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  1. The caption should have read... on We're All Getting Dumber, Says Science (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 2

    "Norwegians are getting dumber"

  2. Re:Sad times indeed on How Microsoft's Windows Red Team Keeps PCs Safe (wired.com) · · Score: 1, Funny

    It is now official. Netcraft has confirmed: *BSD is dying One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered *BSD community when IDC confirmed that *BSD market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last [samag.com] in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test. You don't need to be the Amazing Kreskin [amazingkreskin.com] to predict *BSD's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD because *BSD is dying. Things are looking very bad for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood. FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time FreeBSD developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: FreeBSD is dying. Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers. OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts. Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house. All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. *BSD continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD is dead.

  3. It is now official. Netcraft has confirmed: *BSD is dying One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered *BSD community when IDC confirmed that *BSD market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last [samag.com] in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test. You don't need to be the Amazing Kreskin [amazingkreskin.com] to predict *BSD's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD because *BSD is dying. Things are looking very bad for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood. FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time FreeBSD developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: FreeBSD is dying. Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers. OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts. Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house. All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. *BSD continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD is dead.

  4. Yawn, yawn, yawn.

  5. Re:There is no transit crisis. on Why New York City Stopped Building Subways (citylab.com) · · Score: 1

    Too crowded for me. I have 2 acres, with very good neighbors 200 feet away and 120 foot Ponderosa pines all around.

  6. Re:Nothing about corruption? on Why New York City Stopped Building Subways (citylab.com) · · Score: 1

    You seem to have a firm grasp of the obvious.

  7. Re: Any signs of changing the way police operates? on Jailed Kansas 'Swat' Perpetrator Sneaks Online, Threatens More 'Swats' (kansas.com) · · Score: 1

    " Cops do not wake up with the ideal, "Hey I'm going to go shoot someone." Yeah, but they do wake up with the ideal, "I'm gonna do whatever it takes today to make sure that I get home safe tonight".

  8. Re:Make up your mind already on A Coal Power Plant is Being Reopened For Blockchain Mining (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Marx encouraged capitalist adventures that financed and grew communism.

  9. Because CPU's aren't made from sand. They are made from monocrystal silicon, high purity aluminum, highly toxic gases like silane, and a dozen other highly pure and hard to handle ingredients. Besides, what *can* nano-machines build?

  10. Yes, fabbing a chip is somewhere between expensive and astronomical. OTOH, you can design your own medium size CPU and program it into a FPGA for $1000. Or a small one into a CPLD for $100. So yeah, you can build a working CPU in your home. Just not 1000 of them.

  11. Let me ask you this. How, exactly, does Arm control their intellectual property? Surely the basic patents must have expired, and reverse engineering can't be that hard, given all that's known about their architecture. And I think it was established years ago that you can't copyright an instruction set.

  12. And it's sad... on Say Goodbye To the Information Age: It's All About Reputation Now (aeon.co) · · Score: 0

    That the reputation of Slashdot, it's mods and it's commenters is so low that the whole system is nearly useless.

  13. With that much money... on California Bullet Train Costs Soar To $77.3 Billion, Will Take 5 Years Longer To Complete · · Score: 1

    California could buy and distribute 155 million $50 airline tickets.

  14. Spring Creators Edition... on Windows 10's Next Update Will Be Called 'Spring Creators Update' (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    How fucking festive is that?

  15. Re:That's the trouble with you Americans on Occupational Licensing Blunts Competition and Boosts Inequality (economist.com) · · Score: 2

    It takes about the same amount of time to become an airline pilot as it does to become a fully licensed air conditioning technician in my state.

  16. Re:I don't have anything to do with FreeBSD... on FreeBSD's New Code of Conduct (freebsd.org) · · Score: 1

    More correctly, you can terminate an employee for *NO* reason, not *ANY* reason. There's a big difference.

  17. God, I wished I had mod points for this...

  18. What the fuck are we supposed to do with that? on Your Phone May Send You 'Blue Alerts' To Warn You When Local Police Are In Danger (androidpolice.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Grab our rifles and come help. No future to that.

  19. Re:What happened to backup generators? on Power Outage Strands Thousands at US Airport. 600 Flights Cancelled (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    They don't need backup generators for this kind of fault. Just a second main power feed from the grid. There's plenty of power in the city of Atlanta, just no way to get it to the airport.

  20. Having nothing more important on their plate... on Hitler Quote Controversy In the BSD Community · · Score: 1

    They have to muck with politically insensitive shit that's been around for decades.

  21. Can someone please explain? on Linux Now Has its First Open Source RISC-V Processor (designnews.com) · · Score: 1

    The article says RISC-V supports Linux. I always assumed an operating systems supports the processor. Not the other way around.

  22. That the body positive movement is the one out of step with the rest of the world?

  23. You can't just change the color on UCF Research Could Bring 'Drastically' Higher Resolution To Your Phone and TV (ucf.edu) · · Score: 1

    You need to change the brightness of the color as well. Using the voltage to change the color would meant that you can't use it to change the brightness, which is the way current LCD's work.

  24. Imagine what you could do with a Beowolf Cluster of these...

  25. PAL3 Assembler on Slashdot Asks: What Was Your First Programming Language? (stanforddaily.com) · · Score: 1

    For a DEC PDP 8. Paper tape-based, two pass. Followed quickly by FOCAL and BASIC.