Actually, as I'm sure you are aware, recoil has nothing to do with any slide or spring. A revolver has no slide or spring. A mortar has no slide or spring. A gun on an old sailing ship has no slide or spring. Recoil is simply momentum imparted to the gun, which exactly equals the momentum imparted to the projectile plus other gaseous and particulate ejecta.
If there is a slide and spring, it has nothing whatever to do with the momentum imparted by the recoil to the weapon. It for a time makes the weapon a compound articulated object, and it modifies the time profile of the impartation of the momentum to the mount or the person holding the weapon.
I recently saw a video review of a new computer in a box that was too small have a CD-ROM drive but came with the drivers on a CD-ROM. *face palm*
There are such things as USB CD/DVD-ROM drives, you know. They are very compact and can be powered right via the USB cable. Everybody I know of has at least one.
I may be wrong, but "power management (sleep/suspend/resume/hibernation) and hotplug/dynamic devices (plugging in/unplugging monitors, headphones, USB devices, Bluetooth, wired and wireless networks)" are not things that those running OpenBSD (or for that matter, Linux on a server) will be particularly interested in.
Exactly so. None of that crap has anything to do with a server. Maybe USB storage for backup, etc. For hotplug, besides USB, the only one I can think of is disk drive removal/insertion. My experience is with FreeBSD, and USB and disk drive hot plugging works just fine. The init scripts don't even play a part in this. The same in Linux before systemd reared its head.
NetBSD has twm, and that's all that's needed, though an upgrade to fvwm2 is kinda nice. twm is a binary that you get automatically in the base install, from the 406MB iso if you're on an x86 platform.
twm is a Window Manager, not a Desktop Environment. As such, it has no start menu, taskbar, etc, and does not come packaged with a set of apps such as a file manager, print manager, etc. As such you will have a damn tough sell trying to get anyone used to using a DE to convert to a bare WM. If you want to run anything besides a shell command window, you're going to have to install apps which are not a part of twm. DEs come with basic apps.
Many would say twm is a primitive WM at that. The windows have no close, minimize, maximize, and restore buttons. Minimize doesn't even have meaning - there is nowhere to minimize TO. Resizing involves clicking on a resize button before you can drag an edge.
GNOME depends on an dbus api, that logind implements, and logind is part of systemd. GNOME does not directly depend on systemd or logind. If you implement the API then GNOME will work just fine.
However, package managers are not able to express dependency on APIs. The only dependencies they can express are on other packages, or libraries. Now, dbus as an independent package has been terminated, so as it stands at present the way package managers express GNOME's true dependency on the DBUS API is to just list a dependency on systemd.
Agreed 100% that post #50754359's AC is an uninformed blowhard... however...
XNU (OSX's kernel) does have a bunch of Mach-based code running in it, and it is being "used"; in fact it is performing critical functions:
Preemptive multitasking and multithreading Memory protection Virtual memory management Inter-process communication Interrupt management Real-time support Kernel debugging support Console I/O
There is also a bunch of FreeBSD-based code running in XNU, implementing essentially all the other kernel functions, including POSIX support, filesystems
Is XNU microkernel-based? That's one for the semanticists to debate. Arguably the Mach-based code is not performing microkernel functions. What is not debatable is that there are or have been Unix-"alike" OS'es baed on microkernels. Minix is one. Hurd is another. They are as Unix-alike as Linux is. I would say POSIX defines Unix-ness, and there is absolutely nothing to prevent a microkernel from implementing POSIX just as fully and faithfully as a monolithic kernel.
I don't want to call you stupid, but are you drunk or something? The assertion is that it costs one cent to ship a T-shirt across the world. A shirt you pay at least five bucks for in the store. You can bet ylour ass that shirt costs more than one cent to manufacture, even in China. That means that manufacturing it 20,000 km away as compared to 1 km away only has a penalty of 0.2% of the retail price, and still a small fraction of the manufacturing cost. Goddam right the bulk trunk transportation costs are negligible.
It costs you more to ship that T-shirt 1 km locally in small lots than it does to trunk it in bulk all the way across the world.
