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  1. Re:I don't think he understands trolling on Fake News Prompts Gunman To 'Self-Investigate' Pizza Parlor (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If it wasn't incriminating, then why did they change it when it was exposed

    A) If I found out I accidentally used a pedo logo, I'd change it too.
    B) If I found out alt-right nutjobs were spreading shit around the internet about my shop, I'd get off my ass to change it because I don't want my customers or employees shot by fucking morons like you.

    Seriously, you need to go see a shrink.

  2. Re:"self investigate" == alt.right on Fake News Prompts Gunman To 'Self-Investigate' Pizza Parlor (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    It's agreed this was one nutcase, then.

    "One nutcase" would be a guy picking a random pizza shop for a random reason. This is fake news goading a nutcase. It will probably happen again. We've been trying to warn the right this would be the result of their constant pimping, but they'll do anything to get elected, fuck the consequences.

  3. You will be soon, when Trump betrays you.

  4. Re:Michael Flynn Jr believes it on Fake News Prompts Gunman To 'Self-Investigate' Pizza Parlor (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Why would you? What ever made you think you could trust a doctor with a computer?

    Good point. Wait... then why wold we trust a real estate developer and pyramid marketing purveyor to run a country again?

  5. Re:Spinning even now on Fake News Prompts Gunman To 'Self-Investigate' Pizza Parlor (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    People who actually believe it are in the minority and are simpletons or mentally ill.

    You mean, like this guy?

    http://www.businessinsider.com...

  6. Re: These wackos are cows with guns on Fake News Prompts Gunman To 'Self-Investigate' Pizza Parlor (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    It's the ones in police body armor that suck. Especially in that highly irradiated vault where you have to put on a radiation suit.

  7. Re:I must be out of touch on Dailymotion Hack Exposes Millions of Accounts (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Ah, that explains it. Flash-free here for years now.

  8. I must be out of touch on Dailymotion Hack Exposes Millions of Accounts (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    and is currently the 113rd most visited website in the world, according to Alexa rankings.

    ...never heard of it.

  9. Re: Init alternatives on Devuan's Systemd-Free Linux Hits Beta 2 (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Off you go now ...

    Off to devuan...

    BTW I'm apparently competent enough to patch shit now and then. That shit won't be anything systemd related, so that's one less contributer to your mess. Have fun with that.

  10. Re: Init alternatives on Devuan's Systemd-Free Linux Hits Beta 2 (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    You fail to realize that discoverability is a desireable software attribute, and systemd does not have it.

    I've had very few discoverability problems working in unfamiliar territory before systemd. Mostly, I just had to ferret out the right env flags to stop debug output from being suppressed from within init.d scripts... that was less discoverable than it could have been. On systemd, discoverability is for shit.

  11. Re:Init alternatives on Devuan's Systemd-Free Linux Hits Beta 2 (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    many of the whiners seem to be complaining that they might have to learn something new.

    No, I like learning new things. Learning crappy things that have no reason to be so crappy, however, is not fun, and spending a bunch of time dealing with deficiencies in systemd is not what I like to do with my time. Next time I have a reason to install on something (rare, these days) I'll definitely be checking out devuan.

  12. Re:It's a question of mindsets on Devuan's Systemd-Free Linux Hits Beta 2 (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    For example you now have hugely complex systems just to make sure your soundcard will only be usable by users logged in locally.

    Ironically, trying to work around that to allow a system daemon to use sound was one of the first things that pissed me off against the new session-based model, and in a separate incident, working around the awful stuff that has been done to audio by pulseaudio's session-based mixer management started to sour my stomach on just about anything LP has touched (well OK, prior to all that I did initially get mildly pissed until avahi finally became optional in Debian.) Now I find myself occasionally delayed dealing with systemd crap that would never have been a problem under the previous system.

    It's just funny that example was chosen.

  13. Re: Init alternatives on Devuan's Systemd-Free Linux Hits Beta 2 (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    This has happened to me as well. How did I determine it? By spending an hour figuring out something that would normally take me 5 minutes to figure out.

