@scottalanmiller said in Apple May Face Epic Tax Bill:

@nadnerB said in Apple May Face Epic Tax Bill:

Why are the EU only coming after them now? Could it be that the EU is clutching at straws for more money post Brexit?

All things like this take a long time.

Yup, this is the result of an investigation ongoing since 2013 http://www.afr.com/technology/mobiles-and-tablets/apple/apples-tax-secrets-hidden-in-australian-filings-may-have-helped-the-european-commission-20160831-gr5e2x

@scottalanmiller said in Kim Dotcom Wins Right to Livestream Appeal:

As well as a 20 minute delay, in which some details can be beeped out from what goes out on the internet, the judge has also ruled that once the six-week hearing is over it cannot be kept online forever.

Yeah, good luck with that Judge Streisand.

@MattSpeller said in US Completes First Offshore Windfarm:

@BBigford said in US Completes First Offshore Windfarm:

@MattSpeller said in US Completes First Offshore Windfarm:

@BBigford said in US Completes First Offshore Windfarm:

@MattSpeller said in US Completes First Offshore Windfarm:

@MattSpeller said in US Completes First Offshore Windfarm:

@travisdh1 said in US Completes First Offshore Windfarm:

@MattSpeller said in US Completes First Offshore Windfarm:

@travisdh1 said in US Completes First Offshore Windfarm:

@MattSpeller said in US Completes First Offshore Windfarm:

@travisdh1 said in US Completes First Offshore Windfarm:

@IRJ said in US Completes First Offshore Windfarm:

P.S. I used to have a neighbor that used solely green energy. They used wind and solar on their house. We lived on the west bank of the lagoon which is ideal for wind ( bad for boating), but good for energy.

If money were no object, I'd be using thermal. You can get it anywhere, but drilling a deep enough well is what makes it prohibitively expensive, and it's not so great on a large scale yet from what I know. Secondary to that would be a Thorium or PBR reactor, but the smallest of those are town sized units.

I too would like my own nuclear reactor... I solemnly swear that I will do very little evil with it....

Good luck producing any fissionable materials with either of those. Physics protecting us from @MattSpeller.

Pfffft I can do tons of fun stuff if you give me half a megawatt to play with

Death ray?

Enormous capacitor bank to feed my home brewed RailGun that would only ever be used for good I totally promise 😄

Oh goodness, the mind boggles with the options....

I'd use the proceeds to start Canada's only firearms ammunition manufacturing company, smelting the lead bars myself from recycled car batteries.

Oh, also, recycling plastics (HUGELY energy intensive, could easily take all 500KW on it's own)

Canada has no ammunition factories? I'd be so bummed about not having any... Every town in Idaho I've lived in makes bullets. Not just reloads in someone's basements, but big businesses. 😄

Like CCI (Spear, ATK). Anyone who's done some serious shooting in the USA knows what CCI is. Their headquarters was just down the street in Lewiston, ID.

We import it all from our ludicrously well armed Southern neighbours.

PS: please give Canada ITAR exemptions, because we have cool guns but no companies to make the ammo. With no limit on caliber it's 100% legal to own artillery, flak and anti-tank guns here. I need some 40mm bofors! 😄

You had me at 'no regulations'.... it's beautiful. :'D

lol we have a million regulations and rules like you would not believe. If, however, you are patient and follow the rules you can own just about anything you want that's not fully automatic (strangely enough "machine guns" are more restricted than artillery - yes, that is exactly as dumb as you think it is)

152mm howitzer
T-34-85 tanks
40mm bofors anti-aircraft hydraulic swivelling towed guns...

Well considering artillery is no more a gun than a black powdered rifle. In the USA, a BPR is not a firearm because there is no cartridge to expand and expel the projectile. The barrel is technically the cartridge in that regard. Very dumb, but very specific.