No wonder I can buy 100 capacitors direct from from China for a buck and have them shipped free all the way to my door. That's about as far from "enormous cost per unit volume" as you can get.
Moore's law is dead. Core count is stagnant. All recent gains seem to be in incremental power savings.
Moore's Law says nothing about core count. It says nothing about performance. It only speaks of transistor count. How you put those added transistors to use is subject to certain realities. There are real limits to how effectively you can utilize enormous core counts in general purpose CPUs in desktop or mobile use. In servers you have enormously scaled parallel use, and can make better use of them.
It looks to me like the increased transistor count has been directed mostly at ballooning RAM cache sizes.
Improved performance/power quotient is a completely orthogonal axis from Moore's Law. It is not even implied by Moore's Law.
If your embedded system can't be allowed to crash, you shouldn't be calling malloc().
That's more dogmatic than I would accept. I worked on a highly successful system that was full of malloc and free calls, which had to work autonomously for greater than one month submerged in the ocean with only brief surfacings with very low bandwidth RF connection. We had a lot of discipline and applied a lot of care and testing. There were times that in-service instances did crash, reboot, and continue operating, but these were rare. We did forensics to identify what happened and correct the error. I was highly impressed by the operation.
Are TCP sockets a fundamental variable type in Rust?
No. But std::net in the standard library implements socket support. Presumably it is assumed that the user who needs a socket is going to use this, although of course calls to a C socket libraries could be made if std::net is not sufficiently flexible.
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I'm curious to hear from some KDE fans. In my experience, the K applications are almost universally inferior to other free counterparts (who uses Calliga Suite over LibreOffice? Konqueror over Firefox/Chromium?)
News flash. Who doesn't use the premier standalone apps in preference to bundled apps? WTH is your point? It applies equally to KDE and GNOME, except GNOME doesn't have anywhere near the richness of bundled apps.
One exception is Kate. Kate is far superior to any other general purpose GUI editor.
I have found Plasma to be gaudy
Can't speak to a meaningless thought from the blue.
and bloated compared to MATE and Xfce
"Bloated" is a word that can mean almost anything. If you can specifically describe exactly what you object to, I might be able to evaluate it. If you're talking about disk usage, I would categorically snort, seeing it as a complete so-what non factor. If you're talking about RAM use, can you present specific comparisons? If you're talking about features, I give up. The concept of "too many features" is completely irrational. If what you really mean is that a wealth of features get in the way by making the app too hard to use, then in principle that could at least be a rational objection.
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Christ, the whole point of KDE was that it used an excellently architected C++ core library instead of a clunky crude C core library trying to imitate OO on a flat procedural programming environment. A long time ago, before Qt went straight full free software, the whiners had a point about shying away. As it is now, why would KDE ever switch away from the best?
UI retrogression abandoning use standards is a universal hipster problem. It has nothing whatever to do with KDE. Microsoft started it, Firefox copied it, and Gnome took it up with a vengeance. KDE to this day is still a rational GUI. Windows are properly decorated, with proper controls in the proper places, no hidden now-you-see-it, now-you-don't scrollbars, and no idiotic bullshit abortions like only-the-one "current" window having a title bar, with the title bar at the top of the display.
As for "slow app loading", what piece of shit hardware are you running on? I use a mix of KDE, GTK, and other apps, and they all load instantaneously on my decidedly trailing-edge boxes. The absolute nauseatingly worst offenders for RAM bloat are Firefox and Thunderbird, which are both GTK-based.
If you've got absolute lightweight religion for whatever reason, I won't knock it. I will just point out that all the usual DEs are pigs for RAM use, and that disk space use has been a complete non-factor for at least 15 years. Even Xfce has caught the pigginess. With LXDE pretty much withering and Razor-Qt developing at a glacially-slow pace, I personally think Lumina has a lot of promise.
Electricity is generated in coal power plants, or in nuclear power plants. These pollute.
