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  1. Re:Alternate Theory on Sugar-Free Products Might Actually Stop Us From Getting Slimmer (dw.com) · · Score: 1

    Another question is if the mice that where getting the high-fat diet where eating a surplus of calories or not, because if they did then all this study tells us that overeating while drinking diet sodas is worse than just overeating (which in itself is bad). The stupid article does however not link to the actual study.

  2. Re:Yes, but it doesn't matter on Lawrence Lessig Calls For The Electoral College to Choose Clinton Over Trump (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Of course they don't stop the counting. The ballots carry far more information than Hillary vs Trump so they have all to be counted in order to count all the other issues in the election. It's just that counting all these ballots takes time so the 100% final result will not be known for some time yet (they have until the 19th of December to count all ballots) at which point the complete result of _all_ ballots will be displayed on http://www.fec.gov/pubrec/elec...

  3. According to my IRC logs I experienced this on Sep 5 2016. I might not have been using the latest systemd at the time, alas I don't recall the version number^W^Wmeaningless integer that is in the 300s now.

    Fair enough, however looking at the code history in github it appears that systemctl has returned a non-zero exit code since before v44 which was released in 2013, the test I did above was from v229 which was released in february (which is the current version in Ubuntu 16.04). Could be that there have been some buggy intermittent version released or course but I don't know if either of us is upset enough to compile each and every version by hand to find out which version it possibly happens in.

    Look, If you had bothered to read carefully, I said "whenever possible". Please, do tell, why do your customers ask you to run systemd on your servers?

    Nowhere did I write that they demanded systemd, that was a mere comment on your mature-software-only rant. Another question of course is how you can consider systemd to be new and shiny, the first stable release was 6 years ago.

    You probably shouldn't, since this isn't based on your appearance but on the content of your statements.

    So you cannot even take a simply yoke without degenerating to insults again, it's so nice to talk with you anti-systemd people really!

    Well I have very fond memories about Linux, given that it was my stepping stone into unix, and BSD in particular. Seeing it go down the shitter does make me mad, occasionally, even though I could technically ignore it. To put it in more accessible terms, think of having to watch your first own car getting crushed. Kind of that feeling.

    For me it's the complete opposite, with systemd I feel that Linux finally have something great in terms of deamon/service management out of the box instead of having to build a house of cards using slippery scripts that can break at random (just look at the mess that is mysqld_safe that where created in order to provide some of the things that systemd provides but with sysvinit and how it can break completely due to it being a script [and thus having to rely on pids and pidfiles). Put simply it's the best thing that I have seen happening to Linux since I started to use it back in 1997.

    You obviously feel complete different about it and that is all fine and dandy, I have no mission to "convert your" or force you to like something that you don't and not every one can like or dislike the same things (what a bland world we would live in otherwise), I would just hope that some day people like me can make non-negative comments about things like systemd without being personally attacked with name calling, mud slinging and so on (note that this is not 100% directed at you, every time that I make a comment about systemd on Slashdot and where I'm not conveying something negative I get a complete shit storm of insults from random users).

  4. Of course things can change, but you wrote "recently" and not "several years ago". And of course there will be something new and shiny to put into production, when customers demand new functionality we do not have the luxury that you apparently have to tell them that they have to wait a decade or more for the new code to mature. If we did then we would not exist as a company any more since all would flee to the competition.

    Who will eat who for breakfast I have no idea and frankly no interest either, you where the one that started to sling the insults around (PFY [and it was over 30 years ago that I was a PFY so to be honest I don't know if I should be flattered instead ;)] 5 years experience and so forth) which is typical for the anti-systemd trolls on Slashdot. Why you cannot simply declare that you prefer something else without slinging insults around is a fascinating although disturbing thing.

  5. Well there's a big WHOOSH coming, either for you or me. Only time will tell :)

  6. Your observation does not match mine:

    f.ultra@ubuntu:~$ sudo systemctl disable ff
    [sudo] password for f.ultra:
    Failed to execute operation: No such file or directory
    henrik@ubuntu:~$ echo $?
    1

    I take it that you do understand that a return code of 1 is a failure and not success even though you sound like a noob.