  14. Re:Init alternatives on Devuan's Systemd-Free Linux Hits Beta 2 (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 3, Informative

    There's tons more *useless* information in the systemd journal, and all the useful logging daemons usually do tends to be turned off by whoever wrote the default service file.

    I really can't see how a system where a failed service doesn't bother to tell you it failed when started by hand from the command-line got anywhere popularity-wise. Seriously. Doing a "systemctll start blah" when blah enters a failed state doesn't say anything different than when blah starts successfully. What. The. Hell.

    Also, I don't appreciate having to learn a bunch of directives only useful inside systemd unit files, named apparently by someone with really bad instincts for naming things. With a shell script, I can see a command being used, and if I do not know it yet, I can read the manpage for it, and here's the trick: I can then use that command for other stuff, not just running daemons.

    Granted systemd is better at "structuring" the init scripts... is you need to manipulate them programmatically that's handy. Almost. Everyone. Does. Not. Need. To.

  15. Re:Crowdsourced Security on Does Windows 10's Data Collection Trade Privacy For Microsoft's Security? (pcworld.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    There is no such thing as a customer anymore, only unpaid beta testers.

  16. Hahah! You have won the Slashdot. Hats off to you.

  17. Well, if naming automotive related companies after famous physicists is a trend, I guess Hertz just lucked back into fashion.

    I wonder what the first... eh.... exciting?.... offering from "Bohr Autos" will look like.

  18. What I got from that ad was that the particular drug causes *permanant* hair loss while other drugs do not, and this side-effect was not mentioned to caregivers/patients so they could factor it into their decision.

    Still a typical ambulance chasing ad, though.

  19. Re:Bad Idea, but that's what Germany is up to now. on Mercedes Unveils Digital Headlights That Project Street Signs, Markings Onto the Road Ahead (newatlas.com) · · Score: 1

    Another prospect once this technology is widespread would be to have side and back-mounted lights that cooperatively light the road for other drivers, which can then dim their own forward facing lights more to reduce even further the glare going into your windshield. Streetlights could get into the act as well.

    I've been of the opinion for a while that really, this technology is where all the attention should be, because its potential for disaster is somewhat less than autonomous vehicles, and it allows the groundwork for autonomous vehicles to be built without putting tons of them on the road before they are really ready.

    One thing though is they should be very aware of what the optimum anatomical response of a human is -- too much variability in the amount of glare might be worse than more glare at a relatively constant intensity, depending on how the eye processes things... so studies in driving simulators would seem merited.

  20. Re: Here come the science deniers on New Study Shows Marijuana Users Have Low Blood Flow To the Brain (eurekalert.org) · · Score: 1

    Oh also:

    I once went to a band-practice

    ..."this one time, at band camp"?

  21. Re: Here come the science deniers on New Study Shows Marijuana Users Have Low Blood Flow To the Brain (eurekalert.org) · · Score: 1

    Lucky dog, he could have died... from the chocolate.

  22. Re:Here come the science deniers on New Study Shows Marijuana Users Have Low Blood Flow To the Brain (eurekalert.org) · · Score: 1

    Arguing with stoners is useless.

    You mean, you tend to lose the arguments.

    Now. Go away.

    Still here. Suck it up, buttercup.

  23. Re:Here come the science deniers on New Study Shows Marijuana Users Have Low Blood Flow To the Brain (eurekalert.org) · · Score: 1

    The truth is nothing really great gets done while stoned

    I would beg to differ. But I will simply point out that nothing really great gets done while skydiving, either, but we don't call people who skydive in their off-time lazy.

  24. Not all articles are supposed to be "serious news" on Trump Will Get Power To Send Unblockable Mass Text Messages To All Americans (nymag.com) · · Score: 1

    This one is obviously for the lark. Have a sense of humor.

  25. Yeah, been there. Still kinda there. Still wondering why managers think it is a good idea to have me half asleep with CLI windows open to mission critical boxes, though I guess in cases where said boxes are actually completely belly up, it might be better than not.