We can still get fully automatic weapons. I just don't go through the loops because of how much ammunition costs and what the firearms cost. Well beyond my budget. The sellers who think that a machine pistol like an Uzi worth as much as they try to sell them for.. haha ridiculous. There's a few guns I'd like to get that require a NFA license (basically to buy those firearms). But each firearm costs thousands of dollars. No thanks. I'll just pull the trigger faster. 😄

@travisdh1 said in Top Ten Worst Computers Ever Video:

@scottalanmiller At least they got the Packard Hells in properly.

Yup, was happy to see that crap included. The Lisa I thought was a bad inclusion as well, that was a great machine.

@tiagom said in Rackspace Bought Out and Now Private:

Interesting, glad i asked.

It's why we were so excited about Dell going private, they can focus on quality products and long term thinking in a way that almost no one else can. It's why NTG is a private company, answering to shareholders publicly is not just crippling because of stock price manipulation, but it also is very costly. Big public companies spend a fortune placating stockholders, explaining things to them, holding stock holder events, etc. It's a massive cost center with no value (other than investment money) and often many of the executive staff, like the CEO, mainly spend their time working to make them happy rather than running the business!

@JaredBusch said in The Marriage of Microsoft and Linux:

Also, the macOS version of Office 2016 is near completely feature consistent with the Windows version.

And macOS is a `Nix derivative.

I "think" that they use native libraries there (Cocoa) so that it's a port that would have to be replicated to go to native on Linux. Maybe now that 2016 is out they will just get the JavaScript version on Mac OSX and be on parity right away and be ready for Linux, too. That's another big piece of this puzzle, going to web apps is going to allow MS to now just remove the cost of making and maintaining the Mac version, but get the Linux version for free, and stop the cost of making the secondary online version. All three current versions plus the future Linux version will collapse into one. That's a massive cost savings.

@scottalanmiller said in AMD, trying to mount a comeback.:

@hobbit666 said in AMD, trying to mount a comeback.:

wow 32cores that's going to be expensive for licensing when everyone starts doing it based on cores not cpu's 🙂 Like Microsoft SQL and Datacentre

Only a few places do that, most are not based around cores. Most enterprise OSes don't need licensing at all. Remember that even 32 cores is tiny for big iron where they are way past these numbers long ago.

Oh, I'm reliving memories from 1997-2002 here, and the licensing associated with IDEAS, CATIA, and Pro-E. Most of those didn't have per-core licensing, but I remember one did. Just thinking about all the licensing servers in use at that place can cause me to have convulsions.

@Tim_G said in PowerShell & Office 365 Remoting Broken - Fix:

wusa

Thanks.

Just to clarify: PowerShell is not required here because wusa(.exe) is a regular executable file, not a cmdlet. Any other way that let you execute a program with elevated rights will do (e.g. cmd.exe, shortcuts, ...)

I got the chance to update to version 10. Currently running as a VM in Hyper-V on Ubuntu 16.04. A couple things to note...

Don't forget to save a copy of any theme folder you may have created and paste it pack into the /nextcloud/themes folder

You'll have to go back into your config file and enter the theme folder name back in as this got removed during the upgrade process

I proceeded with the upgrade via the web page. Once the new v10 folder was created and config file and theme folder copied back, I simply launched the upgrade from the web page. It's a very small install so only took a few minutes to complete.

I had installed the "disclaimer" experimental app on the previous v9.0.53 install and not really surprised that the new install got rid of that. If there was one request I would make it would be to include some version of the "disclaimer" app as a supported app in a future release. This is a very easy way to make sure the terms & conditions are available right from the application.

Will report back if there are any issues but so far so good! Nice job!

That's one of the reasons that I like having a nice home office... I can stand, walk and keep myself "busy" while I am thinking. It makes me feel good about not wasting time while thinking, while helping me to think better, while getting some physical activity. It also helps to keep my house clean and organized 🙂

And happy birthday to Linux, as well.

Internet of the Figment of Security (because the NSA is demanding back doors to everything)

"Ifs" for short If we had access, this wouldn't have happened.... Yeah sure....

MaruOS

Linux for your phone.

Maru packs a complete desktop experience on your smartphone. Your phone runs independently of your desktop so you can take a call and work on your big screen at the same time. Personal computing couldn't be simpler.

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Nice, a few things to check out.