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It's not just the OS lying about a write being complete. The hard drive controller can lie and say the write is complete when really just queued up to be written. Same for the hard drives themselves. Most modern hard drives have an internal write cache that's enabled by default.

Normally, it doesn't cause too many problems, but for things like transactionaly consistent databases, it's a really really big deal when the H/W lies about a write being complete.

At work, I actually had to test this using a remote logging disk write test driver. Under high write load, we could pull the plug and the test driver could detect that a write operation was logged to the remote machine as completed, but the write never made it to disks. This could cause a lost transaction log write would corrupt the database about 90% of the time (we used diskchecker.pl to test this. See https://brad.livejournal.com/2... ). We found the obscure disk controller command that turns off the hard drive internal write cache, and it completely fixed the problem.

Note that modern SSDs have this problem too. Some "enterprise quality" SSDs have a capacitor power the SSD for the few seconds it takes to flush it's write cache. (See https://ec.kemet.com/ssd-hold-... )

Let me leave this (or here or the original) for your edification.

You were likely in Seattle, Portland, or some other left-wing city where this sort of thing is encouraged or at least tolerated. Those of us in rougher areas would never try that.

I know you weren't in Houston, like I am. In Houston even cyclist obeying every law, bending over backwards to be courteous, or even going so far as to ride through the grass and stay all the way off the road will have beer bottle, sodas and insults hurled at them in the right parts of the city. I've heard tale of motorist running cyclist into the grass in straight up violation of every traffic and safety law, then threaten to call the cops on THEM.

Here's a historical account of one of my own Houston encounters.

AirBnb doesn't own houses or homes. They are convincing other people to rent out THEIR homes (as a charity donation).

That's still useful because AirBnb has legal guidelines in place to protect the homeowner when they decide to rent out their home. Many states have extremely strict tenant-protection laws which makes it take about a year to evict a squatting tenant. People who've invited a friend down on their luck to stay in an extra bedroom for "a short while" have run afoul of this, resulting in the friend refusing to move out and the homeowner having to go through the lengthy and expensive eviction process to remove them.

For this reason, unless it was a relative or one of my neighbors I know well, I doubt I'd invite anyone to stay at my home even in the event of a natural disaster. Unless it was under the legal protection of a company like AirBnb which provides legal and property insurance.

Ah yes, the advantages of glass bottles. https://ic.pics.livejournal.com/write_light/11965346/677967/677967_original.jpg

I redeemed every UltraViolet movie I ever got. Yes it was a bit of a confusing endeavor, and I wrote about it quite a bit. I would be upset if Ultraviolet were truly dead, I rarely use it to actually watch movies, but I like having them there in case there's a theoretical stuck somewhere but I still have bandwidth occasion, that's why I'm incredibly diligent about the kids movies.

All that's happened when you get down to it is Disney finally partnered up with all of the UltraViolet people, and then Amazon got in on it, Google was already working with Disney (I found that surprising). Now I can watch my Amazon, UltraViolet and Disney Movies Anywhere (keychest) stuff on YouTube. Or I can use my Vudu account and watch all that stuff on my parents BluRay player.

Flixster was just a single place to redeem codes, it's no big deal, the real big deal is the fact all the other places are working together now.

There are other theories

Unfortunately, large parts of the American right don't believe this to be true.

Fixed that for you. And, oh, a reference.

Like you said, nothing could go wrong. Just take a look at how well the ammo was stored:

http://bmpd.livejournal.com/25...

I follow Russian news, and I can tell that there is a massive fire and blasts like this one in Russia on a regular basis. I don't know if this reflects more on the poor governance in that part of the world or on the fact that many of those munitions are long past their prime. Have a look at these rusted grenade shells (pictures from Ukraine):

http://bmpd.livejournal.com/25...

To be honest, I doubt we will ever find truth about what happened there. On one hand, this ammo depot is located in the region that borders Russia and Ukraine's pro-Russian separatist region of Donbass, and therefore, we can assume that there is a good chance that the fire was set off as an act of sabotage by Russians or by Ukraine's rebels.

On the other hand, considering the extremely poor, inept, and corrupt governance that all of Ukraine (including its military) have experienced in the last 25 years, I wouldn't discount the possibility that ammunition depot fire was set off by an accident.

Either way, this incident has produced pictures that rival the December of 2016 pyro-accident in Mexico.

Have a look:

http://bmpd.livejournal.com/25...