And in natural gas (low pollution), and some oil power plants. And you conveniently left out hydropower (zero pollution), wind power (zero pollution), solar power (zero pollution), and geothermal power (zero pollution). Nuclear "pollution" is practically zero compared to coal. Not counting accidents, nuclear "pollution" is practically zero. Coal power liberates into the environment vastly more radioactivity per GW per year than does nuclear. Contained waste is an issue rather different from liberation of pollution.
The sum of pollution over the lifecycle of an electric car may well be a lot worse than that of a gasoline car.
Really? Every locomotive in use today is a diesel electric hybrid.
Oops. Incorrect. First of all, it's not "every" locomotive. There are many all-electric locomotives. 25% by length of the world railway network is electrified. 50% of all world railway transport is carried by electrical traction. More importantly, there are essentially NO hybrid locomotives at all, because the concept is stupid. The engine use profile is very different from automobiles. Diesel-electric locomotives are simply diesel-powered locomotives with an electric transmission.
Hybrid by DEFINITION means "a vehicle that uses two or more distinct power sources to move the vehicle". For example, a Prius is capable of summing engine power plus battery power to drive the wheels. 100% of the power in a locomotive is sourced from the diesel engine. There are no batteries.
For the rest, you are entirely correct. And indeed, there is work being done on developing diesel hybrid trucks.
European regulation crusades against... PM10 (tiny soot particles eventually causing cancer and systematic heart failure after decades of accumulation in the lungs). PM10 is a big-big issue for diesels
Nonsense. Most visible smoke is larger particles than PM10, and is not fully respirable. The cilia trap most of it before it gets to the alveoli. PM10 is relatively coarse particulates. PM2.5 is fine particulates, and below this there are superfine particulates too, and these are the more dangerous. PM2.5 and superfine particulates are a problem in gasoline engines as well, particularly the newer direct injection designs. Hysteria has just not centered on this yet.
The problem with the Phaeton was ENTIRELY predictable to anyone who had experience with the INDESCRIBABLY TERRIBLE VW dealer servicing. It's like they hire a bunch a bunch of high school dropouts with unusually low intelligence, experience, and dexterity, and then the service managers tell them in essence to cut every possible corner and not worry about following very precise procedures developed by engineering.
As a result, every time you take your vehicle in for work, it comes out in overall poorer shape, quite often with small parts missing, and just about always with fasteners re-used that are designated one-time-use-only.
On top of that, their idea of repairing a mechanical problem is to quickly come up with a list of conceivable causes for the observed problem, and then replace parts one after another until the problem goes away - telling the poor customer at the end that all of the replacements were necessary and charging him up the wazoo for all of the parts and "work". Too often, the problem is something like "does not shift right" and the corrective action is "replace transmission - remit $5,000".
It is by an enormous margin the worst dealer servicing of any vehicle manufacturer doing business in the US.
Combine this with trying to sell a very high-end model with a brand known for decades for one thing: economy. OK, maybe two things. It has also been known for shoddy engineering and build quality in certain respects. Almost everyone who examined and tested it agreed that the Phaeton was an impressive piece of design, but the price was through the roof, and exceedingly few people in the US would even considered giving it a thought.
What we need is a new generation of adblockers: Have it download whatever the ad material is, but just don't render it, and if it includes javascript, fake-execute it in a sandbox. Then advertisers will get paid, and you don't have to see ads, and nobody is the wiser because they won't know the difference. Face it: People who don't want to see ads are going to do whatever they have to to not be subjected to them, and people who don't care about ads will see them.
Isn't the problem with this that javascript has to be executed (for real) in order to get any content at all for many websites? How do you tell the difference between a script downloading crap and a script downloading authentic content? This would turn into the same performance-clobbering cluster fuck as the virus/antivirus war on Windows.
Except if I don't trust it, why the hell would I download it?
I think the answer to that question is obvious. Clearly they can detect when you are not sucking on the crap feed, and take countermeasures. Continuing to transfer the crap, but sending it to/dev/null addresses that problem.
I think the question is better stated, couldn't you transfer all the ad data and just send it to/dev/null? Presto, no sounds, no flash, no gaudy images.
