Not necessarily. SUVs tend to be hatchbacks with very few trunk space. When you want to bring the kids bikes, the tent and all the camping stuff. Or in my case, I am Canadian, I do X-country skiing. There are no top carriers (Thule) that are long enough to hold my skis, let apart the baby's Chariot (equipped for X-Country skiing). I also had a 30years old house that sometimes needed repair or improvement. Hauling some 4x8 sheets of drywall, a hot water tank or some 12' 2x6 to build a pool deck. Any SUV that could do this?

I used to have a good old F-150 with the 6.5' bed when I needed it the most. Now being a single parent of 1 little girl and living in a condo, I am back to a Honda Civic that can carry my kid's stuff and mine. But when we were a family of 4 and owned a house? All reasonably-priced SUVs would have fallen short of expectations in cargo space, compared to my F-150.

So to answer this:

Anyone generalizing as you just did is close-minded. You think you know the needs of everyone by saying family+SUV=good, and family+truck=idiot? There is a good bunch of idiots in our society, and I would say they are equally distributed all around the place.

Pussified trucks? A 6.5' pussy is wayyyy too big for your 6.5" manhood.

Sexual parts sizes aside, here is the dictionary definition of a truck: "a large, heavy motor vehicle used for transporting goods, materials, or troops."

If what you need to transport is 4x8 sheets of plywood 40 times a year, a 6.5 foot will not do the trick. If you have to haul the family around while on vacation, or need to transport some stuff for home repair twice a year, an 8 footer is more of an embarassment. And it's hungry on gas. Hard to park.

There is no such thing as "a real truck". Every truck size has its purpose.

And if you need an 8' truck to prove that you're a real man, maybe you need to work on yourself a bit.

Depends whose ass you're talking about. My girlfriend's ass is a beauty. While this truck is a monstrosity. Please don't put all asses in the same basket.

Seriously, I can't say what makes me throw up the most. edge.sh? Or bash.exe?

Both of them make my eyes bleed.

I hope the "Linux Desktop" prophecy will not be caused by Microsoft. Only shit can come out of this for Linux admins / devs / users. Microsoft probably has enough cash to buy the entire Linux ecosystem and make it a subscription nightmare. No. Please just no.

How the hell is Google better than Facebook? Both are advertising companies promoting ads related to your online activities, on their platforms and off their platforms, by tracking you wherever you are. They both send ads and skew search results to promote their political agendas, as well as promoting products of the highest-bidding advertisers.

I don't see how one is better than the other.

Yep, being cleared of a massive fraud (Madoff style) for 6% of your gross annual income and no criminal record is not only "not bad", it's a gift.

On the reasonable side though, how much did this scheme got them? Did they "steal" money from people? I understand that they made false representation, but what's your prejudice? Lower res YouPorn / YouTube? Pictures loading slower on FB / Twitter / Snapchat?

Usually, the justice system considers the harm caused to give a sentence accordingly. In that case, it sounds reasonable. It is not a very harsh deterrent for the next time though.

Usual

My last iShit was an iPhone 4s. The last one that had the 30pin connector. I had bought plenty of docking stations and accessories for this plug, and then BAM. Throw it all to the landfill and buy new stuff if you want to continue using your iStuff.

Repeat after me: Apple makes money from planned obsolescence.

If you are using Firefox and want to make sure DNSoHTTPS is disables, let it know that it is YOUR choice to disable it:

- about:config
- Search for setting "network.trr.mode"
- Change value "0" for value "5"
- [...]
- Enjoy you freedom of choice!

Value 0 means it is off because no choice has been made (off by default), meaning that when it's rolled out, it could be change by an update or any "call home".

Value 5 means you CHOSE to disable it, so any subsequent update should keep it off, even if the installer or any "call home" is set to turn it on.

Is this the first quantum computer to successfully process calculation with qubits? I don't think so. DWave, IBM and others seem to have acheved this first. We remember the Wright Brothers because they were the first to build a plane and make it fly long enough to demonstrate the lift cause by the air pressure could maintain their device in the air, and after this demonstration, a whole new industry was born.

Google could say they were the first to make it fast and usable to some extent, but they're certainly not a comparison to the Wright brothers...

If a few people would have built the first ever quantum computing device in their own garage, I would agree the comparison. Not here. They're investing massive amounts of money and have teams of engineer working on it, so the comparison does not stand to me.

They could, however, compare to the first team that made the first manned space flight happen at NASA. But leave the Wright brothers alone until we have our Zephram Cochrane.

Discouragement rate for leaving their service would be, for example, charging double the data transfer rate for taking a copy of a VM outside of your account. Even then, moving 1TB out of your account would cost 180$ instead of 90$. Not exactly something I call "lock-in". And I have not heard anything about a higher rate for moving your data out over serving it to outside users.

Yes it would be frustrating, and you could moan all you want about it. But it would certainly be somewhere in the ToS, so it would be your job to read and understand it.

Oracle is also not the only cloud provider in the world. If their terms do not suit you, find another one.