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  1. bah... on Jeremy Clarkson Dismissed From Top Gear · · Score: 1

    Good riddance. The show was a throwback to mentality that humanity should have left for dead with the 70s oil crisis.

  2. Re:Obligatory Discussions on GNOME 3.16 Released · · Score: 1

    Bassi ripping someone a verbal new one in 3.. 2.. 1..

  3. Re:Obligatory Discussions on GNOME 3.16 Released · · Score: 1

    > Hopefully someone shoots whoever is responsible for Gnome 3

    Shit storm about death threats in the Linux community in 3.. 2.. 1..

  4. Re:Heisenberg compensator ... on Researchers Identify 'Tipping Point' Between Quantum and Classical Worlds · · Score: 1

    Well there is always the "pilot wave" alternative. But it results in locality being violated, as a distant event can introduce changes to the wave that will then go on to influence results elsewhere.

  5. Re:It's time to start running!!!!! on How To Execute People In the 21st Century · · Score: 1

    Gladiatoral combat? Two persons enter, none leave?

  6. Re:So much for Debian 8, then... on Google Chrome Requires TSYNC Support Under Linux · · Score: 1

    Reads to me like the browser will check if the flag is present, and if not keep on going anyways (perhaps with a nag to the user that things are less secure than they could be).

  7. Puzzled... on Google Chrome Requires TSYNC Support Under Linux · · Score: 1

    what has always puzzled me about Chrome/Chromium, is that the latter do not come as easy to handle tar-balls.

    If you want to compile it you have to download special tools, then aim those at their source repo to grab a tagged branch, and then compile from that the variant you want (said repo mix Chromium and ChromiumOS as best i can tell).

  8. Re:Maybe, maybe not. on China's Arthur C. Clarke · · Score: 1

    Sometimes i wonder if he confused magic with religion when formulating that last one.

  9. Re:What is systemd exactly? on Ubuntu To Officially Switch To systemd Next Monday · · Score: 1

    Maybe i am old, but i kinda liked the autoexec.bat/config.sys duo. Open up two files, see exactly what the system was doing to get started. But then DOS booted fairly rapidly at the worst of times, thanks to not having a massive tree of interlocking processes that all needed to save state upon shutdown.

  10. Re:What is systemd exactly? on Ubuntu To Officially Switch To systemd Next Monday · · Score: 1

    With roid rage.

  11. Re:What is systemd exactly? on Ubuntu To Officially Switch To systemd Next Monday · · Score: 1

    With systemd a troubled boot seems to go from "it booted, but lack half the daemons" to "something in the dependency chain broke, here is a (buggy) emergency login, you're on your own" (the last bit systemd will actually state when presenting you with said login).

    At that point you are better off hitting hardware reset and fire up the kernel with /bin/bash as init (not sure how friendly journald is about giving out anything without systemd running though).

    Seriously, at one point that emergency login was found to be executing commands, as root, if they were typed into the password prompt.

  12. Re:What is systemd exactly? on Ubuntu To Officially Switch To systemd Next Monday · · Score: 1

    It "is", if you treat your laptop like a oversized smartphone.

  13. Re:What is systemd exactly? on Ubuntu To Officially Switch To systemd Next Monday · · Score: 1

    Fundamentally the "server" argument is not aimed at traditional (some would call it "pet") servers. It is aimed at cloud servers, like amazon's EC2 service. There being able to spin up 1000 extra "server" instances at the drop of a fedora is key.

  14. Re:What is systemd exactly? on Ubuntu To Officially Switch To systemd Next Monday · · Score: 1

    Don't have a URL handy, but i think it may be a reference to systemd presenting the user with a emergency login prompt that would execute commands, as root no less, entered at the password prompt.

  15. Re:Floating on Ubuntu To Officially Switch To systemd Next Monday · · Score: 1

    Want to try something new in init, go with openRC or similar projects that do init and init only.

    One may wonder when Gnome will announce that the project will be renamed systemd-gnome, and the code of its projects will be merged with that of systemd.

  16. Re:Goodbye, Ubuntu on Ubuntu To Officially Switch To systemd Next Monday · · Score: 1

    Maybe at first. But by now it has outgrown launchd massively.

  17. Re:Goodbye, Ubuntu on Ubuntu To Officially Switch To systemd Next Monday · · Score: 1

    Launchd is nowhere near as sprawling as systemd.

  18. Re:Not ready for primetime on Ubuntu To Officially Switch To systemd Next Monday · · Score: 1

    Not surprising, given that the systemd talk is done by the head honcho himself. Do wonder what kind of bus factor he was within the project...

  19. Re:Excellent news on Ubuntu To Officially Switch To systemd Next Monday · · Score: 1

    I have yet to figure out why this is such a big deal for everyone.

    What kind of gordian knot of a boot up sequence does the daemon has that only the provider can do the init script properly?

    Ship the binary, ship proper instructions, let the admin do his job.

  20. Re:Not ready for primetime on Ubuntu To Officially Switch To systemd Next Monday · · Score: 1

    Then again, half the supposed issues that the push to containerize everything "Linux" can be fixed by not having the package manager do dependencies.

    This because it is Linux or the GNU toolchains that has issues with multiple lib versions (the major source of "dependency hell"), it is the package managers.

    Both DEB and RPM balk at having libxyz-v1.0 and lubxyz-v1.1 installed at the same time (unless you do something fancy with the package names). Libtool don't care, as it has SONAME to keep track of the lib version that the binary wants.

    But to "fix" this the clever boys behind systemd and Gome are planning to cram everything into containers so that each "app" can only see the libs it claims to need.

    Dude that's a tweety bird you are trying to shoot down, not a B-52!

  21. Re:Russian or Asian on GSM/GPS Tracking Device Found On Activist's Car At Circumvention Tech Festival · · Score: 1

    Spanish backed and supported by US resources?

  22. Re:Even worse - extensions == "chmod +x" ?!? on Why We Should Stop Hiding File-Name Extensions · · Score: 1

    I guess there is always file...

  23. Re:Good operating systems Dont. on Why We Should Stop Hiding File-Name Extensions · · Score: 1

    I guess the issue can be seen as a variant of Learned Helplessness.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    This in that people adopt the attitude of drooling idiots because the big providers do not give them a (easy) way out.

    Sadly it seems that Linux is heading the same way, with Ubuntu's Unity and Gnome leading the charge.

  24. Re:Screen resolutions on Who's Afraid of Android Fragmentation? · · Score: 1

    From day one Android has had a system of screen grouping based on physical size and DPI. You produce a UI layout for each group, and Android loads the appropriate one for the device.

    https://developer.android.com/...

  25. Re:He's being polite. on Schneier: Everyone Wants You To Have Security, But Not From Them · · Score: 1

    And the industry wants it that way.

    More and more products have a "user" mode, and (maybe) a "developer" mode.

    the user mode will be locked down to tight that moving files around is virtually impossible without bouncing them off some cloud service.

    the developer mode is wide open, but they will refuse you access to any kind of for pay service because you may be a pirate...