

Second - When something goes wrong, it's an uphill battle to make a claim. If the place is not as advertised or in an unacceptable condition you are left on your own to find a solution.

Third - Most often they want hotel rates without providing the services. Most often now I find better rates at full service hotels than these booking services, it just takes more time to find and book.

It might seem less expensive but that one time you find yourself with no place to stay in some unfamiliar place with no help from AirBnB then you will understand that it's not a hotel replacement and that all the saving you thought you had were really never there.

Or at least give us a simple way to change the look without having to play is CSS. Now that would be news.

Normally I don't care much about about the UI color choices but that purple was anything but calming.

I don't see how it can be done secretly with DNSSEC either. A trace will be left behind no matter what. This is not to say that either method is foolproof but when laws are interpreted and major news outlets are scared of their own government what makes you think that a CT log will be effective?

DNS registrar? I don't follow. Do you have a registrar for your DNS provider or are you talking about your Domain Name registrar?

In either case the entity that has control of a domain can issue certificates for the Domain. Meaning your domain registrar can issue certificates with every cert provider if they are evil. Doesn't make a difference what/who the registrar is, you or central.

You missed his whole point. You don't need third party software to administer an unlimited number of Linux boxes, you can script it with built in tools that can connect and manage the box. For Windows admins who want to manage Linux there is also GUI tools.

I'm not even going to mention that you can migrate the OS and all the installed software onto newer hardware remotely and have it run for 30 years by multiple migrations and regular software upgrades.

Windows is PITA to manage but I guess it's what you are used to.

You are right in your statement but you don't manage 1,500 Linux/Unix stations like Windows that's why it was so expensive. There are tools for free to even manage a greater number of stations.

When you lock yourself in a proprietary system and tools then you are right that they don't work on other systems. It's not Linux that is restricting your use.

My kids grew up using systems no employer used. They grew up computer literate and today they have no issues using any computer even the ones employers use.

My math may be wrong but that would be 2 out of every thousand nt five thousand.

In the last 40 years, not once has the OS given me a reason to suspect they didn't have my best interest in mind. Never have they inserted advertising or pushed unwanted features. Never have they changed my configuration. I have no concern that they will invade my privacy since I choose what is running and what is submitted. They do not harvest my private information and I do not need an account to have access to the code which is available in full.

I do not need to look at every diff of every update because not once have they ever done anything to warrant such behaviour. Every time I checked, which is regularly, it never differs. And YES, I do recompile everything myself before pushing it out. You make it sound as if it's a difficult task.

No. Nothing is automatically applied.

The reason MS can get away with this is because people have locked themselves in a proprietary system which they refuse to migrate from.

Change your attitude. Demand open standards. You will be surprised how stable computing can become.

You make it sound as if MS and the open source community work in the same way. In the last 40 years I have never experienced a open source OS like Linux or FreeBSD install software that I didn't request. If they had, all the tools to suppress/remove it are available.

It guess then this would surprise you that many audit the code or packages that they install. I will guarantee you that the packages installed on my servers are all approved by me. But that's me and I would say diligent sysadmins.

Really? Where do you live?

What's new? The next new tariff will be on every nation that breaths because they are consuming Trump's air.

How do you make America ugly? You elect Trump.

I come to realize that humans stumble forward by trial and error. The thing is, it takes multiple errors and we learn for a while then we repeat the same errors from the past.

We learnt nothing from smoking, drinking and porn. We have to once again repeat the error with social networks.

The answer is clear but you get blasted for mentioning it. So I won't.