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  1. Re: Coming soon to this thread on Linus Torvalds On Linux's Code of Conduct (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Sorry, you are entitled to your own opinion, but you are not entitled to your own facts.

  2. Re:They will evolve on Robot Lawnmowers Are Killing Hedgehogs (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    But beware, if you've ever seen a Toyota after a moose encounter you'll know that sometimes nature wins.

  3. Re:They have to practice on something on Robot Lawnmowers Are Killing Hedgehogs (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    I call it letting nature take it's course.

  4. Re:Coming soon to this thread on Linus Torvalds On Linux's Code of Conduct (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    That happens when your leader can't bring himself to call a group of people who self-identify as Nazis wrong.

  5. Re: What if the devices are literally "unrepairabl on A 17-Year-Old Has Become Michigan's Leading Right To Repair Advocate (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    That's where the 50% tax on non-repairable hardware comes in. Make a device that doesn't incur the tax and consumers will easily see the benefit of not paying the tax.

  6. Re: What if the devices are literally "unrepairabl on A 17-Year-Old Has Become Michigan's Leading Right To Repair Advocate (vice.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If you believe in the market, someone will want to undercut everyone else and will make a repairable device to do it. If you don't believe in the market, next step is ban the irreparable devices entirely.

  7. My logic is fine, but you could use a little charm school. Also look up ad-hominem. Debate is not a process of name calling after the age of 8 or so. Meanwhile, as debates go, you pulled a no-show.

    later.

  8. Re:What if the devices are literally "unrepairable on A 17-Year-Old Has Become Michigan's Leading Right To Repair Advocate (vice.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Then the right to repair imposes a 50% tax on such devices and suddenly screws and connectors appear in the next version.

  9. And there's the braying again. Bye Bye

  10. Re:What about PDP-8 assembly on Do You Know Cobol? If So, There Might Be a Job for You. (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Yet the PDP-11 lives on. In the '90's and early 2000s in the form of the Osprey, a PDP-11 on a PCI card. Now, software emulators are fast enough.

  11. Re:Seriously? on Do You Know Cobol? If So, There Might Be a Job for You. (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    They may also need to let go of things like expecting people to tie onions to their belt and rags around their neck.

  12. And still no counter to all of the examples where it DOES exactly as I say.

  13. And I then pointed out that the most prominent non-Unix OS still in use has been forced to evolve into a poor copy of Unix, bit by bit. You have been unable to produce even a single counter-example even as a corner case. You still haven't. I also point out that from the perspective of the kernel, the problem hasn't actually changed. You have provided no counter.

    You have, however, managed to bray a few times.

  14. At the least, you take an opposing position, claiming that Unix has not made the OS a solved problem.

    Though I suspect your position is "Must find excuse to be an insulting jackass" based on several of your posts.

  15. Re:What about the birds?! on Mosquitoes Genetically Modified To Crash Species That Spreads Malaria (npr.org) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    That's why they're aiming at a small subset of mosquitos rather than the entire family.

  16. Considering all the places where some flavor of Unix is in use right now, and your inability to name a realistic problem or use case that is better solved by some other OS, yours is the weak position. Even the weakest position on my part wins over your no show.

  17. Re:This shit is dangerous, but government is worse on Wendy's Faces Lawsuit For Unlawfully Collecting Employee Fingerprints (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    It's kinda hard to duck a responsibility that you can not possibly know you have.

    That's my point. Why use a term with a negative connotation when it doesn't apply? Perhaps to shift blame?

    Texas law says he is, because there's no carve-out in the law about biological fathers for sperm donors. The extra kicker is the woman and her wife moved to Texas after having the kid, so even a "don't donate sperm in Texas" plan would have not gotten him around responsibility.

    And there's the wrong. Best bet, don't try to do a good deed as you will surely be punished for it. Even if the law you are under at the time says you're safe.

    As for your item, 2, in other words fall victim to fraud, the court perpetuates the fraud.

    You sound like you're agreeing with me but don't want to. As I said, it's pin the tail on the donkey.

  18. Re:Brace yourselves... on iPhone XS and XS Max Users Are Reporting Poor Cell and Wi-Fi Reception (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    You missed by less than 60 seconds!

  19. Re:This shit is dangerous, but government is worse on Wendy's Faces Lawsuit For Unlawfully Collecting Employee Fingerprints (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    That would be the "skipped town" version in my post. At least according to Texas's laws where that happened. Once.

