This is no mystery. They don't want to spend money on infrastructure. My MIL in Albany NY had copper phone line drop all the time when it rained. Verizon would take 3 days to service each time. They finally gave her a cell spot type thing to plug her land line into, explaining that they were not going to replace copper when she could convert to VOIP over fiber in the future.

My OH neighborhood is 15 years old. ATT ran copper while Spectrum ran coax. ATT can't give away their slow DSL here, and they won't spend money to change anything out.

I sold all ATT stock many years ago as they are quickly becoming a footnote in ISP lore. Verizon an cable providers have usurped their business.

Let's not forget that the unions artificially boosted the wages, and that is one reason these jobs were sent to China. And don't blame the manufacturer, consumers are not paying 2x the cost for Made in the USA for goods that are good enough when made in China. America shops at Walmart, and guess where Walmart gets their goods?

I donâ(TM)t get the objection to adverts. And the idea that you are the product when there are ads and not when you pay is wrong. You are being tracked no matter what.

I donâ(TM)t care if NBC knows that I like these 10 programs and wants to recommend more. But I do hate paying for shows that are already offered OTA for free (with ads) . Now I can consume it all and only watch ads instead of ANOTHER monthly fee.

If I really want an ad free movie, that is available too, and I will pay. But I am not paying for 10 different streaming services.

i guess i can't edit my url? so this should make the hyperlink work

Jaguar Land Rover develops 'transparent' A-pillar and ghost car [w/video]

https://www.autoblog.com/2014/...

And this one from 2014

Jaguar Land Rover develops 'transparent' A-pillar and ghost car [w/video]

ttps://www.autoblog.com/2014/12/15/jaguar-land-rover-360-virtual-urban-windscreen-transparent-pillar-follow-me-ghost-car-navigation-systems-video-official/

With docker you can scale out and you take your docker containers (usually) to other sites much easier then you can transport that lamp stack running on an OS.

If you don't need these things then docker is probably overkill.

Most of these posts blame the government or corporate america, but the borrower is the only one at fault. The borrower signs the terms and has choices.

Working while taking less credits is an option. A less expensive school is a better option. How about 2 years at a community college? Get a degree that has actual jobs available. Archaeologist or marine biologist may sound cool, but the few job openings means your chances are low, so don't borrow a lot to get that degree.

The government or corp america never forced anyone to get a degree or borrow money. And there are good paying jobs if you don't have a degree, but not as many as there once were. Many tech sector jobs are starting to relax the degree requirements to address the lack of qualified candidates.

The people running away made bad choices and don't want to do what is right to correct the problem.

Make the file system read only and enforce it. Better yet, put all files on WORM media. Other then that, there is no way to stop an application with write access from modifying a file.

The OP fails to realize that encryption is no different then write. The OS can't tell if you are changing a word document to meaningless characters of junk or not, so how could it tell if files are being encrypted.

There are some EDR (endpoint detection and response) and similar Anti-malware apps that look for patterns of file access to alert to ransomware, but they will not stop the first attack.

The article points out "advantages" of linux over windows, but doesn't cover the reasons not to switch to Linux:

1. Compatibility - apps, documents, fonts, plugins, etc. The same reason some find it hard to move to mac or from mac to another OS. OS are different. I can't run apps made for windows (not talking about emulators). When there is an equivalent app, not all features and functions carry over. If I am used to windows, another OS can look strange and have a learning curve. SO at the end of the day, there is no compelling reason to make me switch in this area. Libre Office is nice, but even on windows is not the same as MS Office.

2. Cost - we have to see what happens, but Win 10 was free for most users, and MS keeps adding features and not charging. Much like Mac. So the upgrade cost may have gone away. Time will tell. How many years has Win 10 been doing feature upgrades for free now?

3. "More secure" - attacked less, is not more secure. Although it is targeted less at a consumer level, the number of Linux attacks and exploits is not anywhere close to zero. Although most users may not be running Apache, the libraries that make up much of linux are on desktops and servers and need to be patched just like windows needs patching. Safe browsing and download hygiene apply regardless of OS. Oh and many attacks are social engineering and there are plenty of remote control apps for linux.

4. User capabilities. Mom and Pop that get a PC with Windows, usually don't have the tech abilities to create a bootable installer. If a machine shipped with Linux someone would use it, but are they going to install Linux when Windows works? And again, why would they want to? Compelling reason to switch?

So maybe if you have win7, and your coming up on EOS, you have a reason. But if you still have win7 you are either waiting for a new PC, or you don't like change. If someone was switching to Linux, they would have done it already.

I have used Linux on desktop. I have used Mac as well, and own a mac. I prefer windows.

Is Slashdot so in need of stories that anything gets published? There are such things as dumb questions, no matter what the nice smiling teacher may have said.

Nothing illegal about watching and recording where someone goes. I can watch my neighbors house and make extensive notes about all that goes on. And yes, I can follow you around and document what you do. You may be able to convince a court of a restraining order if I push things to far, but surveillance is not illegal.

It is not illegal in person or on line.

This is really no different then when EMV rolled out elsewhere, except hackers have more access to the interconnectedness off things.

EMV in EU also rolled out with loose rules to start - merchants want cards to work - so fall back to mag stripe was allowed, and the bad guys figured out they could smash the chip on a stolen or cloned card. When fallback was removed, fraud went away.

The USA is also a different beast. Besides having to upgrade older infrastructure, the problem of customers with multiple cards having to remember multiple pins has to be solved. But keep in mind, if mag stripe fall back is removed, most of the fraud goes away. No one has yet to clone the chip, and if the EMV data is protected properly, there should not be enough information to use online (card not present).

PIN protects against card theft. Removing Mag stripe function protects against cloned cards - where most of the fraud is. It took EU time to get everything right, it will take USA time too.

If the Author has never had a request from a recruiter, then SURPRISE; their profile sucks.

Instead of blaming the tool, get someone to read your profile and help you fix it. And as others have said, don't accept every request. If I don't the person, or they have no connection of interest, i say no. Just because they know someone I know, doesn't mean I want to be connected to them. I have turned down a dozen in the last month because they were a connection of an old college friend - they have nothing to offer me other then that.

The other possibility besides a poor profile, is that this user has a good profile in a field that has no job openings - spinning wheel operator or typewriter repair maybe?

It sounds to me like your environment is the problem, not the meeting method.

If the calls are worthless then you have a culture at work that has decided that worthless is tolerated. If you are only a participant and the call is worthless, don't go. If someone tells you that you are needed, then get an agenda and find out why you are needed before accepting the call.

You are in charge of your day, so let others know if they are wasting your time. Don't blame the conference call as the culprit, it is the people and the culture.