Congratulation, you are severely misinformed, and everything you said is wrong.
X11 has a lot of cruft that is no longer used because it was moved to different layers -- for example, it supports display-side (server-side in X terminology) bitmap font rendering while modern toolkits use application-side (client-side for X) rendering that implements antialiased fonts. While this is a design flaw, the solution is to either not to use the old system (what all modern software already does) or add a new font rendering system if it is warranted (what may be a good idea but hardly a priority for anything). Same applies to most of X cruft.
Separately from anything stands X protocol with its excessive "chattiness". But all "alternatives to X" propose to drop the protocol completely and instead use direct function calls -- the chattiest thing that was ever created! After such a change, it would be impossible to add any remote functionality other than crude "hey, I am drew something, let's update the whole bitmap, and oh, compositing is already applied using MY screen layout!" mechanism. It's a huge step back.
Modern X servers support accelerated 3D just fine. There are even multiple ways to implement it, with 3D being implemented either local to application or local to the display.
It's not legitimate at all. No one uses Hyper-V other but by mistake, or out of loyalty to Microsoft. Microsoft is trying to legitimize the use of its product at the expense of running Linux properly, and sabotages "Linux systems" that are built under virtualization.
You can't possibly generate an exploit-triggering SQL statement unless you either have exploit-triggering expression hardcoded in your code (and then your software is sabotaged already, and any discussion of its security is moot) or applications converts input into constants that are used to generate SQL statements (what the practice you are trying to besmirch, explicitly disallows).
You lack basic understanding of application security, and should never talk about any such subjects ever again.
Brian Proffitt has a long history of Fox News-style articles with idiotic "questions" he is trying to attach to open source developers and open source software in general. This is clearly one of them.
I am not a "zealot for hate", I merely hate you and religious, willfully ignorant people like yourself. Despite common (and very useful for politicians) cultural formulas, hatred is a perfectly valid thing to have, and you richly deserve it.
religion of evolution
You do not seem to recognize that there is a reason to consider anything to be true other than blind faith. Your brain is defective, so I recommend to hurry up with getting rid of it.
I thought the reason it wasn't available on Linux was that Xorg simply didn't support hot-swapping of GPUs.
No. Nvidia itself supports power management on its GPUs, and there is no actual hot-swapping involved, Nvidia GPU is simply turned on and off whenever needed while the rest is done by constantly running Intel GPU. There is even Bumblebee -- an open source Optimus support that uses either proprietary Nvidia drivers or open source Noveau underneath, however without Nvidia being involved it only works on some devices. The only reason why Optimus is not universally supported under Linux is Nvidia's refusal to do so.
My teacher didn't tell us to ignore anything. We had to learn and understand.
It's teacher's duty to teach basic things such as nature of reality.
An philosophical scientist understands that experiments and observations may be misleading as our eyes and ears have limitations and may be just plain being fooled (as in The Matrix).
And once you demonstrate that they are misleading, you can't even tell people to consider such possibility.
...there are also things like Hooke's Law, that never were seen as anything but approximation. "Law" in science means anything that describes relationship between observable parameters. They may reflect a theory that explains why and how the relationship is caused, but just as well they may be summaries of observations that await explanation.
Because marriage has nothing to do with religion, it's religion that made some stupid ceremony on top of completely secular ideas of family and monogamy.
That's complete and undiluted bullshit. USSR economy worked as a huge nonprofit, building weapons was just as "expensive" as building civilian products. For this to have any impact on economy, the amount of military production would have to strip civilian cities from population.
Actually, that should be "believed". The shield doesn't have to work to provoke a nuclear war -- it's sufficient that people who make decisions believe it to be effective. Beyond that, it could just as well be an Angry Birds style slingshot.
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Congratulation, you are severely misinformed, and everything you said is wrong.
X11 has a lot of cruft that is no longer used because it was moved to different layers -- for example, it supports display-side (server-side in X terminology) bitmap font rendering while modern toolkits use application-side (client-side for X) rendering that implements antialiased fonts. While this is a design flaw, the solution is to either not to use the old system (what all modern software already does) or add a new font rendering system if it is warranted (what may be a good idea but hardly a priority for anything). Same applies to most of X cruft.
