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Comment Re:STOP KILLING OPERATING SYSTEMS (Score 0) 121

Win10 is a solid 10 years old.
Same as an Ubuntu LTS with a support subscription.

Honestly this is fair.

Operating system preservation is a dead argument. They aren't coming to your house and disabling it. It just probably shouldn't touch the internet anymore. You can still run it forever, you just can't on infinity manufacturer warranty support.

Comment Mistakes were made (Score 4, Insightful) 58

I am fully aware of the limitations that made node.js seem like a good idea.

I will get down voted hard, but the problems occured when somebody decided that they wanted to run javascript for a core piece of software. The fact other people piled onto it just compounded the problem.

If you need a thing - you write the software for it. Javascript is probably 30 years old now, but it is still a bad decision.

It is exactly equal to all things container. Sure the idea of a discrete blob that isolates a thing is great...but this is not how anybody is using it. The number of nooblets building environments with hundreds of containers orchestrated to do a certain task is startling. Nooblets that don't have any idea how to actually set up or run a server, multiplying bad practices by the hundreds.

Comment It isn't a harvest (Score 1) 10

It isn't a harvest that you have to wait for farmers. Other organizations have acted a little quicker.
Curious why they took longer.
Sure, Google was faster to report. But companies like the middle eastern branch of Coca-Cola and Chanel don't exactly strike me as quick business or cyber response teams.

Comment Least effort (Score 1) 30

I feel like they need to at least put forth the effort to restore its original blue/silver. White is pretty awful. Removing the white paint on an aluminum hull probably won't be easy, but any collector willing to shell out for it is probably going to be more interested if the thing at least superficially looks right.

Comment They still don't seem to get it (Score 1) 80

They're losing customers due to pricing and data caps.
Problem: They're losing customers
Contributing factor to problem: Pricing & Data Caps

Solution: Fix prices and remove data caps.

EXCEPT THAT THEY DOING IT FOR NEW CUSTOMERS ONLY
Do you want to get on the phone with one of the worst customer service companies on the planet to 'negotiate' the new deal .... or do you want to just say cancel after listening to stupid songs and repeating yourself 12 times talking to a moron? I bet 75% of the people that would be interested in the new deal will end up frustrated and just cancel.

Because they don't get it. You apply the fix action to the problem. You don't sell the fix to future problems.

Comment Hey Report Writers!! (Score 4, Insightful) 41

Report Writers, Slashdot editors, and all you other nice people,

With stories like these, that specifically include broad ranging attacks with IOT and compromised devices in a bot net, please clearly mark the dates and times. I see a single cloudflare visual that shows 7.5Tb/s starting at 21:55:36 and going until 21:56:20. One could assume it is GMT, but it isn't listed for sure. One could also guess at the day, but it isn't clearly listed with the data.

If I knew which day to look at, and for sure what time frame, I could take a peek and make sure that I don't have some otherwise unidentified problem on my end. I'm moderately positive I am not involved, but if I am serving to give bad actors an extra IP to work from, I'd like to know.

These are shitty marketing fluff pieces. Oh look at how cool we are we detected it, we kept our client up, etc.
Alternatively these end up being philosophical shit pieces about ooooh look what could happen, look how far we've come.

No. I want a simple day and time. I want to know if the equipment in my enclave is involved. Start your goddamn reporting with that. Old newspaper style - yankees win 10-3 on friday night.
Not "oh you'll never believe what happened ...."

Comment They're plenty motivated (Score 5, Insightful) 132

Every single sports fan would purchase normal legal streaming if it wasn't such an unholy pain in the ass or wildly overpriced.

I'm a very simple example. I want to watch the NFL Vikings game in america. I'm not in the 'home zone' because I'm not a damned pleb that can't leave their home town. It isn't on free broadcast tv. Spending over $600 for approximately 9 games that I'll end up watching? Naw...I can find better things to do with my money.

You give me a simple option for $20 to watch the single game I want to watch? Sure. I'll probably do that every single time.

Comment Whack (Score 1) 166

I'm curious if the politicians that want to pass this have ever watched a french film themselves. Pretty positive every time I (english speaker) watch a foreign film with subtitles, I spend the next several months getting things suggested to me like "Korean Dark Romance Violent Revenge Films".
I've discovered some quite excellent items over the years ... never based on "french" or "german" or "russian" .... there is more to categorize than that...and I'm betting the politicians have watched nothing but american english films so that is all the algorithms are feeding them.

FYSA -
T-34 - fantastic WWII Russian perspective tank film; watched at least 3 times
Fighter - giggly Indian version of top gun
Parasite - korean?? definitely watchable
Catalan?? - Spain made me giggle but miss enough I had to watch it twice

Comment Old habbits (Score 2) 37

It really was starting to look a little better, but here comes the app-for-that idea-fairy that needs a Kasdf application developed because it either:
1) Wasn't made by us
2) Doesn't have a big enough K

It really is a good idea. Just wtf with the Ks.
And the article reads about GNOME and using boxes to spin up VMs....
No. Not everybody does that. There are already existing programs for that, and they work just fine. Stop with the ecosystem creating bullshit - this should always be a cross platform function not tied to your desktop environment decisions.

Comment Re:Lawyers Win (Score 1) 63

Falcon is no mere 2000s style antivirus. I wish it were that easy. Each of these massive clusterfuck IDPS/SIEM/EDR systems that use the word cloud in their marketing probably do reach criminal negligence level ... but nobody can prove that in court. The cure really does seem worse than the illness sometimes. The closer you look, the worse it becomes.

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