I've made scores of international trips in my life, for business and pleasure, and on only one occasion did the border guards demand access to my laptop. That was at Pyongyang International Airport in North Korea, in August of 2015. And at least the search was conducted in full view of myself -- they even asked me to do a lot of it myself, since they were completely unfamiliar with KDE and couldn't type on my Dvorak keyboard. It turns out all they were looking for were South Korean movies (which they didn't want me distributing to the locals), and as soon as it became obvious that I had none, they called off the search.

He said it in the speech he gave at the conference. That's why I said you needed to Google it. She was referring to an event you clearly were not familiar with.

Transcription here: http://mjg59.livejournal.com/1...

"And we also have the cult of the virgin of emacs. The virgin of emacs is any female who has not yet learned how to use emacs. And in the church of emacs we believe that taking her emacs virginity away is a blessed act."

This story presents facts about Russia's troll factory in St. Petersburg, just as I have done in numerous previous postings and got hammered by the Russian trolls. Go ahead, check my most recent postings to see how the trolls mindlessly mod me down for reporting facts about this troll factory, about the continuing shipments of cargo 200 from Ukraine (i.e. dead Russian soldiers), the terrorists in Ukraine who openly admit Russian soldiers are fighting there and supplying them with arms and munitions, or the Russian soldiers who state they have been sent to Ukraine and have fought there, and finally, the law which Putin signed which bars Russian mothers from talking about their sons who have died while fighting in Ukraine or even talking with other mothers about these deaths. Or course the graves of these dead Russian soldiers say otherwise, as do reports from eyewitnesses and families.

This story need to be modded down in like fashion. Wouldn't want the Russian trolls to have to see the facts of their dear leader's propaganda industry.

For those who are really worried about the fate of the Russian aircraft carrier, it's actually alive and well, and it's already striking targets in Syria. Here is a collection of recent pics and videos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

http://bmpd.livejournal.com/22...

http://bmpd.livejournal.com/22...

For those who are really worried about the fate of the Russian aircraft carrier, it's actually alive and well, and it's already striking targets in Syria. Here is a collection of recent pics and videos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

http://bmpd.livejournal.com/22...

http://bmpd.livejournal.com/22...

Sure, they saved some money when they stiffed Russia for their gas bill, but not enough to be able to spend on frivolous things.

Considering how much money the Russian puppet Yanukovych stole from Ukraine before he fled into the arms of Russia, and how much Russia owes Ukraine for the damage it is causing by its invasion and support of the terrorists in East Ukraine, Russia is the one who is spending money on frivolous things it can't afford.

Since we now know how much money Russia is spending to support the terrorists in Ukraine, as well as its plans to try and destabilize Ukraine, it's no wonder you think Ukraine is poor for wanting to be out from under the thumb of Russian corruption.

Then again, with the continuing stream of dead Russian soldiers leaving Ukraine, Putin is having to dig deep to pay out death benefits to the families. Speaking of digging deep, how about all those unmarked graves of dead Russian soldiers sprinkled about Ukraine? How much to you think that's costing Putin?

How much would you bet that any work done to develop this is paid for by U.S. tax dollars so that it can all be funneled back to some big defense contractor?

Considering the theft Putin is perpetrating in Crimea by stealing people's property and businesses, perhaps you should be asking how many of your rubles are going into Putin's pockets and the pockets of his oligarch friends?

When one considers Russia has an office in St. Petersburg out of which it pays an army of online trolls to spew Russian propaganda or muddy the waters by making false statements and outright lies about Russia's invasion of Ukraine, one person from the U.S., doing this on his own without government backing, doesn't quite rise to the level of nuisance.

Sure, Putin is probably miffed this has been done and is looking for payback, but when one is spending millions of dollars every year to pay people (not to mention their vodka allotment) to do your bidding, and providing them the equipment to do so, one person isn't going to make a difference.

Had he instead posted pictures of the unmarked graves of Russian soldiers who have died during the invasion of Ukraine, that would have been different and had a greater impact. Not that Putin cares about the over 2,000 soldiers who have so far died during the invasion, including colonels within the Russian military who are working to support the invasion, but it would have been a nice touch to rub Putin's nose into how badly Russia miscalculated and is suffering because of Putin's ego.

just remembered that i've written some short fiction on this exact topic.

http://eyenot.livejournal.com/...

#56 in this one also mentions slugs in the next-higher level of reality:
http://eyenot.livejournal.com/...

just remembered that i've written some short fiction on this exact topic.

http://eyenot.livejournal.com/...

