I suspect that will do little good. They can just as well (and likely will) force you to register at some point under the threat of disconnecting your service.
Pre-paid SIM registration was introduced in Poland 7 years ago and existing cards which weren't in use were deactivated. Already active ones had a grace period after which owners either had to register these or pick new SIM and provide required personal data anyway. So I guess similar thing will happen for Lithuania.
The registration was available via short codes since operators in some cases already had the necessary personal data, or or it could be done by physically filling forms at operator's store.
That's how wirtualnemedia.pl portal described the purpose of SIM registration in its FAQ:
> What is the purpose of prepaid card registration? Does it function in other countries of the European Union?
> The primary purpose of the regulation is to increase the effectiveness of the Polish anti-terrorist system, thereby increasing the security of all Polish citizens. The obligation to register SIM cards is aimed at limiting the possibility of communication and camouflage for criminals, including those involved in terrorist activities. Some European Union countries have regulations imposing restrictions on the ability to purchase prepaid cards at service points of telecommunications operators. Such solutions are adopted in Germany, the UK, Spain, Bulgaria and Hungary, among others. The obligation to collect data on subscribers using telecommunications services is found in German law, among others.
It seems that now only Estonia and Latvia still will have "free" pre-paid SIM cards
This is absolutely not about hardware (or even software). It is about indemnification from copyright infringement claims. Adobe's main selling point for Firefly (or whatever it is called) is that is trained on Adobe's data.
Not the same scenario but recently GoDaddy conveniently "forgot" to extract auto-payment for the only domain I still had with them (somewhat exotic .es TLD) and also forgot to warn me about it, letting the domain registration lapse.
I noticed it via the automatic monitoring once the domain stopped resolving and escalated it, at which point GoDaddy graciously offered me to reinstate the domain for $55 lapsed registration fee. After a brief (10 sec) consideration I've made a counteroffer by telling GoDaddy to go fuck themselves and registering a "normal" .com domain with my default registrar. I am very lucky it was a tiny hobby website with no critical audience. Thank you for the lesson, GoDaddy!
I was surprised to learn last week that GoDaddy waits until the renewal date to renew. I'm used to other registrars renewing 30 days in advance, so you have time to fix any billing issues before the fees to get it back after it expires.
Strange, they never asked those condemned to actually utter some sound or mimic something, isn't it? Well, that's because residual muscle twitch is not controlled and is not conscious. Rapid drop of blood pressure renders the person (well, their head, in that case) unconscious within a couple seconds and it is downhill from there.
What an amazing example of sensationalism and rumor milling! Not a single thing was said about the possibility of a second round of layoffs but hey - the fact Pichai didn't flat out denied it must mean it is in the works!
1. RHEL was the first distro directed at enterprise deployment (meaning, strong preference of rock solid stability and predictability over constant churn). Which made it the only distro Dells and HPs of the world recognized and agreed to support.
2. RHEL was created on legacy of RedHat Linux, which was the best distro for non-hobbyist environments (from reproducible deployments to the breadth of packages available) - since 3.0.3 onwards. RedHat JUST. WORKED.
1. Debian always had more stability and predictability than Red Hat in practice. Too much so. The Dells and HPs of the world didn't recognize it because it was not a company.
2. My impression was again that Debian was technically better than RedHat in every way I might care about. We happily installed it at $work, and the experienced Unix sysadmins I knew could use RedHat but didn't like it so much.
> Dells and HPs of the world didn't recognize it [Debian] because it was not a company.
IIRC Debian maintainers formed companies for that reason.
I was a Debian user because it suited me. It was obvious (to me at the time) that suits were going to choose RedHat, and we ran it a bit to have experience.
How wrong I was. Ubuntu made Debian every bit as much as a "choice of the suits" as Redhat.
1. Culture is a dynamic and malleable thing, and through thoughtful criticism, it's possible to help people not be pedantic assholes on internet message boards.
2. If a post is both unnecessarily abrasive, and doesn't meaningfully engage with the post it's responding to, it adds no value to the conversation, and thus is not worth defending.
