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  1. Zombies on Facebook Adds Legacy Contact Feature In Case You Die Before It Does · · Score: 1

    Is a zombie considered living or dead by facebook standards? I am just asking in case of a zombie apocalypse because the legacy contact has also chances to be a zombie too.

  2. Re:Adblock has never failed me. on Google, Amazon, Microsoft Reportedly Paid AdBlock Plus To Unblock · · Score: 1

    Any other recommendations you've got, IT Pro?

    Self-destructing cookies.

  3. Re:HTTPS /. on EFF Unveils Plan For Ending Mass Surveillance · · Score: 0

    Actually, /. works fine with https

  4. Re:Status on other UNIX like kernels on OpenBSD's Kernel Gets W^X Treatment On Amd64 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Except that only userland benefitted from that till now.
    Now it's even for the kernel, that's the news here.

  5. Re:Theo de Raadt on Slashdot Asks: The Beanies Return; Who Deserves Recognition for 2014? · · Score: 3

    And for the reason that he is the only one to pursue his goal without being disturbed by all external factors.

  6. Re:About the same on Here's What Your Car Could Look Like In 2030 · · Score: 1

    Actually, there are some sports cars where you can fit a family. It might depend what you call a sports car.
    For example, look at the Porsche Panamera. OK, for my part I find it ugly, but that might be just me.
    Or the Ferrari FF, it looks quite nice and is a true sports car with 4 seats.
    Or even the upcoming Mercedes CLA shooting brake.

  7. Re:From the point of view of someone loving cars on Here's What Your Car Could Look Like In 2030 · · Score: 1

    My every day car has a 7 speed dual-clutch gearbox, and I would prefer a manual one but that was a no go if I wanted the engine I took... Sometimes you have to make compromises.

  8. From the point of view of someone loving cars on Here's What Your Car Could Look Like In 2030 · · Score: 1

    This looks like the perfect description of what hell would look like after apocalypse...

  9. Re:How systemd became Debian's default init system on Longtime Debian Developer Tollef Fog Heen Resigns From Systemd Maintainer Team · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I've once had sshd randomly crash. Very randomly. Nothing appeared to cause it and it has worked ever since. A headless server with no management console. I wonder to this day if I had another option than simply hitting the reset button on the front.

    What if it was someone attacking your sshd and making it crash when it failed?
        By automatically restarting it, you just allow the attacker to continue trying to exploit it.
        By automatically restarting it, you don't solve the issue that makes it crashing.
        By automatically restarting it, you, most of the time, don't even see it restarted, so really not giving you any way to solve the real problem.

    It's not that I don't find process monitoring interesting, it's just that automatically restarting can bring more problems than it solves. A little bit like "ohh, my server doesn't seem to be working correctly, let's reboot".

    A well behaving daemon shouldn't be restarted (except maybe for rereading config files), it should start and stay that way. If it crashes randomly, then you might try to find the bug.

    OK, that said, you can now flame me if you don't like this.

  10. Re:Technicalities on Ebola Nose Spray Vaccine Protects Monkeys · · Score: 3, Funny

    That's true, it's know that you need 12 monkeys when a virus outbreak is there. :)

  11. Re:OpenBSD is dead on OpenBSD Drops Support For Loadable Kernel Modules · · Score: 1

    Not that there's anything wrong with that. OpenBSD will remain a niche product run by a handful of users that otherwise run Macs (oh, citation needed? http://assets.keltia.net/photo... ) and other than being primary sources of OpenSSH and hopefully systemd shims, completely irrelevant.

    It seems you took a picture of FreeBSD users, which indeed often run Macs. But FreeBSD runs on Macs too...
    systemd shim is useful to simplify porting software that idiots thought it was useful to make systemd dependent. The most popular of this software is something I stopped using years ago because the devs were taking bad decisions, so that's not new.

  12. Re:Puzzling on OpenBSD Drops Support For Loadable Kernel Modules · · Score: 1

    kqemu. But that's about the only one I can think of. And it's old and deprecated nowadays.

  13. Re:Silly expectations on Will the Google Car Turn Out To Be the Apple Newton of Automobiles? · · Score: 1

    I fully expect driverless cars to replace long haul drivers first. Then short haul, then taxis, then everyone else. Each one of those steps will come with a long list of restrictions. But as you move to the next step those restrictions get less and less.

    So you expect the heaviest things, those which take the most space on the road, those which can do the most damage if any error occurs to be replaced first?

  14. Re:How hard is it to recognize a stoplight? on Will the Google Car Turn Out To Be the Apple Newton of Automobiles? · · Score: 1

    It's almost like they were designed for the task.

