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  1. Re:Rock solid so far - really like it on Ubuntu 15.04 Received Well By Linux Community · · Score: 2

    It's like you read all the "how to make a good bug report" articles and decided to do the opposite.

  2. Re:Systemd and Gnome3 == no thanks on Ubuntu 15.04 Received Well By Linux Community · · Score: 1

    Enjoy your quiche.

  3. Re:The 30 and 40-somethings wrote the code... on Recruiters Use 'Digital Native' As Code For 'No Old Folks' · · Score: 2

    Fuck, I was born in 1959, started programming in 1977, bought my first micro in 1980.

    Pah for lawns, snotnosed "digital natives" can get off my prairie.

  4. Re:Most Linux distros ship with malware by default on Unnoticed For Years, Malware Turned Linux Servers Into Spamming Machines · · Score: 1

    What's falacious? You haven't seen the trolls I've described? You deny that their ideas are insane?

  5. Re:Did Diamond Lil fart in the nunnery? on NASA Gets Its Marching Orders: Look Up! Look Out! · · Score: 1

    Climate records from the unredacted data show an entirely different picture. We're on the rising edge of a cycle of temperature swings. The rising side of a long, 800 year cycle on top of a shorter and shallower 220-year cycle

    Mathturbation. Where's your physical model.

    Someone clearly forgot about the little hiccup called the Industrial Revolution

    WTF?

    nd that annoying white blob called the Sun which itself exhibits wild temperature variations of upwards of +/-1500C at the photosphere?

    Please demonstrate a correlation between any solar parameter and the current temperature trends. Remember -- no causation without correlation.

  6. Splendid, and you will pay the absurd amounts of money necessary to keep him shuttling between the courts, prison and probation for the rest of his life.

    American justice -- the second biggest demonstration of the broken window fallacy since Operation Iraqi Freedom.

    So what are the alternatives? Shoot him? Or set him free with a book of matches and some printer paper?

    Slight failure of imagination on your part there.

  7. Splendid, and you will pay the absurd amounts of money necessary to keep him shuttling between the courts, prison and probation for the rest of his life.

    American justice -- the second biggest demonstration of the broken window fallacy since Operation Iraqi Freedom.

  8. Re:Did Diamond Lil fart in the nunnery? on NASA Gets Its Marching Orders: Look Up! Look Out! · · Score: 2

    So in summary, not a paid shill, but a dyed in the wool "climate skeptic". It got cold this winter, so much for global warming huh!

    One liner portrayal of me FAIL. Since we are using an ancient threaded discussion board scarcely evolved from USENET and there is no keyword based contextual linking it takes a diligent effort to find out where someone stands on something, and why. Sometimes it is worth the effort. You have to do a lot of reading. You'd have to follow back in time to discover that I do have a position on the subject that is not as simple as you describe. Usually I just don't mention it.

    Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.
    ~Robert Benchley

    And since your "position on the subject" is the delusional:

    Temperature has not risen.

    you are a dyed in the wool "climate skeptic"

  9. Re:Who installs perl again? on Unnoticed For Years, Malware Turned Linux Servers Into Spamming Machines · · Score: 1

    Uh. more or less everybody?

    (Everybody running a Debian based distro anyway, I don't know if RedHat has perl as a required package).

  10. Re:Most Linux distros ship with malware by default on Unnoticed For Years, Malware Turned Linux Servers Into Spamming Machines · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yes, you're right, anti-systemd people are not all insane, but some of the most vocal of them are.

    (And it's not just good old "I want to marry 12 year old girls" MikeeUSA, there are also the "systemd will eat your ouput" loons, the "systemd is an NSA plot" obsessives, the "systemd is an end run around the GPL" tin-foil hatters...)

  11. Re:Most Linux distros ship with malware by default on Unnoticed For Years, Malware Turned Linux Servers Into Spamming Machines · · Score: 1

    Since when was Russell Coker an official spokesman for Debian?

  12. Re:Which OS has yet to be compromised? on Unnoticed For Years, Malware Turned Linux Servers Into Spamming Machines · · Score: 1, Informative

    I would suspect that some of the OS's that are used in embedded devices (If you really want to call something running an OS embedded.) have been pretty safe.

    Would you?

    https://threatpost.com/lizard-squads-ddos-for-hire-service-built-on-hacked-home-routers/110341

  13. Re:with lazy evaluation on Paul Hudak, Co-creator of Haskell, Has Died · · Score: 1

    Isn't amazing how dumb slashdot has got these days -- I make a joke about lazy evaluation (ok, maybe not a funny joke, but a joke none the less), and some moron mods it "offtopic".

    Offtopic? Don't they even have a clue about what Haskell is?

    Overrated I could understand, troll or flamebait if you think I'm dissing Hudak, but offtopic?

  14. Re:I remember him From Usenet as quite a gentleman on Paul Hudak, Co-creator of Haskell, Has Died · · Score: 2

    The English word for eulogy is eulogy.

