perhaps owners should start blacklisting credit cards used for this. They are under zero obligation to accept credit.

I think MD infected Boeing with Management Syndrome. You are 100% correct when you talk about the de-prioritization of Engineering Concerns at Boeing. All one has to do is look at the issues the company is having in QC. They are delivering aircraft to the US Military that are failing basic checks. They are full of manufacturing debris. The Pegasus delivery schedule has been delayed several times while Boeing works to get their issues under control. This is not a healthy company, and I would not be surprised to see the corporate structure fail, and it get rolled into General Dynamics or Lockheed Martin, or indeed even perhaps L3.

I have two HP Stream Minis. One upgraded fine to Windows 10, the other did not. The one that did, is now running a couple of services on my home network, and the other is now running linux and is a media machine. To be fair, the Streams came with a 32G SSD with a recovery partition, so only had about 24G of drive space, which windows 7 took up a big chunk, and once the downloads started, they choked up pretty fast. In retrospect, I'm surprised that one of them did upgrade properly.

Unless you have a bleeding edge laptop, then Linux will most likely work fine for you. I have an HP Elitebook which ran Windows 7 Pro, I dual booted it with Mint 17.1, It successfully upgraded the Windows to 10 without destroying the dual boot. I was impressed actually, although once I started looking at Windows 10 more closely, the less I liked it. So, when I upgraded to a SSD, Windows got dropped. Everything works out of the box.

The Start of the End of BB10 was the realization (of the Company) that their App store was never going to compete with Google's, or Apple's app stores.

I really liked my Q30. But in the end, I moved back to Android for a couple of Apps that I couldn't get to run. Now that the Priv is out, I'm really interested in returning to the BB fold.

If MS adopts android apps, it will be a short trip to giving up on Windows Mobile. Microsoft's experiment in trying to use their desktop dominance to muscle in on the mobile domain may ultimately be viewed as a major mistake. Their Surface Line of devices are really laptops just masquerading as tablets, and that they are so successful right now are lending credence to the thought that tablets have come as far as they can, and they can't replace a good general purpose computer completely.

I believe it.

We were looking at Sparc Server support. I couldn't find a power supply online, so ended up calling the Oracle Help line. Turns out, you couldn't just buy one. they would provide them as part of a service contract. I can't remember the exact price, but it was pretty much the same as the server itself.

We now have Solaris running on a HP Proliant Server, and it runs great, and easy to find spare parts.

With the current situation concerning Privacy Law, being that it is becoming quite complex, what we need is a "Data Extradition Treaty"

If your Courts want some Data which is related to an ongoing investigation, you trundle over the Country that is holding it, and ask for permission to get it.

As long as the local Court has some sort of leverage over a company, they can make that company do their dirty work. The second they lose that leverage, they will have to do it themselves. The thing that the US Gov has to remember is how this could backfire. ITAR guidlines were designed to prevent the spread of military technology, then it was used to give US firms an advantage in foreign sales. Well, that has backfired now, as ITAR un-encumbered weapon systems are growing in popularity. Recently, Canada, a notable ally of the US encouraged the use of non-US systems in order to reduce risk and delays. This DATA situation seems likely to cause similar issues.

In the end, Countries won't really care about complying with US law, especially if the DATA concerned is personal data belonging to that Country's citizens. I see lots of stove-pipe systems cropping up in order to remove the likelihood of having a data-leak to the US justice system.

My 2 cents

They care because their profits are tied into the upgrade cycle.

I can confirm, my work e-mail has been bursting with requests to renew email that I don't read anyways!

I work for the Canadian Government in IT, and hidden url's are stripped out of emails, so when these "partner" email request come in, asking for me to consent to receiving marketing, info and other types of email, I can't. Even if I wanted to. But it turns out that this is a great way to reset the emails I'm getting.

I love it, and not really sure why there is so much hate out there for the legislation. There was certainly a lot of hate for the SPAM people were getting. There are websites that I had to register onto just to see what they were selling . And the sponsored link that took me there, just told me that the item I was looking for was no longer for sale there! But I digress. I'm tired of companies sending me crap emails just because I had a tenuous relationship with them. I understand that this law may stick in the craw of some legitimate businesses, but hey, they can always ask me to opt in.

Now, if we can just get them to stop trying to get me to "like" them on Facebook.

Well stated, from Voltage's point of view

But of course, behaving like a "good-faith plaintiff" does not fit in with the revenue model. The whole original plan was to try and scare people into settling without going into a courtroom. Because, as soon as you get in the courtroom, there are Judges and sometimes Juries who you can never completely control. Costs also increase. So, you pick a test case you think you can win, prosecute the shit out of that one, even though you know you'll never get any real money, the judgement is the prise. Keep it really high, so that when you get your next batch of infringers you can threaten them with complete destruction. That way, more people will be inclined to settle without you every having to go back in the Courtroom again.

Of course, the Canadian rules have broken this model. Now, they have to pay for the list of names. They will have to pay to bring someone in to actually sue to make the point, and determine how the Canadian Courts are actually going to award damages. With a max infringement level of $5000, this is going to be close. Even if they are awarded some court costs, there will be few big payoff days. I suspect they are hoping that one of the secret treaties (TPP maybe) will force the Canadians to change the rules and come back to a more US style of play, and actions like this will be more placeholders to "prove" that litigation like this is truly important.

I like Slashdot. I have learned to live with its silly foibles, even when things don't work perfect they work well.

I suppose I am a bit of traditionalist. I hate change for changes sake, I don't really like it unless it is to make things better. Today I got a bit of a look at the beta site. Wow. It appears to embody all of the recent "flat" style that Apple, Microsoft and even Android is gravitating towards.

Why? I don't know. In MS Office, I hardly know what a button is anymore just be looking at it quickly. I have to decide on where to click, and often I have to hunt for the buttons. I don't really like it. It doesn't bring anything real to the table.

I'm not looking for karma, I don't really care, but it won't really matter because /. will change, and if I don't like the changes I'll just stop going there. It's a shame, because I really liked the discussions that took place. Sometimes, I even got the news before it appeared on other sites I frequent.

The bottom line for me is, if the conversation stops, and the futue looks like a whitewashed, pastel coloured world I won't bother. It's not worth it to get upset, I'll just look for something else to pass my time.

The site belongs to Dice. They can do what they will with it. If they screw it up, well, not many of us from the looks of it will be back to say "I told you so"

That's it. My 2 cents. Good luck Slashdot, I'll miss you for a while,

Just ask Martha Stewart.

Former Naval Officer here,

The Officer of the Watch (or Officer of the Deck for the USN) must indeed know their rules of the road, even when manuevering around other warships!

They are the bread and butter of the Seaman Officer.

I don't think so.

Microsoft, ultimately wanted to duplicate Apple's App Store Environment. They were hoping the lower price point would bring in the users, which would spur development of the Applications for it, which would of course induce more to join the ecosystem. Once Microsoft realized the value of the entire system, they were willing to try and duplicate it.

Of course, the hardware was there, but the Apps and the OS itself fell short, and they were not able to complete the task at hand. In order for them to have a chance at success here, they need more time. Time that just may not be available.

Hammer, meet Nail!

This is the issue exactly! Apple is not the only company that likes to hold information closely. I once had an ISP that would pretend that they did not have outages, and liked to blame their customers. I spent several hours trying to debug my girlfriend's network connection only to find out that they had a 6 hour outage that they only admitted to after the fact.