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Comment Re:Sounds good to me (Score 1) 68

Short version: The problem is the percentage of assholes where you live.

If you're in here ranting about scooters or cars then you live in a high-asshole-density area and it includes you.

I mean...no?
I don't ride the scooters because they're way too fast for narrow-ass sidewalks and no good place to park them. As far as "high-asshole-density area", welcome to America.

Comment Alternate headline and article... (Score 1) 23

Everybody who didn't pay for a Microsoft email account had the entire contents of their mailbox at risk for the past 6 months...

"...the issue is much worse than previously reported, with the hackers able to access email content from a large number of Outlook, MSN, and Hotmail email accounts, according to a source who witnessed the attack in action and described it before Microsoft’s statement, as well as screenshots provided to Motherboard. Microsoft confirmed to Motherboard that hackers gained access to the content of some customers’ emails."

https://motherboard.vice.com/e...

Comment Re:Dietary Studies are NOT Advice!!! (Score 1) 286

My first thought when I read the headline was "yeah, right". I checked the source link, saw it was cnn, then read the rest of the summary to see how many holes I could find. I'm sure the actual paper is fine, and they seem to have a decent sample size and timeframe, but the summary leaves out a lot of details that are linkely in there somewhere and substantially alter the final conclusions.

Comment Re:Well at least we'll still have Cent (Score 1) 398

The RHEL/CentOS relationship is not adversarial, and the impact of CentOS on RHEL sales is likely overall or wash or maybe a net positive. It's the "first one is free" mindset. You get people using CentOS for free, so the skillset and familiarity is there for RHEL. If CentOS wasn't there, then a company that would have run it would be saying to itself "well, I guess we'll just pay for RHEL licensing", they would either use another free distro or just use Windows, which is likely cheaper anyways.

Companies that use RHEL will also factor in CentOS to the overall environment cost. A full complement of Dev/Testing/UAT/Prod with RHEL licensing is more expensive than the same deployment with Windows. Use CentOS for all or even a portion of those outside of production and RHEL becomes more cost effective.

Comment Re:Please explain cryptocurrency (Score 1) 141

Let's say I start a project. I can easily put a Dogecoin or any other crypto-currency wallet address on the website so people can make donations.

There wouldn't be a PayPal blocking the withdrawal of funds because of "reason X", no credit card company taking their cut and no bank freezing my account.

At least until you try converting your cryptocurrency into govt money and the exchange is "down for maintenance". The exchanges (well, *somebody*) also take a cut when you make a transfer, it's just not of the magnitude that credit card companies do.

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