    You have a nice word? English will rip it out of your hands.

  15. with lazy evaluation on Paul Hudak, Co-creator of Haskell, Has Died · · Score: 0

    But I can't be arsed to write any more

  16. Re:Didn't the US Navy just announce a similar proc on Audi Creates "Fuel of the Future" Using Just Carbon Dioxide and Water · · Score: 1

    It's horribly inefficient energy-wise and makes no sense to do unless you're stuck in a very particular predicament: You're surrounded by seawater and on really bad terms with all the local jet fuel suppliers, but you happen to have a nuclear reactor handy.

    Or, you've installed massive overcapacity of wind and solar and you don't know what to do with your massive overproduction of electricity on bright windy days.

  17. Re:Not enough resourcees on Audi Creates "Fuel of the Future" Using Just Carbon Dioxide and Water · · Score: 1

    The Poe effect strikes again.

  18. Re:With the best will in the world... on Audi Creates "Fuel of the Future" Using Just Carbon Dioxide and Water · · Score: 1

    Sorry? What remaining 0.29GW? You mean coal?

    At this moment we have:

    Nuclear +43.85GW
    Hydro +6.59GW
    Wind +3.57GW
    Germany +2.46GW
    Solar +1.54GW
    Gas +0.88GW
    Biomass +0.57GW
    Coal +0.29GW
    Oil +0.24GW
    Switzerland -0.05GW
    Spain -1.04GW
    Pumped storage -1.16GW
    Belgium -1.80GW
    UK -2.07GW
    Italy -3.19GW
    Demand -50.42GW

    (That all adds up to 0.26, so there is a bug somewhere in the numbers).

  19. Re:With the best will in the world... on Audi Creates "Fuel of the Future" Using Just Carbon Dioxide and Water · · Score: 2

    Well, no.

    If your neighbour starts selling you electricity for nothing it makes your own plant less profitable, but you have to keep your own plant around because your neighbour is not a reliable resource.

    For example Germany is exporting 2.46GW to France at the moment, but between midnight and 4am it was importing about 2GW of French nuclear because there wasn't much wind.

    Luckily Italy, Belgium and the UK have all made such a balls up of their energy infrastructure we can export to them.

    It's interesting. France seems to have been given the job of keeping everyone on an even keel. Good thing the idiot greens aren't in government.

  20. Re:Oh grow up on Linux 4.1 Bringing Many Changes, But No KDBUS · · Score: 1

    systemd has dozens of zero day remote root exploits

    Name one, boring troll.

  21. Re:KDBus - another systemd brick on the wall on Linux 4.1 Bringing Many Changes, But No KDBUS · · Score: 1

    I think the systemd-opponents are deeply split about this; the BSD-Linux users want OpenRC because that is close to BSD and hates systemd because it means work for BSD, the traditionalists want SysVinit forever "because it isn't broken and systemd doesn't provide new features...". Nobody wants Upstart.

    That wasn't exactly what happened in the Devian CTTE vote though, was it? 4 people wanted systemd, or upstart or even openrc rather than sysvinit. 3 people wanted upstart, or systemd, or openrc rather than sysvinit and one person wanted sysvinit, or anything but systemd.

    Oddly the only person who wanted sysvinit was Ian, who up till then everyone had seen as a pro-upstart Canonical mole.

  22. Re:With the best will in the world... on Audi Creates "Fuel of the Future" Using Just Carbon Dioxide and Water · · Score: 1

    Of course the big question is how efficient is the process? Is it more efficient than just using the electricity to charge up batteries in an electric car for example?

    It doesn't necessarily have to be more efficient than charging batteries -- big tanks to hold fuel are a lot cheaper than batteries.

  23. Re:With the best will in the world... on Audi Creates "Fuel of the Future" Using Just Carbon Dioxide and Water · · Score: 2

    Up till now Germany has been selling it to (among others) France, for almost nothing.

    For example they're currently exporting about 2.5GW to France.

    http://gridwatch.templar.co.uk/france/

  24. Re:With the best will in the world... on Audi Creates "Fuel of the Future" Using Just Carbon Dioxide and Water · · Score: 2, Insightful

    .renewables are going to have their work cut out for themselves just supplying a majority percentage of the power for national electricty grids. I'm not sure where they think the extra renewable power to do this will come from.

    No, the biggest problem with wind in particular is that to get reasonable amounts of energy you have to install large overcapacity.

    Which leads to the problem of what you do with that energy on a windy day.

    Up till now Germany has been selling it to (among others) France, for almost nothing. This is bad for Germany (they get very little money) and bad for France (it makes the nuclear fleet less profitable).

    Making synthetic fuel when you have energy to spare could be a pretty smart storage mechanism.

    Wonder what the efficiency is like though.

  25. Re:Too much noise over SystemD on Debian 8 Jessie Released · · Score: 1

    It wasn't just that you couldn't write to the log, but the entire log was lost.

    Are you sure? This is the most quoted bug about journal corruption: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64116

    I see no sarcasm.