#56 in this one also mentions slugs in the next-higher level of reality:
http://eyenot.livejournal.com/...

Quoting without permission Rob Landley:
http://lists.celinuxforum.org/...

"I'm sorry, I'm confused by the CONCEPT of having a shortage of TODO items.
This is just the top of my head _Linux_ stuff, and doesn't include purely-me
items like learning LUA. I want to get a mac and learn THAT stuff. I want to
get my master's degree so I can become a full-time college professor when I'm
ready to retire from programming. I want to write multiple books. I want to
start a third convention so I have an excuse to wave the Cartoon Guide to
Federal Spectrum Policy at people
(http://www.newamerica.net/files/archive/Pub_File_1555_1.pdf). I want to learn
to draw so I can start a webcomic. I have enormous stacks of books to read.
I need to watch the rest of Mythbusters, catch up on the new Dr. Who, and play
Dragon Age. I want to garden and cook and bike and swim. I want to get rich
and start the world's largest nudist resort. I want to dig up the recording
of the time I got Neil Gaiman to say "By Grabthar's hammer, you shall be
avenged" into a microphone (after his reading of Crazy Hair at Penguicon 2)
and also get Ralph Nader to say "Luke, I am your Father" into another
microphone. I need to completely redo my website (and make a "random cool
stuff" page listing http://sidhefaer.livejournal.c... and
http://theglen.livejournal.com... and so on...)

Theres... a shortage of stuff to do somewhere?

Really?

How does that work?
"

Quoting without permission Rob Landley:
http://lists.celinuxforum.org/...

"I'm sorry, I'm confused by the CONCEPT of having a shortage of TODO items.
This is just the top of my head _Linux_ stuff, and doesn't include purely-me
items like learning LUA. I want to get a mac and learn THAT stuff. I want to
get my master's degree so I can become a full-time college professor when I'm
ready to retire from programming. I want to write multiple books. I want to
start a third convention so I have an excuse to wave the Cartoon Guide to
Federal Spectrum Policy at people
(http://www.newamerica.net/files/archive/Pub_File_1555_1.pdf). I want to learn
to draw so I can start a webcomic. I have enormous stacks of books to read.
I need to watch the rest of Mythbusters, catch up on the new Dr. Who, and play
Dragon Age. I want to garden and cook and bike and swim. I want to get rich
and start the world's largest nudist resort. I want to dig up the recording
of the time I got Neil Gaiman to say "By Grabthar's hammer, you shall be
avenged" into a microphone (after his reading of Crazy Hair at Penguicon 2)
and also get Ralph Nader to say "Luke, I am your Father" into another
microphone. I need to completely redo my website (and make a "random cool
stuff" page listing http://sidhefaer.livejournal.c... and
http://theglen.livejournal.com... and so on...)

Theres... a shortage of stuff to do somewhere?

Really?

How does that work?
"

I think this company is really great! http://cargoprimeway.com/ http://cargoprimeway.livejourn... The work is going extremely fast and effective! you must try it!

When I read comments like yours, I always start wonder if you're on the payroll of Lockheed Martin. I mean seriously, what exactly does an armchair expert like you know about the Russian T-50 fighter jet or the Russian T-14 tank or what exactly does anyone know about T-14 armor? Both of these projects are still in testing stages (the Indian FGFA will be based on T-50). India just agreed to continue investing in the FGFA project development to the tune of 4 billion USD.

As for the T-14 tank, you can't really argue that it's behind the western tanks. It has a crewless fully autonomous turret, an armored crew cell, a very extensive electronic counter measures suite, and a design that's meant to accept a higher caliber gun in the future, all of which make it, at least on paper, a step or two ahead of all of western tanks.

Here are a couple of link with beautiful images of the T-50 and T-14 just from days ago:

http://bmpd.livejournal.com/1841727.html

http://bmpd.livejournal.com/1834857.html?thread=180674921

When I read comments like yours, I always start wonder if you're on the payroll of Lockheed Martin. I mean seriously, what exactly does an armchair expert like you know about the Russian T-50 fighter jet or the Russian T-14 tank or what exactly does anyone know about T-14 armor? Both of these projects are still in testing stages (the Indian FGFA will be based on T-50). India just agreed to continue investing in the FGFA project development to the tune of 4 billion USD.

