Posts by datafabric

Re: Devuan smugness

To kill -9 systemd, fork RHEL/CentOS without systemd, similar to devuan. Red Hat will abandon systemd when the fork has enough traction.

RHEL w/out systemd

If you want to kill -9 systemd, fork RHEL without systemd, similar to that of devuan and debian. If there's enough traction Red Hat will abandon systemd, i.e. hit them where it hurts and all that. Surprise Oracle hasn't caught on and fork RHEL w/out systemd.

Re: Some enterprising outfit like Blackberry should announce endless security updates

I will seriously consider the new BB Android phone w/keyboard if BB make such announcement. Also, not an Apple fanboi but an iPhone is a good possibility for next phone.

Re: Really?

Europe consumer protection > US. In Europe, chip and pin exists for close to a decade before introduction in US. CC industry excuse for US is that merchants do not like the slow transaction, especially during holidays, and consumers can dispute fraud charges, etc. In reality, merchants and CC just want to separate $ from consumers as quickly as allow.

In US, CC and big merchants write off their losses as tax deductible, so there's no need to provide consumers with protection or secure services. Minimal requirements and unless requires by regulation and all that from the big boys.