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Comment Re:Well... Wouldn't You? (Score 1) 16

I feel really awkward, seemingly defending Meta. But, wouldn't you refuse to run ads that targeted you for lawsuits, maligned your business, and threatened your existence?

Ideally, ad platforms wouldn't exist, because the whole point of them is to lie to people so they make shitty decisions. But barring that, they shouldn't be allowed to refuse to serve ads related to malfeasance similar to that of which they have been found accountable in court.

Comment Re:Feminism - it's about getting even, never equal (Score 1) 133

Genetic Men cannot have children and are basically slaves in this society

We are all slaves or potential slaves in this society. Don't be such a snowflake.

When a man is sent to war

When was the last time we had a draft?

If the world was actually a Patriarchy (which is also designed to protect women) then Marriage would be called Patrimony and the deaths of hundreds of thousands babies through abortion would not occur.

Oh fuck, you're one of those. Never mind, there's no having a rational conversation with you.

Comment Re:Temporary Decrease or Permanent Decrease? (Score 1) 133

Younger generic material is superior. Period. It's true of men and it's true of women. There are also additional complications related to women having children at older ages which are not genetic. It doesn't matter how anyone feels about it, it's a highly studied phenomenon.

If people are having children at later ages that's not a good thing.

Comment Re:not quite (Score 1) 36

Everything VMWare offered is and was glue and automation over the fundamentals underpinnings that now available to anyone freely in the Linux Kernel + qemu project; or some other places.

As with most enterprise software technologies the value was not actually fundamental bits but that all that glue and management was there so that you:

1) Do whatever you need to do in a supported way
1a) for CYA
1b) for actual technical assistance when needed
1c) to appease audit / risk management / insurance people

2) Do it in way that is aligned with however a lot of other organizations are doing it, so you can hire someone to replace your sysadmin if he decides to have a second career in forestry next Tuesday.

Pretending there is no value there is just weird, there is obviously value there, fact is a lot of places were using VMWare and doing new deployments because they saw that value. Now maybe roll your replacement for whatever it is in vshphere you need that proxmox does not do, does make sense after Broadcom's extractive price hikes. That does not mean the VMWare product suite is worthless or that is offers nothing of value over the alternatives, just that it isn't worth (to a lot of clients) Broadcom's new asking price.

It is also true the Virtualization space has been comoditized, there may not be a business in maintaining an enterprise class commercial software suite, and Broadcom's strategy of extracting the most revenue they can from a small group of customers who can't or won't transition off until they do eventually sunset the project is the right one. People like to moralize about this stuff but at the end of the day it is just business, and long revenue extraction has been part of the commercial software industry nearly as long as there has been a commercial software industry.

Comment Re:It might be more than one person (Score 1) 84

it isnt a trope it is a witticism.

Mark Twain was joking when he wrote it, but like all observational humor it is funny because there is a grain of truth to it. It isn't like a law of physics or something where a single counter example falsifies it, as long as it true often enough to broadly reflect the reality we experience it is good enough.

No it isn't real "evidence" that the author of BitCoin is a single persons but it is a valid counter point to, we can't find a single BitCoin author so maybe it was really a team. Which is a fact free hypothesis. It is simply the assertion that the author of BitCoin remains a secret, one thing we know about secret keeping is that the fewer people with knowledge of a secret is the more likely it is to stay a secret, therefore in absence of additional BitCoin author specific observations the mere fact we don't know who was behind it suggests it was either a very small well compartmentalized group or one person.

Comment Re:It might be more than one person (Score 1) 84

Two can keep a secret if one of them is dead..

I don't think it is a team. That would be even more people with 130 some odd billion reasons to show their cards.

I don't even think one of there letters could sit on something like this effectively. Hell even the airman rescue mission leaked, and there was little or no financial incentive to leak that.

Comment Re:Microsoft issues the Linux keys too (Score 1) 98

I am not the one here that doesn't know what I am talking about.

Availability is a leg of the CIA triangle bro.. If the authorized user CANT get access and its not fixable. That is a security failure, and likely as serious as a total confidentiality failure.

You getting root does not make you the evil made, you getting root means you SE'd the owner into running something, found a nice heap spray in the browser followed by a local privesc etc. Realistically these are all going to be drive-bys of some kind, where the victim stumbles onto your watering hole, runs whatever code you the attacker react when the listener calls home. Go in plunder and leave if you identify the box as being someones home PC. You're not going worry about persistence or dwell time..

Comment Re:Diddums huwt youw tendew widdle utiwity fwuncti (Score 1) 25

I wonder. Certainly in suburbia yes. Cities though.

People have to be able to park, vehicles have to be able to get by in the opposite lane if you cone off an area being patched. I am not sure you can necessarily fix every hole in a give couple blocks at the same time without creating a significant traffic problem.

Comment Re:How did they get initial access to the routers? (Score 1) 70

It's not hard to allow only traffic related to an outgoing connection. Are you asking because you don't know how to do it? Not that I'm supporting the GP's assertion here, that's not what I want from my ISP, but it's not even slightly difficult to do what they said you should do without interfering with establishing and maintaining outgoing sessions.

Comment Re:OpenWRT (Score 1) 70

I watched Jayz video on this subject and apparently "manufacturers" (sellers) of foreign-made routers will be able to request an exception... from the Department of War and the DHS. So this is really just a solicitation for more bribes/the opportunity to pick the winners and losers like Republicans always say the government shouldn't.

Comment Re:Two screens? (Score 1) 53

I wonder if having two screens (which would show two different apps) wouldn't be better.

It would arguably be a better solution technically, but I suspect that most people want to use one app at a bigger size than two apps at once. And then you've either got content spread over two screens with stuff in the middle, or the app has to be designed around the screen layout. And that either won't be done or will be done poorly in the majority of cases.

Comment Re:Sometimes I hate the direction of tech (Score 1) 53

For me a foldable phone was the Motorola razor, the one with physical buttons. And in my opinion it was a great phone.

Yep. If it supported modern standards I'd still be using mine, and then hotspotting for a device with more screen when I needed that. Carrying two devices is nonoptimal, but so is holding a brick up to my ear, and fixing that with a headset would ALSO require carrying two devices.

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