    They were indeed designed for the task. The idea of that octogonal shape in almost every part of the world is for people to be able to recognize that sign without any confusion. It also allows drivers facing the back of the sign to identify that drivers from other lanes have a stop sign. It is also identifiable by night (because original signs were not reflective and cars lights were not particularly effective).

  15. Give it a name first on Ask Slashdot: Aging and Orphan Open Source Projects? · · Score: 2

    I would suggest you give the project a name first, given from your post it doesn't seem to have one. Then publish on well known site that this project is searching for devs.

  16. Re:Oracle on Google Takes the Fight With Oracle To the Supreme Court · · Score: 1

    Yes, there is something different. Google never told that what you called their "JRE" is a replacement for the oracle one, or should even be considered like this. It's there for a completely different purpose.
    While MS claimed that their JRE was a replacement for Oracle one and did break compatibility all the way.

  17. Re:What about other devices? on Windows Tax Shot Down In Italy · · Score: 3, Insightful

    People really don't care what OS is on their computer, as long as it pre-installed and works the way they know. It could be QNX or plan9 or anything else, as long as they are able to to the things they know how to do.

  18. Re:What about other devices? on Windows Tax Shot Down In Italy · · Score: 1

    Because "most people" want their computer from Dell and HP to come with Windows.

    No, they do not WANT their computer with windows. They have been forced into windows for ages, so now they are accustomed and see no reason why it wouldn't be that way (and most don't even know alternatives exist anyway).
    It's about the same as drugs, really. At first you get some nasty effect, then you get accustomed to it , find that normal and want more of it....

  19. Re:What? on GSOC Project Works To Emulate Systemd For OpenBSD · · Score: 0

    What?

    ``systemd-hostnamed, systemd-localed, systemd-timedated, and systemd-logind utilities''

    The `d' at the end of each of those stands for `utilities'?

    Seriously, please do some editing before posing.

    Of course, because systemd will just redefine everything. Before systemd, d was for daemon, with systemd, d now means utility. Isn't life that much better with systemd?

    systemd: a poorly designed complex solution to problem which doesn't exist...

  20. Re:What's up with HP URLs? on HP Recalls 6 Million Power Cables Over Fire Hazard · · Score: 1

    I would say, there are probably loadbalancers/web redirectors, which redirect you with to one server which you will contact during that whole session. So your session will be kept on the same server and they don't need to use anycast or sync. Just a guess though...

  21. Re:My opinion on the matter. on Choose Your Side On the Linux Divide · · Score: 1

    Linux is Linux, and the community should develop technologies that advances Linux, exactly like *BSD forks develops BSD technology without thinking a moment on how it would work on Linux.

    Maybe BSD folks don't think how it would work on linux, but at least they write portable software which has very high chances to run on linux. Unlike systemd folks which write code which they _know_ will _not_ run outside linux.

  22. Not UNIX like anymore on Choose Your Side On the Linux Divide · · Score: 0

    The thing is, what we called a linux distro, is not the same anymore. Linus wanted to make some kind of cheap (by price) UNIX.

    With systemd, 2 fundamental pricniples of UNIX are broken:
    (i) Make each program do one thing well. To do a new job, build afresh rather than complicate old programs by adding new features.

    (ii) Expect the output of every program to become the input to another, as yet unknown, program. Don't clutter output with extraneous information. Avoid stringently columnar or binary input formats. Don't insist on interactive input.

    So, probably distros shipping systemd should not be called linux distros anymore. It was already a mistake to call "Linux" distos. With systemd, linux distros are as close to unix as android does...

  23. registryd on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Released · · Score: 1

    Will registryd be part of systemd soon? I can't wait having some centralized binary configuration only readable by systemd utilities.

  24. Useless at best on Thousands of Europeans Petition For Their 'Right To Be Forgotten' · · Score: 1

    What is this intended for?
    So, let's assume your submit the form to google and you are successfully removed, what does happen??

    You are a EU citizen, and anybody using any Europe located IP, will not see the info you wanted to be removed in a search they do. Cool, so you won't see yourself appearing on the pages you search for...
    Except that...
    People outside Europe will still see relevant results without any problem. The info is not removed or blacklisted in google, it just doesn't appear into european search results. Use a proxy anywhere else, and you will see the results you wanted to be removed.

    This is at best 100% useless, as it's trivially bypassed....

  25. Re:What other platforms? on Interview: Ask Theo de Raadt What You Will · · Score: 1

    Those platforms still help finding new undiscovered bugs. That's one of the points in continuing support for those.