As for the T-14 tank, you can't really argue that it's behind the western tanks. It has a crewless fully autonomous turret, an armored crew cell, a very extensive electronic counter measures suite, and a design that's meant to accept a higher caliber gun in the future, all of which make it, at least on paper, a step or two ahead of all of western tanks.

Here are a couple of link with beautiful images of the T-50 and T-14 just from days ago:

http://bmpd.livejournal.com/1841727.html

http://bmpd.livejournal.com/1834857.html?thread=180674921

Not that it is really relevant to this discussion, but my political views did not change when I was in prison. Here's an entry from my blog from 2008 demonstrating my long-held views, as well as a Fortune magazine article from 2010.

I didn't put my personal politics at the forefront of my rhetoric when I was fighting my case, because the potential legal precedents involved were too important to have them overshadow it. We were talking about the future of everyone who uses a computer. It was important enough for the EFF and the world's most important legal scholars on the subject of computer crime to take up their pens on. I didn't want to disrespect their work at the time, so I bit my tongue and kept many of my thoughts to myself.

Now I am no longer fighting my case. No precedent that affects us all is on the line. I no longer have an obligation to keep my thoughts to myself, and thus speak them freely.

Russians weren't that far behind. I am mostly posting because of the "cold war asset" reason for secrecy.

One link: http://leon-spb67.livejournal.... (Russian)

During the War, Russians made wood artillery base mockup. Germans dutyfully bombed that mockup using... wooden bombs!

After learning that germans know about mockery, headquarters decided to place real artillery there and brought fire to germans from unexpected direction.

Just one of many episodes from our War.

Though it would (ha, ha) at least have been calorific.

http://interdictor.livejournal...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Not sure what you mean. They're working on a next generation codec and they'll standardize it through the IETF NetVC working group. As for existing codecs, Microsoft has started work on integrating WebM, VP9 and Opus into Edge.

The Sad Puppies won. Yes, they didn't win a single award -- in fact, some really good works lost to No Award, seemingly just to spite them.

But that was the point.

Their stated goal was to prove that there was a group of people out there voting for political reasons and fixing the Hugos. To fight this, they did the unforgivable sin of nominating some good works (such as one of the Dresden Files novels) for a Hugo.

The CHORF / SJWs fell for it en mass, just as George R R Martin begged them not to (archive version) back in April. They proved the Sad Puppies point -- that the Hugos are fixed by a group of gatekeepers.

The Hugos have been fixed for years, to the point that Steven King outright refused to participate due to how bad it became. The CHORFs proved the Sad Puppies' point more than anything else could. The Hugos have been forever tarnished by this -- not by the Sad Puppies voting in the "wrong way" for the "wrong type of fans", but by the CHORFs decreeing that you have to have the right politics, the right thoughts, the right opinions, to be a "real fan" or a "real hugo winner."

OEIS is great. I started working on a project and was able to find some other work done on the same sequence(s)... ,3,5,9,7,15,11,27,... -- my project concerns representing the positive integers in terms of their prime factorization and then examining the properties of various operations on this representation. =)

That's not the real list, follow the link to the link.
http://spot.livejournal.com/30...

My first thought on reading this is that this guy started coding this year. #1-3 is solved by using GitHub, TFS online or one of the popular choices most FOSS projects already seem to use. (e.g. How would an experienced developer get these problems in the first place?)....I see he's employed by Red Hat. Does this list as news suggest that Red Hat's internal development processes are immature too?

He wrote the list based on things he'd seen in Chromium, so it's Google's problems. Here is the full list. Not surprising, since they used to jam all their code into a single repository.

(It's hard to fault them for a 100+MB source code download though, unless there's a lot of redundancy in the code).

His list, instead of the link to a blog with an article about the list. That blog post is interesting - though the picture of the author scratching is just weird. Was that taken at a lice convention?

If we're going to talk about Callaway's Points of Fail, and create a link in the Slashdot summary that *looks* like it takes you to that list, then perhaps there should actually be a link to the list.

Callaway's original Points of Fail blog post.

You know, instead of the usual Slashdot way of pointing to an article wrapper that talks briefly about some of the points and then eventually links to the real list.

I've never met a Russian that knew anything about Byzantium.

You met me for one :)

In truth, though, "Third Rome" is part of the history textbooks. I don't know how it is presented today, but back when I studied history in school it was fairly neutral, but certainly featured quite prominently, largely because it was an important part of the founding myth of the first czars after post-Mongol reunification.