  7. Windows I don't know, have not used that in over 17 years now. Systemd however works so much better than either sysvinit or upstart for all my home computers, all the workstations at work and on all the servers at work, so there I do not follow.

  8. Well for one they are older than systemd so still no explanation, and systemd works just fine thank you.

  9. Re:Those who would trade sex for security... on Nearly 40% of Americans Would Give Up Sex For Better Online Security, Survey Finds (huffingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Depends on if you succumb to premature ejaculation, the latency of tor would kill the mood right there.

  10. Re:Those who would trade sex for security... on Nearly 40% of Americans Would Give Up Sex For Better Online Security, Survey Finds (huffingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    What about secure sex?

  11. Doesn't explain my two children, and no we have no mailman here.

  12. Re:Barcodes are data - not a database on Walmart Tests Blockchain For Use In Food Recalls (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    That is assuming that IBM will build a distributed public blockchain for Walmart when the truth is probably that this will all be a hosted server by IBM for Walmart that no one else will get access to. So blockchain is just a magic word here, there is nothing that makes this easier to do with a blockchain than with a traditional database.

  13. Re:Much more than barcodes on Walmart Tests Blockchain For Use In Food Recalls (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Exactly the same place where the blockchain will be, hosted by IBM for Walmart. Or did you think that they would somehow make it public ala bitcoin?

  14. Re:What? on Walmart Tests Blockchain For Use In Food Recalls (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    And in the real world every one in the supply chain have to report the logs to either Walmart or IBM, there will most certainly be no decentralized thing about it at all.

  15. Re:Barcodes are data - not a database on Walmart Tests Blockchain For Use In Food Recalls (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    Sounds like you think that they are going to print out the whole block chain on the actual package. Most likely they will use a *gasp* barcode on the package as the id to reference the package in the block chain.

  16. Re:Much more than barcodes on Walmart Tests Blockchain For Use In Food Recalls (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Of course you can, you use the number from the bar code as the id for the database where all these logs are held. A blockchain will not change anything at all regarding this, the package still needs to have a barcode as the id for the blockchain so the barcode is still a must.

  17. Re:Google should use the USPS Change Of Address db on Android User Locked Out Of Google Accounts After Moving To A New City (itwire.com) · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't that be one of the first places a real identity thief would change your address?

  18. Re:Isn't the 4.7.x Kernel End-of-Life ? on Debian GNU/Linux 9 'Stretch' Installer Gets GNU Screen, Linux Kernel 4.7 Support (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    EOL from upstream yes, Debian will maintain it perfectly well themselves.

  19. Re:Serious he missed the 2 biggest problems I've h on 'Here Be Dragons': The Seven Most Vexing Problems In Programming (infoworld.com) · · Score: 0

    Still not "programming problems", they are project management problems. You are going to be hit by them as a programmer but that is not due to your programming but because someone at management screwed up.

  20. You're a funny one aren't you :-)

  21. Re:Not a good idea... on Judge Refuses To Block New York 'Ballot Selfie' Law (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    It's about return of interest. WIth no way to get a proof either way you would be a complete moron to invest billions into bought votes. With a selfie, even with the possibility of people spoiling the ballot and casting another one you know that the vast majority of people will not (due to human nature) which all of the sudden makes the investment much more sane and predictable. You don't need 100% success rate, but you do not want a 100% failure rate.

  22. Re:Is this a record? on Teenager Accidentally Launches DDoS Attack On 911 Systems (softpedia.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    A lot of our infrastructure relies on people being honest, and it actually works most of the time. Call the police, fire department or ambulance enough times and you will DDoS all of them since there are a limited number of such units to send.

  23. If you are anti vaccinations in 2016 you are an idiot regardless of language or spelling skills.

  24. Re:First Post on Satya Nadella: 'We Clearly Missed the Mobile Phone' (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    At tossing chairs or performing stupid dances?

  25. or "big shocker" it might indicate that you are speaking with a non native English speaker. Is the sky falling yet? Or are you one of those anti-vaxxers that now also believe that spelling errors leads to autism and cancer ;)