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  1. Actually it'll be the Journalism File System v2 (JFS), though not the GPLed Linux fork.

  2. Re:OS/2 to be ported to AMD's ARM... on OS/2-Based 'Arcanos 5.0' Has Finally Been Releas -- Oh Wait, No It Wasn't. Never Mind. (arcanoae.com) · · Score: 1

    Does give access to memory above 4GB, though only as a RAM disk currently and has Odin, mostly based on WINE. Flash is the Win32 binary and OpenJava is recompiled Win32 code.

  3. Re:Disjunction between headline and text on This is Why Australia Hasn't Had a Recession in Over 25 Years (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Depends on what you call artificial. Some are heated by methane from cow manure and some are heated by wood waste. Most winters there aren't many nights when they need heat here on the wet coast. Without the green houses we can still fall back on the Brassica crops as well as things like apples that keep. Note also that where I am, California is considered local as it's closer then the further parts of the province.
    I'd imagine that much of your food production depends on artificial sources of water.

  4. Re:Quick questions on This is Why Australia Hasn't Had a Recession in Over 25 Years (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Most countries went into debt to deal with the US triggered recession, only America was/is in a position to fire up the printing presses to print trillions of dollars without massive inflation, and also to borrow even more trillions. America could easily pay back its debt and/or spend on infrastructure if they didn't stupidly cut taxes regularly. And why should other countries pay for Americas stupidity in deregulating their banks? My countries banks were regulated well enough that they didn't cause the banking crisis and according to the above posts, same with Australia's.
    It's up to America to fix their problem of not being able to manage their money/economy. The trick is to save when things are going good instead of slacking off, but the rest of the world notices that you've once again elected the money/economy miss managers whose plan to pay off the debt is to increase military spending along with infrastructure spending and cut taxes.

  5. Re:Disjunction between headline and text on This is Why Australia Hasn't Had a Recession in Over 25 Years (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Canada is easily self sufficient in food, we just have to not export quite as much, though without imports, not as much variety. Our greenhouses do allow food production all year round for fresh veggies in the winter.

  6. Re:Tradeoffs on 'No Turning Back' on Brexit as Article 50 Triggered (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    A lot of the rules and regulations that make the news are actually fake. One example was a lady who was going to vote stay until she went into a store, saw some curvy bananas, got pissed at the banana regulation and decided to vote to leave.
    Only problem was that there wasn't any banana curvature regulation.
    Repeat various BS such as this enough along with the financial BS and immigration BS and you have quite a few people voting for fake reasons'
    It's a real problem without any solution, hanging out here you see that even being smart and educated means fuckall when it comes to be influenced by propaganda. The other problem is having such an important decision decided by 50%+1. Most countries make it hard to make changes on the Constitutional level.

  7. Re:Speaking of Canadian Trash on 'No Turning Back' on Brexit as Article 50 Triggered (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    The quote is "An armed society is a polite society." Well done getting it exactly backwards.

    I'm basing it on observations. Is America known as a polite society? Is Canada known as a polite society?

  8. Re:Speaking of Canadian Trash on 'No Turning Back' on Brexit as Article 50 Triggered (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    So what you are saying is that because some American came to Canada to leach off our medical system and discovered Timmies and took it home with them it is our fault?
    Your country is the weird one that thinks freedom consists of being able to own people, practice being impolite (as they say, an armed population is an impolite one) and basically shit on your fellow citizens.

  9. Re:Europe is the one that should be scared. on 'No Turning Back' on Brexit as Article 50 Triggered (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Sounds like the grenade attacks are being done by organized criminals from Eastern Europe, as usual. Not surprising as it is the same where I live, various criminal gangs from various Eastern European countries including Russia at war with each other with the difference that they have grenades in Sweden instead of firearms here.
    It's weird that you call Eastern Europeans a group that can't integrate into Europe when by definition they are European. Or perhaps you've been listening to too much propaganda?

  10. In Virginia it is a felony to wear a mask in public.

    Land of the free.

  11. Re:Uh, why? on A 21st-Century Version Of OS/2 Warp May Be Released Soon (arcanoae.com) · · Score: 1

    Compared to the OS/2 VDM, NTVDM is pretty limited. No hardware access, I don't think you can even run any DOS besides the included DOS 5 whereas on OS/2 you can run most any DOS though there are limits like no long file name support due to the OS catching disk access and using the OS/2 disk system, which was the reason back in the day that DOS and Win3.1 was faster on OS/2 then native, better disk access including the file system, currently JFS.

  12. Re:Uh, why? on A 21st-Century Version Of OS/2 Warp May Be Released Soon (arcanoae.com) · · Score: 1

    You could run CPM/86 in an OS/2 VDM if you desired. I used to run Minix in a VDM.

  13. Re: Uh, why? on A 21st-Century Version Of OS/2 Warp May Be Released Soon (arcanoae.com) · · Score: 2

    Warp v4+ requires 16 MBs of ram and a 486DX with many current programs requiring an i686.
    I ran Warp v3 on a 386 with 4MBs of ram that eventually became a 486slc with 8 MBs. It ran fine once you stripped it down (no WPS).
    Today, there are memory problems. Run Firefox, Thunderbird and OpenOffice and ram will get fragmented forcing a reboot every few days. Run older programs and lots of people report long up times.
    49 days after OS/2 2.0 was released, the bug reports came flowing in, OS/2 couldn't handle the up time counter overflowing and it was fixed shortly after. For comparison, it took years for someone to keep Win95 up long enough to find the similar bug.

