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Comment Re:Summary ... (Score 1, Informative) 220

It's no surprise that most Slashdotters have lost their sense of wonder, as they've forgotten what it was like to be children.

Despite DST existing, I clearly remember waiting for the bus in the dark for part of the year.

DST doesn't do what it's supposed to do, and it kills people. It's weird to celebrate that.

Comment Usual wank comments (Score 2) 68

There are lots of clowns here who think because they run a few VMs at home they are experts.

Companies know they are getting bent over. VMWare know it

To migrate off though costs you $X in Labour and Y in people hours. And that is before you factor in any business disruption. Now multiply those numbers when you have hundreds of thousands of VMs. And all that assumes every transition goes quickly with 100% success and nothing breaks.

Even at less than a hundred VMs it took a minimum of 6 months to do with full time consultants doing the work and trying to weave it into normal business operations - we were lucky in that a lot could be done at weekends.

Comment Re: Threating to "shoot up" a police station (Score 1) 89

Is there any language in the Terms of Service / Terms of Use that declare that their service is a mandatory reporter?

I guarantee you that they gave themselves the right to review your input for any purpose and inform law enforcement if they feel the need. I haven't read the agreement, but I'd still bet money.

Comment What? (Score 0) 22

Initiative, Clearinghouse... What? Most of us don't even want to know whether those are programs or products, and certainly don't know now.

IBM is pretty bad at naming in general, their names really tell weird stories. And I say that as someone who used to work for them doing support for TME10, another beautifully named product.

Comment Re: Be scared!!!! (Score -1, Troll) 11

We do get a lot of weird cross signaling about the future, don't we? They cry about falling birth rates while making it less attractive than ever to try to raise children, complain that no one wants to join the military while making it a worse place to be -and what else are those unwanted children for? Certainly not for the jobs they're obsoleting with AI, but if you don't have a job you can't have health care or food aid. Unless you can find volunteer hours that is, so you can have health care but only if you work for nothing, welcome to our latest form of mass slavery.

Comment Re: Threating to "shoot up" a police station (Score 1) 89

Really? Are my onedrive, g-drive and dropbox accounts all being scanned for 'threats' or other things I write in my documents?

Probably not yet, but I wouldn't assume they aren't or won't be, and they certainly are being scanned for CP.

Where does it end? How can any company ever accept any user input if they have to check and double check it for 'bad' things?

Yeah, that's the question, but since they're already scanning for CSAM (which I'm not against, BTW) there's ample precedent for scanning your data for unlawful content.

You should never, ever trust any data storage provider to keep your data secret, or to not snoop through it. That's not a thing. They are snooping through data all the time, if yours doesn't get looked at, it's only by luck.

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