The bandwidth hit remains as an objection, but tell me what the is the security difference between not transferring malware, and transferring it to/dev/null.
Would you happen to also be one of those who jumps in with the correction 'the U.S. is a republic, not a democracy' except the fact that its representatives are democratically elected?
What part of "democratic republic" do you not understand? "Democratic" is a modifier. A republic is a form of government in which power resides in elected individuals representing the citizen body. A democracy is a form of government in which the people govern directly. Sometimes this is sophically termed a "direct" democracy or "pure" democracy, but it is a democracy, period. Any other kind of so-called democracy, such as a "representative" democracy is a "kinda" democracy.
You can have a democratic monarchy, too. What do you think the UK is? Hint: "constitutional monarchy" is not an accurate descriptor of the UK, because the UK has no formal constitution. It sure as hell is different from the absolute monarchy in Saudi Arabia. So far. It hasn't been completely overrun by regimented-thinking muslims just yet.
Yes, this is important. The Democratic Party and the Republican Party are not public entities, they are private groups formed and populated by people with agendas.
What would it take to classify the Democrat and Republican parties as outlaw corrupt political racketeers bent on sabotaging the nation's electoral process? Round up all the evil treasonous bastards. It would be the freshest breeze we have seen since 1776.
I can detect almost zero correlation between presidential candidates' campaign promises, and how they'll act once in office. The only difference between elected presidents seems to be the way in which they'll screw over law-abiding, non-1%-wealthy citizens.
OK, cynicism does resonate with some part of me. But when is the last time the US elected a president who was not an obvious establishment sellout from long before election time? The last one I could possibly see as a possibility was JFK in 1960 - and he was debatable. One can have disagreement with various of Mr. Sanders' stands, but seeing him as a sellout is not credible.
Just because the electorate has chosen an endless series of sellouts, who were transparently obvious as sellouts at election time, is not a rational argument that all candidates would sell out if elected.
I think you will find your script has "interesting" results if directory names with space charcters in them are involved. It wouldn't be much more effort to guard against this as a matter of principle:
Slashdot Mirror
Actually, as I'm sure you are aware, recoil has nothing to do with any slide or spring. A revolver has no slide or spring. A mortar has no slide or spring. A gun on an old sailing ship has no slide or spring. Recoil is simply momentum imparted to the gun, which exactly equals the momentum imparted to the projectile plus other gaseous and particulate ejecta.
If there is a slide and spring, it has nothing whatever to do with the momentum imparted by the recoil to the weapon. It for a time makes the weapon a compound articulated object, and it modifies the time profile of the impartation of the momentum to the mount or the person holding the weapon.
There are such things as USB CD/DVD-ROM drives, you know. They are very compact and can be powered right via the USB cable. Everybody I know of has at least one.
Exactly so. None of that crap has anything to do with a server. Maybe USB storage for backup, etc. For hotplug, besides USB, the only one I can think of is disk drive removal/insertion. My experience is with FreeBSD, and USB and disk drive hot plugging works just fine. The init scripts don't even play a part in this. The same in Linux before systemd reared its head.
twm is a Window Manager, not a Desktop Environment. As such, it has no start menu, taskbar, etc, and does not come packaged with a set of apps such as a file manager, print manager, etc. As such you will have a damn tough sell trying to get anyone used to using a DE to convert to a bare WM. If you want to run anything besides a shell command window, you're going to have to install apps which are not a part of twm. DEs come with basic apps.
Many would say twm is a primitive WM at that. The windows have no close, minimize, maximize, and restore buttons. Minimize doesn't even have meaning - there is nowhere to minimize TO. Resizing involves clicking on a resize button before you can drag an edge.
However, package managers are not able to express dependency on APIs. The only dependencies they can express are on other packages, or libraries. Now, dbus as an independent package has been terminated, so as it stands at present the way package managers express GNOME's true dependency on the DBUS API is to just list a dependency on systemd.
Agreed 100% that post #50754359's AC is an uninformed blowhard ... however ...
