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  1. Re:First systemd, now LSB on Debian Dropping Linux Standard Base (lwn.net) · · Score: 1

    You mean like "sudo pkg install linuxcompat"?

    Yeah, wow. That was significant effort!

    NOTE: I don't bother with Linux compatibility, so I don't know if that is its package name or not. But the point still stands.

    Except, in Debian 8, if the commands you run via sudo call anything in /sbin or /usr/sbin (unless they specify the explicit path) they will fail. Apparently this is for security; apparently it would be dangerous if the root shell you get from sudo had a $PATH that included /sbin or /usr/sbin.

    You have to edit sudoers and add the line:
    Defaults secure_path="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin"

    Debian is getting really annoying.

  2. Re:Hydrogen and Helium? on University of Cape Town Team Breaks World Water Rocketry Record (uct.ac.za) · · Score: 1

    So, I'm super curious to hear what you think pressurized hydrogen or helium would provide that pressurized air would not.

    1) Lower mass. Air at STP is 1.2 g/L. Hydrogen is 0.09 g/L. Looking at the contest rules the pressure vessel has to contain 20% water, so most of the volume is gas. A lighter gas lets you either use more pressure while staying under the 1500 gram limit, or have less dead weight for a given bottle/propellant quantity (whichever way you want to look at it).

    2) Non-ideal gasses have different compressability. Not my field, so I can't calculate it, but it's significant enough that the rules forbid it for this reason. You have to use air.

    But doesn't the gas form part of the reaction mass? And therefore using a lighter gas would give less thrust? Eg might sulfur hexafluoride be better?

  3. Re:Don't worry, rasing the minimum wage will kill on In Midst of a Tech Boom, Seattle Tries To Keep Its Soul · · Score: 1

    Bullshit. Fast food burger flipping has a 1 day training period.

    It's a starter job. Anybody who gets stuck there is a moron that deserves no respect. Exceptions for actual retards.

    Food production and garbage disposal are two of the most important jobs in any civilisation. WAY more important than, say, software development...

    What happens if you all have to prep your own food?
    What happens if your garbage just doesn't get taken away?

  4. Re:Yes and? on Enlightenment Mysteriously Drops Wayland Support · · Score: 1

    http://www.stokely.com/lighter...

    We stopped when we got a clean compile on the following syntax: for(;P("\n"),R-;P("|"))for(e=C;e-;P("_"+(*u++/8)%2))P("| "+(*u/4)%2);

  5. Re:So Simple on How To Make Messages Easy For an Alien Race To Understand (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    Obviously, we should just speak English, ssslllloooooowwwwww and LOUD!!!!! Everyone understands that. Especially aliens, who are all just humans with weird coloration and skin conditions.

    Well based on everything I've been taught about alien life, mostly its just a variation in forehead configurations... And their females all have interesting chest-bumps.

  6. Re:Don't contact aliens. Don't. on How To Make Messages Easy For an Alien Race To Understand (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    You come across a giant ant hill, one that populated by ants that could probably bite you but unlikely to ever kill unless you let them. What do you do?

    What do you do, lets see.

    You take your most nasty villains and you stake them out on the ant hill and cover their genitalia with honey.

    I wonder if thats whats happening here...

  7. Re:core point on How To Make Messages Easy For an Alien Race To Understand (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    If they have an atomic model other than the concept of electrons and protons they don't have advanced electronics and so no means to detect the Voyager message other than after it impacts their planet.

    Alternatively, if they actually know about physics our representation of the atomic model might make as much sense to their physicists as the Ptolemaic representation of the solar system (with its epicycles) might make to our astrophysicists and be equally unintelligible.

    (sorry, with all due respect to physicists I can't help but think that humanities understanding of physics must be infantile).

  8. Re:Universal language of elements on How To Make Messages Easy For an Alien Race To Understand (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh no you don't. I've got Walking Dead, Doctor Who, ST-DS9 and ST-Voyager to finish binge watching first. I don't need to be adding Stargate and it's offspring to the list.

    If you cherry-pick episodes of ST-DS9 and ST-Voyager so you watch the actual storyline episodes and skip the ones which are, basically, just about people sitting around in their uniforms complaining about their lives, they can be packed into a easy weekend of viewing.

    Even Sliders can be made quite viewable in this fashion, except replace 'sitting around in their uniforms...' with 'moralising about other cultures which they know nothing about'.

  9. Re:Yes and? on Enlightenment Mysteriously Drops Wayland Support · · Score: 2, Informative

    Those knowledgeable in the horrible language of C...

    That's where I stopped taking the article you linked seriously.

    C isn't a horrible programming language!

    Its a beautiful practical joke.

  10. Re:I guess they realised... on Enlightenment Mysteriously Drops Wayland Support · · Score: 1

    How/where has the problem been solved better?

    systemd?

    Surely systemd solves *everything* better, thats why all the distros have gone with it?

  11. War. Thats what happened. on What Happened To the Martian Ocean and Magnetic Field? (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    Millions of years ago Earth, Mars and Venus formed an artificial Klemperer rosette in the habitable zone around the Sun.