    Skipping town implies knowingly ducking a responsibility and in the process affirmatively surrendering the right to be a parent. A man specifically told the child isn't theirs hasn't skipped town except in the sophistry of a court playing pin the tail on the donkey.

    A sperm donor was never to be considered the father, it is a simple act that is meant to help couples to have a child where presumably they, not the donor, actually act to create the child and be the responsible parents. There are 49 states other than Texas and it has happened there as well. More pin the tail on the donkey.

    There certainly are cases where an actual father knowingly skips town and there are cases where the father actually can afford the support and is just trying to weasel out, but there are plenty of cases where the courts willfully assume that with facts not in evidence just to save the state a few bucks. Those cases don't end up with the child well supported, they just save the state a few bucks and jail men (possibly the father, possibly not) who don't happen to have the money..

  20. Re:Optimal Busses on MIT's Elegant Schoolbus Algorithm Was No Match For Angry Parents (bostonglobe.com) · · Score: 1

    That fixes that problem, but then you're guaranteeing that the high school's first period is a wasted class since the teens will be walking in their sleep.

    This may just come down to TANSTAAFL. There's a fair chance they can optimize their routes a bit to save some fuel but they probably can't eliminate a bus.

  21. I have presented uncontested evidence that none of that is the case now and hasn't been since Unix was invented.. Note that iOS is also just a tablet environment running on top of BSD. Generations change, but the problems to solve under whatever they prefer as a UI remain the same.

    So what are these mysterious use cases that so thoroughly change the underlying problem the OS must solve so much that Unix as a base is no longer acceptable?

    As a further point, MS has even been forced to take the first baby steps towards separating the GUI from the underlying OS. Whooda Thunkitt?

  22. Re:This shit is dangerous, but government is worse on Wendy's Faces Lawsuit For Unlawfully Collecting Employee Fingerprints (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    That's the theory, but in practice, courts have tapped people for child support when they were just a sperm donor, or when they never signed anything and were flat out told the child wasn't theirs. The courts are also known for demanding child support payments from people who simply don't have the money and never did. Even though if they had married the woman and lived as a family unit, they still wouldn't have the money but would qualify for assistance.

  23. Re:I always suspected this on Thieves Who Stole GPS Tracking Devices Were Caught Within Hours (nbc4i.com) · · Score: 1

    In this case, I'm not sure what they would need a warrant for since they didn't plant the trackers on the suspects and the victim was more than willing to turn over the information needed to read the tracker location.

    As for not shooting people and such, that is a matter of appropriate tactical training and takes no longer than doing it the wrong way. Either way, no warrant is required to do it the right way.

  24. Re:Optimal Busses on MIT's Elegant Schoolbus Algorithm Was No Match For Angry Parents (bostonglobe.com) · · Score: 1

    Perhaps in some places, but not in Boston and not in this day and age. Right or wrong, parents have had trouble with child protective services letting 9 year olds walk any significant distance unsupervised, so 5 is right out.

    When I was 9, I would often be home alone for a couple hours after school, but we also had a neighborhood where there were always a few trustworthy adults home in case of emergency. My parents made sure I knew who they were.

  25. Since we're talking about the parts that are the OS's problem, then the problem is the same. Are you really claiming that there is such an amazing difference between the ARM instruction sat end the x86_64 instruction set that it would affect the whole stack? Perhaps we'd better make sure the user is compatible with the ARM instruction set while we're at it.

    We're talking about the same use cases for the OS as far as mini replaced by PC. Unless you're making a business case that cheaper should == crappier, price point is irrelevant.

    Note how Windows started out as cooperative tasking with no actual protection between processes and has been forced step by step to develop an ad-hoc (and IMHO poor) re-implementation of Unix capabilities one by one over the years.

    It's also notable that Android and Mac OSX both have a Unix kernel at their core.

    Most embedded devices that are big enough to run some variant of Unix 'fine' do so. As time goes on, that Unix variant is increasingly Linux. The ones not big enough to run Unix (for example, devices based on the Atmel AVR) don't run anything that could be called an OS at all.

    For use cases that include hard real time, you end up with either QNX or no OS at all (bare mettal programming), possibly in the form of sub-processors coordinated by a larger processor running Unix. The latter solution is popular for very low latency requirements as well, though in the extreme cases the subprocessor is actually a fixed hardware solution.