XNU (OSX's kernel) does have a bunch of Mach-based code running in it, and it is being "used"; in fact it is performing critical functions:
Preemptive multitasking and multithreading
Memory protection
Virtual memory management
Inter-process communication
Interrupt management
Real-time support
Kernel debugging support
Console I/O
There is also a bunch of FreeBSD-based code running in XNU, implementing essentially all the other kernel functions, including POSIX support, filesystems
Is XNU microkernel-based? That's one for the semanticists to debate. Arguably the Mach-based code is not performing microkernel functions. What is not debatable is that there are or have been Unix-"alike" OS'es baed on microkernels. Minix is one. Hurd is another. They are as Unix-alike as Linux is. I would say POSIX defines Unix-ness, and there is absolutely nothing to prevent a microkernel from implementing POSIX just as fully and faithfully as a monolithic kernel.
I don't want to call you stupid, but are you drunk or something? The assertion is that it costs one cent to ship a T-shirt across the world. A shirt you pay at least five bucks for in the store. You can bet ylour ass that shirt costs more than one cent to manufacture, even in China. That means that manufacturing it 20,000 km away as compared to 1 km away only has a penalty of 0.2% of the retail price, and still a small fraction of the manufacturing cost. Goddam right the bulk trunk transportation costs are negligible.
It costs you more to ship that T-shirt 1 km locally in small lots than it does to trunk it in bulk all the way across the world.
No wonder I can buy 100 capacitors direct from from China for a buck and have them shipped free all the way to my door. That's about as far from "enormous cost per unit volume" as you can get.
Moore's Law says nothing about core count. It says nothing about performance. It only speaks of transistor count. How you put those added transistors to use is subject to certain realities. There are real limits to how effectively you can utilize enormous core counts in general purpose CPUs in desktop or mobile use. In servers you have enormously scaled parallel use, and can make better use of them.
It looks to me like the increased transistor count has been directed mostly at ballooning RAM cache sizes.
Improved performance/power quotient is a completely orthogonal axis from Moore's Law. It is not even implied by Moore's Law.
That's more dogmatic than I would accept. I worked on a highly successful system that was full of malloc and free calls, which had to work autonomously for greater than one month submerged in the ocean with only brief surfacings with very low bandwidth RF connection. We had a lot of discipline and applied a lot of care and testing. There were times that in-service instances did crash, reboot, and continue operating, but these were rare. We did forensics to identify what happened and correct the error. I was highly impressed by the operation.
No. But std::net in the standard library implements socket support. Presumably it is assumed that the user who needs a socket is going to use this, although of course calls to a C socket libraries could be made if std::net is not sufficiently flexible.
News flash. Who doesn't use the premier standalone apps in preference to bundled apps? WTH is your point? It applies equally to KDE and GNOME, except GNOME doesn't have anywhere near the richness of bundled apps.
One exception is Kate. Kate is far superior to any other general purpose GUI editor.
Can't speak to a meaningless thought from the blue.
"Bloated" is a word that can mean almost anything. If you can specifically describe exactly what you object to, I might be able to evaluate it. If you're talking about disk usage, I would categorically snort, seeing it as a complete so-what non factor. If you're talking about RAM use, can you present specific comparisons? If you're talking about features, I give up. The concept of "too many features" is completely irrational. If what you really mean is that a wealth of features get in the way by making the app too hard to use, then in principle that could at least be a rational objection.
Christ, the whole point of KDE was that it used an excellently architected C++ core library instead of a clunky crude C core library trying to imitate OO on a flat procedural programming environment. A long time ago, before Qt went straight full free software, the whiners had a point about shying away. As it is now, why would KDE ever switch away from the best?
UI retrogression abandoning use standards is a universal hipster problem. It has nothing whatever to do with KDE. Microsoft started it, Firefox copied it, and Gnome took it up with a vengeance. KDE to this day is still a rational GUI. Windows are properly decorated, with proper controls in the proper places, no hidden now-you-see-it, now-you-don't scrollbars, and no idiotic bullshit abortions like only-the-one "current" window having a title bar, with the title bar at the top of the display.
