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Comment Re:Pretty pedantic there + Docker is a container!! (Score 2) 125

Docker is a container, not a management platform

No. Docker is a set of tools for managing containers. It takes advantage of namespaces in the Linux Kernel to run the containers https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.docker.com%2Fget-st...

Microsoft has no virtualization capabilities

Microsoft offers it's own Type II Hypervisor called Hyper-V. It's both their on-premesis virtualization solution as well as the base of the technology running their Azure hosted/cloud virtualization options.

I am pretty sure our Exchange server is hosting in Azure.

Mine isn't. Neither is our Active Directory. They're both on premises. I won't go into the pros and cons of moving Exchange or AD to Azure here Can I ask where your Docker Containers are running? Are they running bare metal on-prem? Renting dedicated servers from a hosting provider? Considering you don't understand what a Hypervisor or a VM is I'll assume they're "In the cloud". I hate to break it to you, but that means they're just running as a VM on somebody else's Hypervisor. Either Hyper-V from Microsoft if they're in Azure or Xen if you're on Amazon. I'm glad you were able to move away from Microsoft and all of your workloads can be containerized with Docker on Linux. That sounds really cool. Please understand that not everyone works in an industry that abandoned Microsoft or has workloads that can be containerized.

Comment Re:Hunter's Biden's laptop (Score 1) 128

While the contents of the laptop were amusing, most were upset by the response to the disclosure of it's contents. It was labeled "Russian Disinformation" without any evidence by US intelligence agencies and news organizations that broke the story had their social media accounts locked until they complied and deleted the posts linking to their articles on the subject. All of this weeks before a presidential election involving one of the candidates children. Only last week did news agencies "Confirm" that the information on the laptop was authentic, despite pictures *of* hunter Biden smoking crack being publicly available for the better part of two years

Comment Signal has no understanding of their userbase (Score 4, Interesting) 54

The only way I've found to get less security minded friends and family to switch to secure messaging is because the transition is seamless with signal. For now SMS is not going away, Aunt Geraldine is not going to get her friends from her bridge club to switch over to Signal, so she's just going to use her SMS app to text both them AND me now. I also don't want to juggle multiple apps for 2FA codes and other automated SMS systems I'm not sure the people at Signal had any idea *why* their app became so popular. It's certainly not because the general public values or even understands E2E. It's because of the slow march of friends convincing friends and family to go through a smooth transition

Comment Re:Just curious....who intends to get this? (Score 1) 189

Out of pure curiosity what position are you in that you've caught so many strains of COVID? Most of my relatives and coworkers (we're all in-office and work with members of the public) have either not gotten it at all or only once. I've heard of people catching it multiple times over and over but haven't had any personal experience with it

Comment Re:Reminds me of the Terrorist's Manual (Score 1) 287

it is a useful tool to keep track of not only who owns what weapons

The US government does not keep track of who owns what weapons outside of arms subject to the NFA. There is no database anywhere of common arms ownership outside of the ones operated by a handful of states, which are largely inaccurate. All gun laws are infringements

Comment Re:Reminds me of the Terrorist's Manual (Score 1) 287

The issue comes in with taking a craft built firearm to a gunsmith. If you build a firearm yourself and don't serialize and mark it, then it can't be sold or transferred at all, even to a gunsmith for normal work. That being said I don't know anything about a manufactures license. AFIK you just need to serialize and mark the receiver with your name and address.

Comment Re:Reminds me of the Terrorist's Manual (Score 1) 287

I have no idea what you're talking about. The parent was talking about the conversation of "what is a gun" and what is subject to this law. I'm pointing out that what is and is not a firearm, rifle, pistol, shotgun, etc etc, is already clearly defined and codified in US law (subject to arbitrary interpretation by the ATF of course) I make no argument for or against that regulation, only that it exists and is defined. Please don't be retarded

Comment Re:Reminds me of the Terrorist's Manual (Score 1) 287

Arms like pistols, rifles, shotguns, short barreled rifles and shotguns, destructive devices, explosives, and *any other weapons* (AOW) are all clearly defined in current US law. Firearms and other arms that fall outside of those definitions are not subject to regulation, like smooth bore muskets and cap/ball revolvers

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