  14. Re:Uh, why? on A 21st-Century Version Of OS/2 Warp May Be Released Soon (arcanoae.com) · · Score: 1

    Dosbox is slow and doesn't allow access to hardware, good for games but not much else. DOS (and Winos2) on OS/2 runs in ring 2 and will allow most device drivers to run like on bare metal. You can also run each Win3.1 program in its own process, side by side on the desktop and communicate between them much like if they were running in the same process.
    There are problems with some graphic cards on modern hardware as the video driver depends on the VESA bios, which seems to be going away.

  15. Re:Here's the actual problem, on US Ordered 'Mandatory Social Media Check' For Visa Applicants Who Visited ISIS Territory (theverge.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Admission of non-citizens into the US is not a right and is not subject to due process. Non-citizens can be denied entry for arbitrary reasons, not just in the US but also in all other countries on the planet.

    On the other hand, the US signed a treaty (actually a couple) that says my wife and son, both not citizens of the USA, can wander into the USA any time they want. According to the American Constitution, treaties are the second highest law of the land, just below the Constitution. Of course America being America, all it takes is a Supreme Court Justice to say, "no, the Constitution actually means something else" and America has a long history of breaking their own laws and especially treaties. Probably the reason they dropped the u out of honour.
    Through other treaties and such, my son also has the right to go to a few other countries as well.

  16. Re:Leveling the playing field on Canada To Tax Ride-Sharing Providers Like Uber (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    Some good points, the counter point is that all the other businesses have to do the same so why should business people contracting with Uber be exempt?
    At least they have the advantage that (I assume) the app takes care of most of the paper work and I assume an electronic receipt is good enough.

  17. Re:If it moves, tax it... if it... on Canada To Tax Ride-Sharing Providers Like Uber (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 2

    Just because Regan governed that way and Americans loved it, doesn't mean other governments act the same. Just looking at how he used capitalization shows how his mind didn't operate.

  18. Re:Leveling the playing field on Canada To Tax Ride-Sharing Providers Like Uber (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    It's GST, sales tax on services. The Uber driver won't be paying it unless they lower their fares so the customers pay the same as before, they just collect it.
    If the drivers are smart, they'll register themselves as a business, get a tax number, and get reimbursed for whatever GST they pay for business purposes, things like gas, vehicle maintenance along with the vehicle, clothes, phones etc. Might actually come out ahead.

  19. Re:Uber is right on Canada To Tax Ride-Sharing Providers Like Uber (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    There's a lot of money earmarked towards building public transit in the budget.

  20. Re:Yes, "line rental" is for POTS on Elderly 'Hit by Line Rental Charges' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    My pots line lasts about 8 hours when the power goes out. Yay deregulation here in Canada.

  21. Re:clearly the truckers are right on Lack of Oxford Comma Could Cost Maine Company Millions in Overtime Dispute (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Look again and consider how the Constitution has been interpreted, especially the Bill of Rights. Start with the 1st amendment which clearly says that "Congress will make no laws" about speech and how the courts say, actually they meant no laws about political speech. Congress making laws that throw people in jail for speaking secrets is fine as they obviously didn't mean "no laws". Move on to the 2nd, which is also really clear, "The people have the right to bear arms" becomes, "Honest sane god fearing white Americans have the right to bear arms", because that is what the founders really meant. The there is the Interstate commerce clause.
    There is actual need for it in common law, laws are often too general and left to the courts to figure out and laws often conflict and are left to the courts to figure out. Common law actually gives the judiciary a lot of law making powers (look at contract law sometime), even if so many people think it should work like a civil law jurisdiction.

  22. Re:age 30 is old and $60K is "wealthy" on Ebook Pirates Are Relatively Old and Wealthy, Study Finds (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Well Haiti is a good comparison as that is what our billionaire overlords have planned for us. Remember how much better off the average Haitian is compared to the average Cuban. None of that horrible free medical care, even lower wages then the average Cuban but if they can pay, they do get Internet and in theory, they can lift themselves up by their bootstraps and join the rich. They're allowed to bitch more as well, which proves they're free.

    Never understood the average person voting for the aristocracy (billionaires in the US) and thinking they're actually going to help them.

  23. Yes, originally I said,

    Once they remove legacy BIOS support from the latest boxes (probably soon), no more running DOS on new bare hardware.

    I expect that BIOS legacy mode will go away at some point, possibly due to pressure from MS, though I hope to be wrong.
    I noticed that the latest Intel CPU's no longer support VGA mode and probably VESA in the video BIOS or perhaps the whole video BIOS as legacy support is being reduced and in the brave new world of only running Win 10 that MS envisions, legacy modes are just excess baggage.

  24. Interesting, how does DOS make BIOS calls?

  25. It's not the 90s anymore, there are actual reasons why we need to continue to move forward

    Such as?