Also, pretty much any devout Eastern Orthodox Russian will know quite a lot about Byzantium for the simple reason that it's where the Russian church tradition originates - even many words for various associated concepts are basically transliterated Greek words. And most of the recognized Fathers of the Church, martyrs and saints are also from that period, and as religious people study their lives, they also learn about the history of that period, at least to the extent relevant to their goal (which includes some customs, government system etc).

There's one other related thing that was appropriated from Byzantium wholesale, and often presented as one of the key features of the "genuine Russian" (as opposed to Western democracy) sociopolitical arrangement by those with a religious bent - symphonia. It meshes very well with the authoritarian state backed by religious ideology that Putin has been building over the past few years, so it has a resurgence of popularity lately.

As to the notion that they're pure after having the Soviets run their world... It is to laugh, is it not?

The traditional Orthodox approach to that was to claim that Soviet rule was basically a kind of divine collective punishment for abandoning "Third Rome", divinely instituted autocracy etc. From that perspective, the rejection of communist ideology after the dissolution of the USSR and the revival of the Church were repentance, and, consequently, the present arrangement derives directly from Imperial Russia (and through it from Muscovy, Byzantium and Rome), skipping the Soviet period altogether.

Of late, though, this is a much less popular view, because it also glosses over WW2, the important part of the USSR/Russia (to most today this is synonymous) national mythology. Especially so as it goes along well with the overall messianic idea of Third Rome - you know, that whole "save the world from pure evil" thing. Consequently, there have been some, shall we say, creative reinterpretations. Since a picture is worth a thousand words, here's a few: 1 2 3. Basically, Stalin is presented as a return to the theocratic-autocratic tradition after the "satanic" rule of the Bolsheviks, with emphasis on his revival of the Church, the return of conservative social mores (e.g. making homosexuality and abortions illegal again), and victory over external foes - all divinely inspired, of course.

In fact, there's now an entire new category of WW2 myths that seek to imbue it with a religious context - for example, there's one about the Battle of Moscow, which claims that when at some point defeat was practically inevitable, Stalin ordered a specific highly venerated Orthodox icon of Mary to be loaded on a plane, and that plane circled Moscow - and after that, the German advance was stopped and ultimately repulsed.

If this all sounds like a very dangerous concoction, that's because it is. Stalinists and Orthodox fanatics were both dangerous each in their own way, but at least they used to fight each other. Now they have mostly found common ground and a common enemy - individual freedom, liberalism in general, and most everything else associated with the Western civilization today.

I've never met a Russian that knew anything about Byzantium.

You met me for one :)

In truth, though, "Third Rome" is part of the history textbooks. I don't know how it is presented today, but back when I studied history in school it was fairly neutral, but certainly featured quite prominently, largely because it was an important part of the founding myth of the first czars after post-Mongol reunification.

Also, pretty much any devout Eastern Orthodox Russian will know quite a lot about Byzantium for the simple reason that it's where the Russian church tradition originates - even many words for various associated concepts are basically transliterated Greek words. And most of the recognized Fathers of the Church, martyrs and saints are also from that period, and as religious people study their lives, they also learn about the history of that period, at least to the extent relevant to their goal (which includes some customs, government system etc).

There's one other related thing that was appropriated from Byzantium wholesale, and often presented as one of the key features of the "genuine Russian" (as opposed to Western democracy) sociopolitical arrangement by those with a religious bent - symphonia. It meshes very well with the authoritarian state backed by religious ideology that Putin has been building over the past few years, so it has a resurgence of popularity lately.

As to the notion that they're pure after having the Soviets run their world... It is to laugh, is it not?

The traditional Orthodox approach to that was to claim that Soviet rule was basically a kind of divine collective punishment for abandoning "Third Rome", divinely instituted autocracy etc. From that perspective, the rejection of communist ideology after the dissolution of the USSR and the revival of the Church were repentance, and, consequently, the present arrangement derives directly from Imperial Russia (and through it from Muscovy, Byzantium and Rome), skipping the Soviet period altogether.

Of late, though, this is a much less popular view, because it also glosses over WW2, the important part of the USSR/Russia (to most today this is synonymous) national mythology. Especially so as it goes along well with the overall messianic idea of Third Rome - you know, that whole "save the world from pure evil" thing. Consequently, there have been some, shall we say, creative reinterpretations. Since a picture is worth a thousand words, here's a few: 1 2 3. Basically, Stalin is presented as a return to the theocratic-autocratic tradition after the "satanic" rule of the Bolsheviks, with emphasis on his revival of the Church, the return of conservative social mores (e.g. making homosexuality and abortions illegal again), and victory over external foes - all divinely inspired, of course.

