They cut a cable in the Baltic last Christmas. Possibly more recently than that.

Going from "attack" to "on a parallel with Russia's failed invasion of Ukraine" is quite a magnificent example of moving the goal posts, by the way.

Up until this moment, George Lucas was the only one who thought the revamped movies were an improvement. But now there's two of you :)

The senior execs who are calling the shots now were working for Microsoft back then. That means that those people are OK with working for a company that behaves like that.

I can't trust such people, it's really that simple.

In DC the corresponding number is 63, in Atlanta it's 70 and in LA it's 102. LA tops the list world wide, btw.

This information is two clicks away from the summary: http://inrix.com/scorecard/

That wasn't so hard, was it?

You are quite right, of course. I apparently had a stroke of bad luck while I was trying to think :) With ecryptfs, you could actually set it up such that it's the encrypted files that are seen by Dropbox - and incidentally, that setup is still supported by Dropbox, if the encrypted files are on a regular ext2 filesystem. The configuration that they have dropped support for is the one where they see your unencrypted data on ecrypts (yes, and a whole slew of other filesystems, of course).
My apologies for the hasty remark, and thank you for your correction.

Because the copy is encrypted? That was sort of the whole point.

I asked this elsewhere, and I ask this again. The people who run Microsoft now (at least the CEO) were working for Microsoft back in the nineties. So, apparently they thought it was an OK company to work for while they were doing all these shady things. Why should we start trusting people who obviously thought Microsoft's behavior back in the nineties was morally acceptable?

Or... we simply don't let some assholes make any two letter acronym unusable for the rest of eternity. There's only 676 permutations of two letters, and there's a lot more assholes than that.

Two completely unrelated things can have the same name.

Yes, all those millennia of purchases on the net...

I guess he got the address around the time you were born. Those of us who were on the internet when he got the address can tell you that no, there was no "standard" (which it's not) of putting noreply in the local part of the address to indicate that replies were not wanted. People back then mostly adhered to proper standards, not bogus customs invented when marketdroids discovered the net. It was, and should still be, a perfectly good address.

OK, so you're implying that you're already using Debian, but...

...then you go on to demonstrate that you had absolutely no idea that Debian has a release cycle that averages well over two years.

Can you explain how this very peculiar situation came to be?

http://kopimistsamfundet.se/en...

Since the Euro hasn't been around for decades, that's unlikely.

Actually, it could. Imagine you have a virtual package, say xfce-environment, which depends on sudoku and everything else XFCE. This package is the only package that is explicitly installed, and through it you got your DE. The system is configured to automatically remove packages that are not explicitly requested (mine works that way - when I remove a package, any package that is installed solely because it's a dependency of that package is also removed). So, luser uninstalls sudoku, which forces removal of virtual packagee xfce-environment (since this virtual package has a dependency on everything, including sudoku), now every single other package that xfce-environment depended on, which has no other reasons to exist on the system, will also be uninstalled. I can see this happening, and have seen similar situations myself.

Now, I don't think the system is in the wrong here - the user should probably have paid a bit more attention, but I do not think his story is necessarily false.

Maybe they don't like the concept of thoughtcrime.