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Comment Re:As I recall... (Score 1) 191

RedHat started charging for no support licenses back in RHEL5 days. Boy was I pissed. I told the rep I was going to stop testing RHEL for new projects. He said he could get me some free licenses for test, but I said what's the point, It's easy enough to use something else without the hassle.

Submission + - Eric Clapton Successfully Sues Woman for Posting $11 Bootleg (guitarworld.com)

kjshark writes: Eric Clapton has successfully sued a German woman who posted an illegal recording for €9.95, about $11 on eBay. The CD was a single-bootlegged recording of a Clapton concert from the 1980s.
After Clapton sent a court in Düsseldorf an affidavit stating the recordings were illegal, the defendant claimed she was unaware the CD was recorded illegally and that her late husband originally purchased the CD at a department store in 1987. Her appeal was rejected by the court.
The court ruled that the woman pay the legal fees for both parties which amount to around $3,500 and that if she continues to keep the recording up on eBay she’ll face six months in prison or a fine of around $283,000.
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fconsequence.net%2F2021%2F1...

Comment Let the investors loose (Score 1) 311

The majority of American people who have no investments should not be put on the hook for bad decisions of investors. This what the EU did to Greece (and others) contributing to the great recession. People who had no say in the formation and investment in bonds all of a sudden became responsible for propping up foreign investors. They were just recovering when this pandemic hit. In the US Wall street throws parties on our bailout money while the rest of got no relief.Let's not have any illusions about who these governments work for and how much they care about the rest of us.

Comment Re:Don't get your hopes up (Score 3, Informative) 87

Even that is optimistic. Nothing is getting done because everything is focused on peach mints.

The house is doing the impeachment hearings. They also have already passed the bill in question. Moscow Mitch McConnell has let almost nothing from the house come to a vote in the Senate. He is sitting on over a hundred bills that he will never allow to come to a vote. Keep your eye on the ball.

Comment Re:Assange is a punkass (Score 1) 401

I agree. Assange has said on TV that he has dirt on Clinton that he will release in due time. If he has it why not release it now? It has to be because he wants to time the release to do as much damage as possible to the Clinton campaign or he doesn't really have it. Either way, Assange is crossing the line from freedom of information fighter to attempted spoiler of a political campaign in service to his personal grudge.

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Journal Journal: US Defense using 8-inch floppys in a system that coordinates nuclear forces

The United States Government Accountability Office released a report "Federal Agencies Need to Address Aging Legacy Systems".
http://www.gao.gov/assets/680/677454.pdf

From http://www.cnbc.com/2016/05/25/us-military-uses-8-inch-floppy-disks-to-coordinate-nuclear-force-operations.html?wpmm=1&wpisrc=nl_daily202

Comment It's called protecting America (Score 3, Interesting) 209

When they're looking at you, fine. But congress freaked out when the CIA was looking at THEM. It's fair to say they think rules are great for us, but they should be held to a different arbitrary self made standard when it comes to applying the law to themselves:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

Comment How about the F-35 boondoggle ? (Score 1) 506

Like the Healthcare and Finance reforms, this is a step in the right direction, but we should be doing much better (thanks, Republicans) The F-35 is already way over budget and it is predicted to cost 1.5 trillion over the planned lifetime, This is for a tool that barely works. The brilliance of the evil plan was spreading production to almost every state so each one will have a stake in the pork.
http://www.vanityfair.com/poli...

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