In fact, there's now an entire new category of WW2 myths that seek to imbue it with a religious context - for example, there's one about the Battle of Moscow, which claims that when at some point defeat was practically inevitable, Stalin ordered a specific highly venerated Orthodox icon of Mary to be loaded on a plane, and that plane circled Moscow - and after that, the German advance was stopped and ultimately repulsed.

If this all sounds like a very dangerous concoction, that's because it is. Stalinists and Orthodox fanatics were both dangerous each in their own way, but at least they used to fight each other. Now they have mostly found common ground and a common enemy - individual freedom, liberalism in general, and most everything else associated with the Western civilization today.

You should listen to more than one source. You might have then found out that Chechens and Dagestanis are among those fighting on the separatist side, too.

And yes, there are Chechens fighting on the Ukrainian side. Those are mostly Chechen nationalists from the 90s. They're Muslims (just as pro-separatist Chechens are), but they are not Islamists.

And then you have stuff like this, which is pure trolling (this particular picture is of separatists, but it happens on both sides).

Women and minority developers are also being driven out of this industry because it is an inherently racist, sexist, misogynist boy's club.

Professional videogame programmer here, closing in on two decades in the industry. My thoughts, if anyone cares...

Don't confuse a few unpleasant but vocal gamers with videogame industry professionals. I've never seen any such behavior among my professional peers. Female programmers (and audio specialists, oddly) are somewhat rare, but there are lots of very talented female artists, writers, and designers that I've worked with over the years. I'm closing in on two decades in the industry, and there are more females developers than ever. Some minorities are still underrepresented, but that's slowly changing as well. The industry wants talented and creative individuals. It has absolutely nothing to do with institutionalized racism or sexism, as far as I can tell. I'm sure it probably exists out there, but I've never seen it personally.

The story of people getting exploited, stressed out, and quitting the industry is nothing new. Lots of people quit the videogame industry, because yes, it is stressful. It's got highly complex, multimillion dollar projects with a fixed deadline, and that means things are going to get stressful before the ship date. Of course, when a company forces people to crunch for months at a time (or even years in some horrible death marches), that's crappy management. Nine months of 80 hour weeks? That's abuse, pure and simple. For the love of God, find a new job NOW. I'd quit the industry as well if that was my only alternative. But it's not. Not every company abuses their workers like that, believe it or not. But if you don't think you're going to be putting in some long hours at the end of a three to five year project, that seems a little optimistic.

Also, to clarify, very few developers earn under $50K. A better indication is the annual Game Developer Salary Survey, which states the average salary is a bit over $83K. Keep in mind when you break this down by job, the differences are made clear. Programmers average $93K, for instance. If you've been in the industry for a decade or two, you can earn quite a bit more than that. QA *average* about $53K, so I'm guessing the Dice writers were talking mostly to QA, who unfortunately tend to get the raw end of the industry stick in just about every way, being the least skilled of the labor pool and often hired as short-term temps (but again, this isn't universal either).

Frankly, I absolutely love my job, and can't imagine doing anything else. I'm aware that I could probably earn more money in a different industry, but I still earn a good living and absolutely love what I do. I'd rather not get painted as a victim, because I feel pretty fortunate. There are a lot of guys that work far harder than me digging ditches in the hot sun or freezing rain and earning a hell of a lot less for it.

Hmmm... There are a lot of men in prisons - lots of rape going on in there too - but apparently, criminals doesn't 'count'.

It is the woman's responsibility to choose wisely, knowing what burden she may carry as the result of a sexual liason. As a father, it is YOUR responsibility to help your daughter develop that skill so that the man she finally chooses will be worthy of her. It may seem unfair, but eggs are a commodity, sperm isn't.

And yes, it is generally true that when a guy thinks he's a nice guy who is rejected because he is 'nice', he typically will blame the woman. Actually, women have a kind of radar on this - and that is explained quite well here: http://divalion.livejournal.co...

Sorta like Simone de Beauvoir's quote in reverse?
http://ic.pics.livejournal.com...

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Debian rejects game due to authors opinion on women.

A properly licensed opensource casino video game was
recently posted to the debian bug tracker as a request
for packaging, as is the standard method for pursuing
such things in debian.

