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by _pi 17y ago
How legal is it for Amazon or Airlines to give out this information? How legal is it for schools/companies/etc to give out information about contacts to the Police? Why is it illegal to give out the record but legal to say that there was ac
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by _pi 17y ago
It certainly does both, but doesn't work as well enough as it should. Some of the corruption and image problems I've had on VNC also are on RDP.
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by _pi 17y ago
"We teach you how to learn" was repeated over and over again in my engineering department at my university. I always thought it was an excuse and justification that allowed them to save face and make it ok that what was being taught was goi
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by _pi 17y ago
Learning is a job, if it wasn't so damn hard and stressful everyone would be a quantum physicist. Teenage kids need to accept the realities of life.
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by _pi 17y ago
Apple also overhauled most of the *NIX kernel and made proprietary graphical tools and closed off the supported hardware. All of which contribute to the ease of use and keep the solidity.
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by _pi 17y ago
>It could also allow for *nix users to have something like RDP, which is one of the _very_ few things I actually admire about windows. I HATE RDP. X.org was created to be net capable, you can do full desktop and window forwarding, we do
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by _pi 17y ago
Then you install packages the wrong way. IE, yum install mysql* ruby* gem* will get you everything > And compiling your own is trivial in Arch, a ~10-line description file vs the nightmare that is rpmbuild. Now you're just trolling.
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by _pi 17y ago
>I can't believe that you've actually used Arch. I had one server here that hadn't been updated in over a year, and `pacman -Syu` worked perfectly, no breakage at all. Desktop packages are way more finicky, obviously you didn't use it w
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by _pi 17y ago
Having been there and back again I laugh at the elitism on this page now. "Arch doesn't offer such a facility as it goes against TheArchWay. SUSE, therefore, is widely regarded as more appropriate for less-experienced users, or those who wa
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by _pi 17y ago
They are politicians, nonanswers are part of the game.
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by _pi 17y ago
Yeah except that's annoying to your actual users who were drawn to the basic service in the first place.
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by _pi 17y ago
Facebook Lite: What Facebook actually was 4-5 years ago.
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by _pi 17y ago
I'd argue that the bulk of data which is valuable is on the enterprise. However you do have a point.
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by _pi 17y ago
This is what MS has been doing for years, no one uses MS products for a stable quickly recoverable environment. Not Google, GE, or any other big company. MS thrives on small to medium businesses because of it's dominance in the market, and
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by _pi 17y ago
Most diffs do that. The Diff that ships with gvim on Windows has this option on by default and I couldn't find where to turn it off because it was severely screwing up what I was diffing.
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by _pi 17y ago
Well said, however no government is perfect. That being said.... The US has incredibly powerful teachers unions as well. The teacher's union is so powerful it's still technically on the Homeland Security list of terrorist organizations. Yet
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by _pi 17y ago
Depends what you'd call "hooks". In terms of the Windows API there are some really cool really useful dynamic features in the toolkit, but they're obviously borderline virus/malware type functions. (IE read the text of the entire window if
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by _pi 17y ago
If anything has a complete lack of drivers, it's OS X or default rolled Windows. Linux supports more drivers in terms of legacy and current hardware out of the box, unlike Vista and XP which culled legacy hardware support, and don't have as
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by _pi 17y ago
>Apple has enjoyed the fact less companies target OSX and, assuming the same competent to incompetent developer ratio for both platforms (something risky in itself, because the barriers of entry for Windows are much lower), it would be
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by _pi 17y ago
Thank you Microsoft.
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by _pi 17y ago
I think he was talking more about hardware.
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by _pi 17y ago
Hurts sales. Intel is actually at bit of a slump now because people aren't upgrading hardware like they used to.
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by _pi 17y ago
"wielded the patent and lobbying swords against its enemies" What about the cease and dissist letters and attempted suit of people who named their products closely to Apples? Remember the iPod fiasco where they tried to use that sword and t
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by _pi 17y ago
Hmm, that's weird, I get much higher speeds in vsftp what protocol and settings are you using?
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by _pi 17y ago
You have no idea, I recently got into a car accident (look at my history for the story of that). And for all of our "socialist policies" in the US that republicans owuld want you to believe, we're grossly libertarian. Long story short: Acc
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by _pi 17y ago
Not exactly, there's private healthcare in Canada, and in France, but the government provides free Healthcare. So they don't hold a monopoly unless it's legally enforced.
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by _pi 17y ago
Akamai's services are almost too tightly integrate-able with sharepoint. Not only that I wouldn't call the support premier ;-)
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by _pi 17y ago
Austria for example, and Germany. They have social services that are built in and aren't nearly as bloated as the US government. However I don't agree with that analogy in this day and age where countries offer services countries should be
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by _pi 17y ago
Very weird support call. I finally said listen I think it's a problem with Sharepoint, and they forwarded me to Akamai, however they answered the phone as MS, but the CallerID showed Akamai Technologies. If you've ever dealed with MS Busine
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by _pi 17y ago
Except no one knows how to rip and replace in this case. There are governments out there that are less complicated but offer more to their constituents than the US government does. And no one in the US government wants to give up power or f

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