"Open Server" might be a great distributed idea. We need a piece of software that individuals and companies could host and run. This software would have a configurable list of open source projects the host company wishes to support. When the software is running it would join the distribution network for those listed projects. This would be like an Open CDN sort of thing. Lots of details would have to be worked out around security and validating downloaded files and stuff. But the idea sounds kind of cool.

Depends on which product you are talking about. I use VMWare Workstation all the time for software development. It's a very valuable product for me. ESXI and Docker are completely different beasts from one another. I can still see a lot of corporations using ESXI to host internal applications.

Use this!

The article makes an assumption the state of the microphone and the state of the LED are dependent. I wonder how true that is. Can the device be commanded to activate the microphone while leaving the red glow?

> Im surprised they did not just shut down the Satellites and convert everyone to streaming.

A lot of DirectTV customers don't have streaming available. They don't have access to a cable provider for internet. ( If they did they probably wouldn't be a DirectTV customer.) Their only internet options are probably cellular or some shaky wireless option that barely works. These customers are held to very low data caps that prevent any kind of streaming.

People easily forget just how many people in this country don't have access to true high speed unlimited internet.

They are. And they're asking Ukraine to start it.

Didn't they basically announce the end of DirecTV by saying they would launch no more satellites? That pretty much puts a limit on how long they can even provide DirecTV service, when the last satellite dies it's all over.

Amazon didn't destroy anything. They provided a service that people wanted: cheap stuff. People prefer cheap over an expensive brick & mortar store with really lousy customer service.

> And then, you'll only make $55k, if that!

There are people in the mid-west making way more than that.

2015 vehicle deaths: 35,092.

2015 gun deaths: 13,485 ( Not including suicides. )

Your data seems inaccurate.

Including suicides puts them just about event.

They really want you to automate this. From the web site:

Let’s Encrypt CA issues short lived certificates (90 days). Make sure you renew the certificates at least once in 3 months.

Wild Ass Guess.

It has never occurred to me that people use three fingers on a mouse. I'm using a Logitech M705 at the moment. If I put three fingers on this thing they just don't fit. The finger in the middle covers the scroll wheel and at least 1/3 of each of the other two buttons.

The side fingers naturally land on the side of the mouse on the seam between the mouse body and the buttons.

When holding this mouse normally with two fingers the scroll wheel disappears in my hand.

I haven't found anybody we makes mice big enough for my hands.

I suspect there are a lot of people who have the same issues.

Well, there are a lot of people that shouldn't be in the business.

I don't think you know what a "coding standard" is. It's not just formatting.