The bug was quickly closed, tagged as "won't fix"
The reason given by one of the debian developers
alluded to the authors past anti-feminist remarks:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bi...

The piece of software in question is licensed
under the GPL and is one of the only of it's
kind for linux (ascii-art console slot machine software)

Is professing progressive politics now a hard requirement
for being allowed to contribute to free software projects?

Debian developers also threatened author with lengthy imprisonment, denied existence of author's contributions

Previously a debian developer, Erich Schubert, claimed that the author of gpcslots had never
contributed anything to opensource, was corrected, replyed to the corrections,
and then deleted the corrections and left up his false claims.
Author has contributed gigabytes of media to opensource, years of programming
work, and has been involved in numerous projects.
http://www.vitavonni.de/blog/2...

Another debian developer, Josselin Mouette, (while bragging that he, JM, had successfuly
campaigned to ban prostitution in france, have Johns arrested, and had run
mafias out of the country) told the author that he was going to have him
arrested by the FBI (van'd) because the author suggested there was no sin
in marrying young girls (and cited a bible verse in support of that).
http://np237.livejournal.com/3...

I,too, am a content creator, and it's disrespectful at best and harmful at worst to pirate content. I don't care what words you choose to use to refer to it (copying, stealing, liberating, whatever), it treats the creator with a disregard to his well-being.

Deep Purple’s Concert Violates Deep Purple’s Rights

        Jul. 7th, 2009 at 7:22 PM

The Russian Authors Organization (RAO), a collective right-management organization, sued OOO Yug-Art, a Russian company that had organized in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, a concert of Deep Purple, a legendary English rock band. RAO demanded from Yug-Art compensation for “unauthorized pubic performance” of songs copyrighted by Ian Gillan, Roger Glover, Steve Morse, and Ian Paice, on whose behalf RAO allegedly acted. The peculiarity of the case is that on the concert Gillan, Glover, Morse, and Paise (the Deep Purple members) performed their own songs themselves. Nevertheless, the court agreed that the performance was indeed “unauthorized.” RAO won the award of 450,000 rubles (cr. $15,000, or $1,000 per song). http://russian-law.livejournal...

It's only those damn Russians are doing this, all other countries are saint.

Excluded middle much? Other countries may be doing this — or planning to catch-up — but Russia has been doing this on massive scale for many years — all the while, in a classic fit of projection, accusing others of it.

Another difference is, the US, for example, may consider such propaganda a war-fighting tool to be used outside, but Putin's regime — according to TFA — is happy to use it to prop the government domestically.

Then, I suppose, for knuckle-dragging simpletons happy to equate Joe McCarthy with Lavrenty Beria, none of the above makes any difference...

Actually, they may even have the money. They just have to put Yakunin in jail and get back what he stole -- for himself, and for his boss. http://navalny-en.livejournal....

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http://anholt.livejournal.com/

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When things are wrong, you don't want to see the recent log events to diagnose what went wrong?

It's a legit complaint if this display slows you down, but I'm amazed that you are so hostile to the idea. However, as a sysadmin I'm just a dilettante so I will defer to your expertise.

Citation needed? I seem to remember that X could also run as non-root before systemd.

http://hansdegoede.livejournal.com/14268.html

The main problem with systemd is that it is beeing pushed onto and by the mayor distributions without fixing the problems first.

Makes sense to me. I'm glad that Debian did the work to leave SystemD as optional.

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Eventual consistency means that the computer eventually computes the right answer if its quiescent long enough. Intermediate values, though, are an approximation, which is often enough.

One example that Paul McKinney gives is of a distributed counters built out of per-CPU counters, and CPU-to-CPU events saying how much to update the total by. (Let's assume positive counts only.)

Each CPU will see update events from other CPUs in different orders, each saying how much to update the count by. All CPUs will eventually see all updates. So, the total seen by any given CPU might differ from the true total in the short run (and may not even be a technically valid total given the original source of events, since events get reordered), but eventually all of the counters will converge on the same total if updates stop pouring in. Also, the totals are still locally monotonic.

If you required all CPUs to see the same sequence of updates to the count, then you have to take locks and serialize memory accesses, which on a manycore system is an expensive operation that simply doesn't scale well. But, if you relax the constraint to "eventual consistency" and "monotonic updates", then each core can have its local approximation that isn't too far from the real value, knowing that each core is no further from the true value than the backlog of events yet to arrive.

That's an extremely reasonable model for many types of data.