Separately from anything stands X protocol with its excessive "chattiness". But all "alternatives to X" propose to drop the protocol completely and instead use direct function calls -- the chattiest thing that was ever created! After such a change, it would be impossible to add any remote functionality other than crude "hey, I am drew something, let's update the whole bitmap, and oh, compositing is already applied using MY screen layout!" mechanism. It's a huge step back.
The way how OS X and Windows "support" X11, I wouldn't wish on anything to be supported anywhere.
Oh yes, it is!
The above is completely wrong.
Modern X servers support accelerated 3D just fine.
There are even multiple ways to implement it, with 3D being implemented either local to application or local to the display.
Same would apply to radium toothpaste.
It's not legitimate at all. No one uses Hyper-V other but by mistake, or out of loyalty to Microsoft. Microsoft is trying to legitimize the use of its product at the expense of running Linux properly, and sabotages "Linux systems" that are built under virtualization.
No.
You can't possibly generate an exploit-triggering SQL statement unless you either have exploit-triggering expression hardcoded in your code (and then your software is sabotaged already, and any discussion of its security is moot) or applications converts input into constants that are used to generate SQL statements (what the practice you are trying to besmirch, explicitly disallows).
You lack basic understanding of application security, and should never talk about any such subjects ever again.
I propose to perform the next experiment on /b/.
Then maybe we will be able to continue this thread there.
Brian Proffitt has a long history of Fox News-style articles with idiotic "questions" he is trying to attach to open source developers and open source software in general. This is clearly one of them.
why you are such a zealot for hate
I am not a "zealot for hate", I merely hate you and religious, willfully ignorant people like yourself. Despite common (and very useful for politicians) cultural formulas, hatred is a perfectly valid thing to have, and you richly deserve it.
religion of evolution
You do not seem to recognize that there is a reason to consider anything to be true other than blind faith. Your brain is defective, so I recommend to hurry up with getting rid of it.
Brian Proffitt should shut up and stop trying to manufacture some kind of controversy over absolutely nothing controversial or even notable.
I thought the reason it wasn't available on Linux was that Xorg simply didn't support hot-swapping of GPUs.
No. Nvidia itself supports power management on its GPUs, and there is no actual hot-swapping involved, Nvidia GPU is simply turned on and off whenever needed while the rest is done by constantly running Intel GPU. There is even Bumblebee -- an open source Optimus support that uses either proprietary Nvidia drivers or open source Noveau underneath, however without Nvidia being involved it only works on some devices. The only reason why Optimus is not universally supported under Linux is Nvidia's refusal to do so.
My life is an acceptable price to pay for getting rid of the idiots like yourself.
My teacher didn't tell us to ignore anything. We had to learn and understand.
It's teacher's duty to teach basic things such as nature of reality.
An philosophical scientist understands that experiments and observations may be misleading as our eyes and ears have limitations and may be just plain being fooled (as in The Matrix).
And once you demonstrate that they are misleading, you can't even tell people to consider such possibility.
...there are also things like Hooke's Law, that never were seen as anything but approximation. "Law" in science means anything that describes relationship between observable parameters. They may reflect a theory that explains why and how the relationship is caused, but just as well they may be summaries of observations that await explanation.
Congress shall also make no laws prohibiting the free exercise of any religion,
COOL!!! Now I can exercise my religion of Violent Oppression of Idiots, that requires its follower to kill an idiot every day!
Because marriage has nothing to do with religion, it's religion that made some stupid ceremony on top of completely secular ideas of family and monogamy.
Something may be human and alive, yet does not constitute a human life. For example, preserved blood.
Now go, break your stupid mind on this, and don't forget to kill yourself shortly after realizing how stupid you are.
The whole point of reality is that it is not optional. It's immoral to teach people to ignore the truth, therefore what your teacher did was evil.
I am God.
Kill all your friends, then yourself.
Optimus is THE ONLY CURRENTLY PRODUCED GRAPHICS ADAPTER that is not supported on Linux by its vendor and without a functional open source driver.
from population
Should be "of population".
That's complete and undiluted bullshit. USSR economy worked as a huge nonprofit, building weapons was just as "expensive" as building civilian products. For this to have any impact on economy, the amount of military production would have to strip civilian cities from population.
knew
Actually, that should be "believed". The shield doesn't have to work to provoke a nuclear war -- it's sufficient that people who make decisions believe it to be effective. Beyond that, it could just as well be an Angry Birds style slingshot.