    The advanced civilisations which produced this artifact went to war. Mars and Venus' orbits were wrecked. Mars was hit by 'planetbuster' bombs and cracked open, its molten core spewing out into space and collapsing on itself. Venus was subjected to bombardment by comets and turned into the hell-hole it is today. Only Earth survived mostly intact.

    Either that or the civilisation which produced the rosette went into decline and could no longer maintain the technology that kept this unstable formation from breaking up into what we see today.

  12. Re:You're a funny dinosaur, and wrong on All Malibu Media Subpoenas In Eastern District NY Put On Hold · · Score: 2

    Porn needs to die. It harms families, creates promiscuity, and is harmful to children and women. Why we tolerate this smut in our Christian nation I will never know.

    I know you're trolling, but I'll bite anyway.

    All the perceived negative effects of porn stem from sex and nudity having been given a historic stigma by the church, for which your kind is to blame entirely. There is nothing evil or harmful in natural sexual processes whatsoever, nor in the naked body, but just the opposite: they provide happiness and enjoyment, and as a side effect produce offspring which was nature's motive for making sex enjoyable in the first place.

    The above doesn't excuse non-consensual or violent porn of any kind, nor sexual servitude under duress, let alone attacks on children. Those are all simply criminal abuse, and should have no place in a civilized society. That's not because of religious doctrine but because abuse and duress are a violation of people's personal freedom and safety in a supportive society.

    Religion has programmed you into seeing good things as evil without any defensible justification other than historic dictats. You really ought to think about it yourself a little more deeply and logically, instead of blindly adopting what you're told to think. It doesn't stand up to scrutiny.

    One of the problems with porn is that, even in porn which is definitely not non-consensual or violent, it does not present actual sex. You aren't watching people having sex; you are watching people (effectively) pretending to have sex but what they are doing is just 'for the camera'. If you actually try doing this stuff yourself you might find that its actually not very enjoyable.

    The good old 'facial cumshot' is a good example of this. So you have a beautiful woman, apparently skilled in fellatio, blowing you and what do you do when you are about to reach orgasm? You pull your cock right out of your mouth and you MASTURBATE to finish off on her face. FFS!!! This is totally ridiculous.

    This is what 'causes harm'. People start forming the idea that this is what sex actually is and what you should do.

    This seems to be a relatively modern phenomenon. In older porn, 1970s and '80s, in the old 'Swedish movies' for example, its much more realistic sex; as if you are peering into peoples bedrooms (bathrooms, lounges etc) and watching them at it.

  13. Re:ZFS is nice... on Ubuntu Plans To Make ZFS File-System Support Standard On Linux · · Score: 1

    And IPMI console typically requires java. Within a year or so NO browser will support that!

    No, you can use serial-over-LAN via native utilities like ipmitool. You're talking about the idiot-friendly web interface a few OEMs happen to include. Most ipmi implementations don't even have any web/browser interface to begin with.

    When you are accessing a server on the other side of the world with a dedicated server hosting provider, serial takes a bit more set-up for them and they just don't do it. I've certainly never encountered a single one, and I deal with hundreds of such hosting providers.

    Many sysadmins in the real world are very sadly stuck with the web interface and have no other option.

  14. Re:ZFS is nice... on Ubuntu Plans To Make ZFS File-System Support Standard On Linux · · Score: 1

    A typical home Linux server - AKA an old PC - won't have IPMI. Actual servers typically will have IPMI, but they cost $BIG_BUCKS$. And even then, IPMI is extremely limited.

    On the Dell servers I bought a few months ago I can't do anything useful with it beyond power on/off or text-only console redirection over serial (over LAN) before the OS loads (I can get into BIOS and the RAID controller ROM, not much else).
    Unless of course I pony up more cash for their iDRAC Standard/Pro/Enterprise/etc. shit. THEN I can get graphical console redirection, some storage space to flash firmware from, and even USB/optical drive redirection.

    And IPMI console typically requires java. Within a year or so NO browser will support that!

  15. Re:I wonder if... on Vostochny Launch Building Built To the Wrong Size · · Score: 1

    'Murcan' freedom is not freedom at all.

    Perhaps you meant to imply it, but your signature is lacking the case where corporate interests own both media and government. That would seem to be the case in 'the land of the free'.

    well obviously its a reference to media corporations... which effectively own democratic governments.

    At least totalitarian regimes have some claim to legitimacy. Democratic governments have none.

  16. Re:Depends on the project on Disproving the Mythical Man-Month With DevOps · · Score: 1

    The common sense suggests that this entirely depends on the project under question. Say if there are five independent tasks each taking a month for a team of five, then a team of 25 will complete it in one month. On the other hand a woman "produces" a baby in 9 months but 9 women can't "produce" a baby in one month.

    Yet, as has been noted elsewhere, 9 women can produce a baby a month for 9 months, with a 9 month lead time.

