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Comment Re:Reprehensible (Score 1) 55

I agree. There are jurisdictions that don't require the consent of everyone to record private conversations, but are none that don't require the consent of anyone.

Their defense, of course, would be "you gave consent in the click wrap TOS you didn't read," but such abusive terms have been declared unconscionable before.

All a pipe dream, though, regardless of who is in the White House or controls Congress.

Comment Re:Still not complete (Score 4, Insightful) 51

No that's not what is being said. People please.

Good start.

The comet theory never held up because that relies on there being another source of life out there.

But then you completely miss the point. This isn't about "life came from space," this is about "the building blocks of life came from space." There's a difference, whether you can understand it or not.

Comment Re:Rumors of my demise... (Score 1) 124

Apple has died before, to the point of having to let Microsoft bail them out. Most large companies go through up and down cycles. Sometimes, those cycles yo-yo wildly, even to the point of the down cycle killing the company for real.

Odds are, however, that regardless of how much damage this does, they'll bounce back again. And, eventually, take a dive again. Lather, rinse, repeat, ad nauseum.

Comment Not what I'd call in upgrade (Score 2) 68

We just migrated to a hosted server for our main point of sale/inventory system. Not because we wanted to, but because there was literally no other choice. The in-house server was end of life, and the vendor just refused to sell us a new one. There's nothing - we have looked - that can replace it, open source or otherwise, without extensive customization that would take several years and require a full time staff of programmers, plus the active cooperation of the national franchise that would not be forthcoming, at a cost of millions.

And it's not an upgrade. We've had more offline time in the last two weeks that we did in the last year with the in-house server, and there are some very important functions that are, at best, unstable and almost unusably slower. They can't even get the login screen to work right.

And it costs us about 50% more than the platinum support contract we had before.

That's not an upgrade, it's a clusterfuck.

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