jamespo

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631.
by jamespo 9y ago
It would appear none have sufficient interested developers to work on an init replacement
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by jamespo 9y ago
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-38412816
633.
by jamespo 9y ago
Much like the US fines EU banks?
634.
by jamespo 9y ago
Do you have more details on where this is mandatory currently?
635.
by jamespo 9y ago
Interesting project, if I were to buy a license would it cover all my installs across OSes?
636.
by jamespo 9y ago
Because that's where the (easy) money is
637.
by jamespo 9y ago
Ignoring prices, what do you think about when a company uses a dominant market position in one area to establish one in another, eg Microsoft in 90s/early 00s?
638.
by jamespo 9y ago
OMG a multinational doesn't share my precise political bias
639.
by jamespo 9y ago
Where does that say they're removing them?
640.
by jamespo 9y ago
Please point us to these lots of cases
641.
by jamespo 9y ago
* cheap * capacity * convenient choose 2
642.
by jamespo 9y ago
It's running windows though
643.
by jamespo 9y ago
Your parents being willing to pay college fees vs giving you all the money to invest are very different things
644.
by jamespo 9y ago
What else do they have other than itunes (which only exists to sell iphones, ipads etc)?
645.
by jamespo 9y ago
This is very close to "4D chess" reasoning
646.
by jamespo 9y ago
Most suspicious to me is if I really wanted help, like this purports to, I'd be following up all the replies for more information avidly.
647.
by jamespo 9y ago
If they are clued up enough to require 2FA to send email remotely, they're clued up enough to keep logs.
648.
by jamespo 9y ago
Yup, doesn't want to give any more details in case the story gets unpicked
649.
by jamespo 9y ago
Edgar F. Codd just started spinning
650.
by jamespo 9y ago
Yes, there are workstation class laptops available for exactly that purpose. This isn't one of them.
651.
by jamespo 9y ago
No, most people turned it off because they didn't want updates interrupting them. You are vastly overestimating who cares about "MS malware".
652.
by jamespo 9y ago
Why all the pills in the stomach AND set her on fire?
653.
by jamespo 9y ago
This is partly why a lot of older IOS apps I bought (such as the excellent Mr Reader) have been abandoned by their developers I suspect, as even basic maintenance isn't worth the revenue stream. And these apps will soon be incompatible
654.
by jamespo 9y ago
If the threat was solely limited to an attack on the baseband that could be valid.
655.
by jamespo 10y ago
Your argument is just the fallacy of relative privation "why are you worrying about X when Y?" Different things concern different people.
656.
by jamespo 10y ago
I'm not interested in your appeal to authority, especially as it claims comparing systemd with init is pointless (why?) and contains massive flaws like "Proponents (of systemd) are usually part of the modern Desktop Linux bandwago
657.
by jamespo 10y ago
You know who wrote git, right?
658.
by jamespo 10y ago
Some of us don't think init is great either, a mess of shell scripts that individually reinvent the wheel
659.
by jamespo 10y ago
I fail to see how you have pulled Trump and Bush into this, are they both subscribers?
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by jamespo 10y ago
I agree, the cloud is not expensive. £30/month gets you a beast of a machine with OVH that's always online with masses of bandwidth. Connectivity issues from the client are the main consideration.

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