Guess you won't be taking that deal then....

He can lobby for laws, but he's not going to put that genie back in its bottle. Anyone in power to make a statement like that who doesn't understand that modern encryption works because of the math, not because the source code is a secret needs to sit the f* down and shut up.

If it's loading a whole VM, that's a no-go for me. Might as well just run my own VM with a distro and configuration of my choosing.

For being able to do linux command line stuff, I'm happy with cygwin. If I want to run linux, I run linux.

SARBOX makes executives personally responsible for the accuracy of the financial data they put out. This has made them get serious about the source of that financial data within their own company. Maybe a bill like this would help with privacy the same way.

You should ask for your money back.

Feel better?

If I had mod points, I'd mod you up. I also have a system that uses SMS text to send alert notifications to volunteer firefighters. If a carrier decides to block what I send, there is literally no point of contact to resolve the issue.

I really don't want to spend the money on a new firewall just to support web browsing.

FUSION: It's the energy of the future, now and forever!

They need to build it with carbon nanotubes to get me excited.

There is a cable provider and there is a dsl provider. No fiber is available. There are 5G wireless providers starting to penetrate the area, but where I am there is as yet no line of sight. LTE wireless is spotty right where I am. I've been paying as much for a slow DSL line as backup to the cable for my business needs and I need it so rarely that I'm ready to finally pull it. My need for backup for those rare times is finally lower, and LTE coverage is at least sufficient to meet that occasional need. HOWEVER: Until recently I would definitely have considered my area one of those where Fiber was deliberately delayed due to lack of competition.

My state did try to force Verizon to put fiber to every home. They said they won't permit any fiber with a commitment to doing the whole state in a certain time frame. Verizon promptly sold their telephony business in my state to a smaller provider and left. Now we have crappy land line service and still no fiber.

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<quote><p>This is Emirates Airlines we're talking about. The people who charge $15,000 a ticket and give you a bed seat and an in-flight shower.</p></quote>

<p>I'm glad Delta doesn't have in flight showers. I'm sure I'd be crammed next to some jackass taking a shower and there's no way I'm not getting sprayed in those cramped quarters.</p></quote>

If American Airlines had showers, they'd be a kitchen sink sprayer and a paper napkin, and you'd have to stay seat-belted in next to the others in your row while you used it. To turn it on, you'd have to first watch a five minute sales pitch for their credit card.

<quote>Right. I don't understand how gene editing works. I do understand how programming works, though. And I understand what happens when some jackass who doesn't understand about programming starts cutting and pasting code around and finds that he's occasionally somewhat successful at getting something to do sort of what he wants it to.</quote>

You've just described how we got Facebook

Is there suddenly a world wide shortage of human sperm? This seems the height of waste.

They were looking for rocks that could be a hazard to life on earth. Nothing to see here. Move along and quit being stupid.