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Comment Original Article was pretty short (Score 4, Insightful) 320

Other than it being announced after the Election, there doesn't seem to be anything political in the announcement.

Sales are down on vehicles made at those two plant and they are cutting the Third Shift at both plants.
Nothing about moving production elsewhere or even discontinuing the two other shifts at both plants.

The added on Anonymously section to the /. article is where the politics are injected with a reference to Trump and his proposed tariffs on products made outside of the US by US mgs.. which this story is not about.

Comment Re:I don't hate on systemd but this is really bad (Score 1) 508

Most of my linux servers don't have users on them so no big deal. I'll just make note not to do what the causes the bug which I don't normally do anyway until it is patched.

Compared to the Solaris telnet bug years ago which gave anyone using it without an account remotely instant root access. That was a big deal.

This is just a bug that needs to be patched like how many other bugs that come out on a regular basis that you can pretty much only do if you are already on the box..

Comment Imagine Grocery Shopping (Score 1) 120

I get these all the time and I give them bad reviews every time.

Imagine going to the grocery store and buying a weeks worth of groceries and after a couple days vendors and mfg's whom you never had any contact with for the groceries you just bought start sending you email to see how the product was, if it worked and to give the (always) a 5 star rating.

I get enough email as it is, I don't need to be spammed by the companies of the products I buy.

If a product stands out, I normally leave a product review, if it is something cheap and common many times not. I give more positive reviews than negative ones since if there is something wrong with the product I will have already contact the "vendor" or Amazon about it anyway.

Comment Like the CNN model (Score 3, Insightful) 87

Everything is BREAKING NEWS even if it happened yesterday or the day before. Reporting on incidents before there are any real known facts, having EXPERTS come on and speculate on what MIGHT have happened or not without anything to really base an opinion on yet.

Not really news... entertainment for many, boring and shut off for me.

Comment Who uses the same userid and password now days? (Score 1) 34

Blame to the users who use the same account information for multiple systems and forums now days. Users have no real control of the systems they have to log into, but they don't have to be easy targets by using the same passwords and accounts on everything they use. There is no excuse to let yourself be a victim of credential loss because some stupid system admin doesn't fix security issues on their sites.

Comment Re:That far? (Score 1) 77

from the article,

The new view was obtained on July 10, 2016, at 10:30 a.m. PDT (1:30 p.m. EDT, 5:30 UTC), when the spacecraft was 2.7 million miles (4.3 million kilometers) from Jupiter on the outbound leg of its initial 53.5-day capture orbit. The color image shows atmospheric features on Jupiter, including the famous Great Red Spot, and three of the massive planet's four largest moons -- Io, Europa and Ganymede, from left to right in the image.

"JunoCam will continue to take images as we go around in this first orbit," said Candy Hansen, Juno co-investigator from the Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, Arizona. "The first high-resolution images of the planet will be taken on August 27 when Juno makes its next close pass to Jupiter."

Comment Re:Here is how to hold Microsoft accountable (Score 1) 312

- Back up your data files
- Wipe that abusive shit operating system off your machine
- Install Linux.

Don't look back.

Fantasy land...

You now can then stare at the computer and realize that none of the applications and tools use you are on your now almost completely useless workstation....

Your solution is simplistic and really not very realistic for most people even those with good technical knowlege.

A workstation is more than the OS that is loaded on it. Just replace Windows with Linux and you have a box that pretty much doesn't do anything, Just like if you loaded Windows on a new workstation.

It is the applications that you use on the OS where most of what you do takes place.

What many people find is that can't find replacements for the applications they use daily or only find limited numbers of apps which work completely different, don't offer the same options or features (even if it is a Linux version of the same application). Even after a long time of searching and trying various applications you are still nowhere close to where you were before you made that jump. And you have eaten up all that spare time you never had in the first place.

You use the right tool for the job. I have a primary workstation with Win7, it has hundreds of applications I use daily for my own business, personal use, and interacting with others. It is backed up via 3 different backup solutions to ensure I don't lose my info and is the central location for most of my info.

If you look at my servers, you won't find a winbox among them. All of them are either Linux (debian), AIX a smattering of Solaris and I still have some FreeBSD boxes for specific tasks. I don't use them for a workstation, most of them are non-gui based setup, command line.

Right tools for the right jobs.

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