  17. Re:Not a hard and fast rule... on Disproving the Mythical Man-Month With DevOps · · Score: 1

    Considering that to start a project a developer needs two or three or more weeks to even really start working, I doubt hat the imagined 25 developers can finish in the remaining one or two weeks anything.

    Combining DevOps, Micro Services and Mythical Man Month into one headline makes no sense anyway.

    Since when does a DevOp develop a micro service?

    Arguably the devops crew will never actually finish a project ever; it'll always need a bit more tweaking and tuning!

  18. Re:Not a hard and fast rule... on Disproving the Mythical Man-Month With DevOps · · Score: 1

    Considering that to start a project a developer needs two or three or more weeks to even really start working, I doubt hat the imagined 25 developers can finish in the remaining one or two weeks anything.

    Combining DevOps, Micro Services and Mythical Man Month into one headline makes no sense anyway.

    Since when does a DevOp develop a micro service?

    What would actually happen in practice is that, under a DevOp model that 5 month project would never actually be finished no matter how many people you threw at it, even if you just set the 5 developers at it.

    Adding more devops guys doesn't make it take more or less time; devops projects are NEVER completed, its just ongoing development forever and ever.

  19. Re:Can it target certain races? Dr. Death's wet dr on DNA Vaccine Sterilizes Mice, Could Lead To One-Shot Birth Control For Cats, Dogs · · Score: 1

    Let's hope Israel employs it ASAP in self-defense...

    They already try to induce abortions in heavily pregnant Palestinian women by keeping them in hot cars at checkpoints for several hours at a stretch.

  20. Re:Can't wait for eugenics to come back... on DNA Vaccine Sterilizes Mice, Could Lead To One-Shot Birth Control For Cats, Dogs · · Score: 1

    or the room with the euthanization cocktails that feeds into a nearby soylent factory.

    FTFY

  21. ...new injection ... long-term birth control options for humans.

    What could possible go wrong? Did some government police state / apocalyptic scenarios run through anyone else's minds when they read that?

    If Australia had this in the 1970s there would be very few Aborigines left today.

  22. Re:I'm curious on Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Deal Is Reached · · Score: 1

    Some Chinese I met think the TPP will be the opportunity of poking the China bubble, forcing the economy to crash, hence removing the last similitude of legitimacy of Chinese Communist Party's one-party authoritarian rule. They're all for it.

    But one can easily see the countless logical holes in this line of pipedre^H^H^H^H^H^H^H reasoning. In slashdotspeak, it's like

    1) TPP
    2) ...?
    3) Liberty!

    More like

    1) TPP, crash of Chinese economy, billions of Chinese with nothing to lose
    2) ???
    3) 3rd world war

  23. Re: ROT13 in the WW-II era.. on Desktop Turing-Welchman Bombe Build · · Score: 0

    What if you were constantly being threatened, denigrated or otherwise being made to feel that you're inferior because of your brown hair ? I would applaud you for holding your head up and announce to the bigots " I'm proud of my brown hair, you're the one with the problem". We're around and we're brown; get used to it.

    Be proud of your achievements, not your sexuality.

    If you've stood up to oppression visited on you because of your sexuality, be proud of that!

    But if you believe that your sexuality itself is an accident of birth, being proud of *that* would be conceited. Of course, if you've *become* gay and chosen this lifestyle, well then you could be proud of having made that decision.

    There are a lot of people out there who, and I'm sure this will amaze you, couldn't care less about your sexuality. They neither approve nor disapprove; its not our business what you do in the bedroom, its not our business if you kiss your boy/girlfriend in the street. But when you start to harp on about it, this creates a bad atmosphere and actually turns people against you who would otherwise be neutral. Can you believe this??

    Be proud of your achievements but don't lay it on with a trowel, you would just be making people sick of hearing about it.

  24. Re: ROT13 in the WW-II era.. on Desktop Turing-Welchman Bombe Build · · Score: 4, Insightful

    wth. why not be proud.

    turing substantially helped the war and was one of the key figures who defined modern computation

    and they harassed the poor man until he killed himself

    the fact that some small fraction of the worlds gay population can celebrate and not cower in fear
    is a huge advancement. and you can fuck off.

    Pride is something you feel about something you achieved not an accident of birth. Is it an accident of birth, something over which you have no control? If so then pride is entirely inappropriate, just like being proud of the colour of your eyes.

    If I were proud of having brown hair wouldn't I be conceited? How about being proud of being heterosexual, proud of not being gay? Is that ok by you? No? Get over yourself.

    Don't be ashamed of what you are but reserve pride for your true achievements.

  25. Re: ROT13 in the WW-II era.. on Desktop Turing-Welchman Bombe Build · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    ... and by the time the war broke out, they had already switched over to much more complicated systems that still fell under the name enigma . but again the rightest Slashdot posters with their anti-gay propaganda pushing very misleading information to minimize the accomplishments of a gay person (or something like that. I have no idea what the fuck you are even talking about).

    Gay pride is just as bad as gay hate. Gay pride just amounts to conceit; its not an achievement, its not something amazing they've done with their lives, its not even a lifestyle choice. Be unashamed but don't be 'proud'.