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datatanon Early Linux filesystem reliability

There is no reason not to run ZFS on non-ECC memory, let alone it being "insane".

datatanon James Gosling, the ‘Father of Java,’ joins Amazon Web Services

The more I hear about Oracle the less respect I have for them. My company is already working hard at dropping all things Oracle. I really can't wait for the day when we can wash our hands of them completely. Its not that far off really.

datatanon Chelsea Manning released from prison

And you would be wrong.

datatanon Global ‘Wana’ Ransomware Outbreak Earned Perpetrators $26k So Far

Decentralization is the point of Bitcoin. It can still be taxed in any number of ways.

datatanon Basic Income in a Just Society

No that's just hyperbole without any basis in reality. Those poor and underprivileged can already find aid when/where needed. Poor people in the USA aren't even poor by world wide standards.

You do not have the right to rob Peter to pay Paul.

datatanon Tim Cook’s refusal to help FBI hack iPhone is validated by ‘WannaCry’ attack

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204034

You've been able to download free apps without a credit card since forever

datatanon Apple plans to spend $1B to support advanced manufacturing jobs in the U.S

Worse, they say this while giving them selves multi-million dollar salaries and stock bonuses worth billions. It's outrageous. We're told we're replacable, that theirs third worlders that can do what we do for less but somehow the executive is a unique snowflake worth billions of dollars.

I watch VP's get million dollar bonuses while laying off workers. I watch execs outsource whole departments, watch quality tank, and they get millions.

The center can not hold. It will come crashing down.

datatanon Wages rise on California farms, Americans still don’t want the job

> The article indicates a 15-year trend of rising wages, yet we don't see American farmhands flocking to CA, so it seems like a fair headline to me.

That's because you're biased. Its a small trend over a long period of time that doesn't outpace the cost of living. There is also a massive shortage of farmers thanks to big agriculture killing them all off.

Most farmers want to own the land they work. Good luck with that in CA

datatanon Wages rise on California farms, Americans still don’t want the job

You're linking to articles half a decade old. Have any new data, you since the economy picked up?

datatanon Wages rise on California farms, Americans still don’t want the job

Why is the first instinct of every Democrat/Liberal to have Government subsidize everything? If the wages and cost of living were there people would come. Solve the problem, don't subsidize it and create more problems. Absolutely insane.

datatanon Wages rise on California farms, Americans still don’t want the job

> Yes, but if they wanted the jobs, they'd come to CA for them.

CA is facing a mass exodus right now. Why on Earth would anyone willingly move there with costs being what they are?

I left 10 years ago and will never go back. I can earn just as much with a cost of living being half of that in any number of states.

> Most people in California—who are, after all, themsleves outside of Silicon Valley, which is a small piece of the state—are well aware of that.

I grew up there and no they aren't aware of it. SV isn't a small part of the state. Its the entire middle of it since hardly anyone who works there can live there. They have to commute for hours from all around.

The other half is in LA county with the same delusions. The populace out side of those areas is tiny in comparison.

datatanon Wages rise on California farms, Americans still don’t want the job

> Wages rise on California farms. Americans still don’t want the job

No. Californians don't want the jobs. Americans live in more than just CA, I know a lot of people in CA find this hard to believe but there is a whole world outside of Sillycon Valley.

datatanon Young men dropping out of the job market to spend time in an alternate reality

> Unemployment in the US is relatively low even on a long term basis.

Dear God save me from whatever unemployment you deem to be high. Over a third of the people in this country don't work and another third work part time.

Maybe you actually believe those numbers coming out of the gov on unemployment and don't pay attention to the people who have rolled off the unemployment benefits. I know people that have been looking for work for the better part of 5 years without luck.

Also, have to call bullshit on the "You have it easier than any generation in history" remark. This generation is the first generation since the inception of this country to not have it better than the previous one. Every person born today is born with upwards of 70k debt thanks to the drunken sailors in Congress. The bill will come due. It always does.

datatanon Young men dropping out of the job market to spend time in an alternate reality

Not sure how you come to that conclusion when the middle class is almost gone in this country.

datatanon Rand Paul: NSA Routinely Monitors Americans’ Communications Without Warrants

> Imagine if the US just bought all the foreign media companies it could and then controlled the news to protect national security. Would that be ethical or legal?

Interesting as that is exactly what China and Saudi Arabia are doing in the US.

datatanon Rand Paul: NSA Routinely Monitors Americans’ Communications Without Warrants

If you don't think intelligence agency's should be doing this then what exactly do you think they should be doing?

I'm always interested in what people think the intel agencies do or should be doing. Personally I agree with you, targeted intelligence is more valuable than blanket intelligence but today with "big data" this may be changing.

datatanon Rand Paul: NSA Routinely Monitors Americans’ Communications Without Warrants

Not as long as we have a second amendment it won't. Amazing the foresight the founders of this country had.

datatanon Rand Paul: NSA Routinely Monitors Americans’ Communications Without Warrants

He is against them being government backed monopolies. According to him, and I agree, we should be able to switch ISP's at will. If we do not want an ISP selling our data we should have the freedom to move to one that doesn't.

datatanon Petition for AMD to open-source the PSP (backdoor) in their chips

Better option, remove the PSP. It serves no function in todays world.

datatanon Rand Paul: NSA Routinely Monitors Americans’ Communications Without Warrants

And this right here is why reasonable debate has died in the world today.

Put your country before your party or you're damned to lose both.

datatanon Rand Paul: NSA Routinely Monitors Americans’ Communications Without Warrants

McCarthy didn't spy on anyone. He was a Senator not an intel agent. Additionally, McCarthy has been proven right. His estimate was that there were around 20 Soviet agents that had infiltrated the US government at the highest levels. Once the USSR fell and their documents became public it was proven they had well over 200. McCarthy was right but people still tarnish his name out of spite.

Hoover was an SOB far worse than McCarthy ever could have been but is still revered by many in the intel services. His name still adorns the FBI HQ building and other than accusations of cross dressing, no ones dug in to truly uncover the evil things that man did.

datatanon Mozilla Acquires Pocket

"You want them to remove one of the most useful feature of Firefox?"

Completely subjective. Also pointless as it could easily just be an addon. It's just bloat however and my own subjective POV is it's useless. I've never once used it, have no desire to use and don't even know anyone who uses it.

So yeah, there ya go

datatanon Mozilla Acquires Pocket

So much for my hopes of them removing it from Firefox. Uhg.

datatanon Why Ever Stop Playing Video Games

What an awful article. It's like they spent 5 pages just waiting for an opportunity to called Trump supporters "Trumpists" and label people they dislike. Sad they are so bitter and angry, totally destroys any rational point they may have been trying to make.

datatanon PGP needs to be retired in honor

Thats an impossible statement to prove. Signal is centralized with a concrete list of users. PGP is decentralized with no possible way of knowing how many use it or dont

datatanon PGP needs to be retired in honor

Protonmail uses PGP............

datatanon PGP needs to be retired in honor

"It is unquestionably a better encrypted messaging system than PGP." You're going to have to back that up. In no way is Signal more secure or private than PGP. Signal is simply easier to use for a very small use case, text messaging.

datatanon PGP needs to be retired in honor

You've intentionally reduced PGP to your narrow use case. PGP/GPG will also sign and not just encrypt. If you're going to debate the subject do so honestly.

datatanon PGP needs to be retired in honor

Signal is for text messaging and fails as an email replacement. It also does not work for signing code and it requires you give over your contacts list to a third party to work.

Signal is not fit for PGP's use case.