As for "slow app loading", what piece of shit hardware are you running on? I use a mix of KDE, GTK, and other apps, and they all load instantaneously on my decidedly trailing-edge boxes. The absolute nauseatingly worst offenders for RAM bloat are Firefox and Thunderbird, which are both GTK-based.
If you've got absolute lightweight religion for whatever reason, I won't knock it. I will just point out that all the usual DEs are pigs for RAM use, and that disk space use has been a complete non-factor for at least 15 years. Even Xfce has caught the pigginess. With LXDE pretty much withering and Razor-Qt developing at a glacially-slow pace, I personally think Lumina has a lot of promise.
And in natural gas (low pollution), and some oil power plants. And you conveniently left out hydropower (zero pollution), wind power (zero pollution), solar power (zero pollution), and geothermal power (zero pollution). Nuclear "pollution" is practically zero compared to coal. Not counting accidents, nuclear "pollution" is practically zero. Coal power liberates into the environment vastly more radioactivity per GW per year than does nuclear. Contained waste is an issue rather different from liberation of pollution.
No it isn't.
Oops. Incorrect. First of all, it's not "every" locomotive. There are many all-electric locomotives. 25% by length of the world railway network is electrified. 50% of all world railway transport is carried by electrical traction. More importantly, there are essentially NO hybrid locomotives at all, because the concept is stupid. The engine use profile is very different from automobiles. Diesel-electric locomotives are simply diesel-powered locomotives with an electric transmission.
Hybrid by DEFINITION means "a vehicle that uses two or more distinct power sources to move the vehicle". For example, a Prius is capable of summing engine power plus battery power to drive the wheels. 100% of the power in a locomotive is sourced from the diesel engine. There are no batteries.
For the rest, you are entirely correct. And indeed, there is work being done on developing diesel hybrid trucks.
Nonsense. Most visible smoke is larger particles than PM10, and is not fully respirable. The cilia trap most of it before it gets to the alveoli. PM10 is relatively coarse particulates. PM2.5 is fine particulates, and below this there are superfine particulates too, and these are the more dangerous. PM2.5 and superfine particulates are a problem in gasoline engines as well, particularly the newer direct injection designs. Hysteria has just not centered on this yet.
The problem with the Phaeton was ENTIRELY predictable to anyone who had experience with the INDESCRIBABLY TERRIBLE VW dealer servicing. It's like they hire a bunch a bunch of high school dropouts with unusually low intelligence, experience, and dexterity, and then the service managers tell them in essence to cut every possible corner and not worry about following very precise procedures developed by engineering.
As a result, every time you take your vehicle in for work, it comes out in overall poorer shape, quite often with small parts missing, and just about always with fasteners re-used that are designated one-time-use-only.
On top of that, their idea of repairing a mechanical problem is to quickly come up with a list of conceivable causes for the observed problem, and then replace parts one after another until the problem goes away - telling the poor customer at the end that all of the replacements were necessary and charging him up the wazoo for all of the parts and "work". Too often, the problem is something like "does not shift right" and the corrective action is "replace transmission - remit $5,000".
It is by an enormous margin the worst dealer servicing of any vehicle manufacturer doing business in the US.
Combine this with trying to sell a very high-end model with a brand known for decades for one thing: economy. OK, maybe two things. It has also been known for shoddy engineering and build quality in certain respects. Almost everyone who examined and tested it agreed that the Phaeton was an impressive piece of design, but the price was through the roof, and exceedingly few people in the US would even considered giving it a thought.
Isn't the problem with this that javascript has to be executed (for real) in order to get any content at all for many websites? How do you tell the difference between a script downloading crap and a script downloading authentic content? This would turn into the same performance-clobbering cluster fuck as the virus/antivirus war on Windows.
Fine. I don't want to pay anything. What kind of crazy person wants to squander money on nothing? It's called "tragedy of the commons". Look it up.
I think the answer to that question is obvious. Clearly they can detect when you are not sucking on the crap feed, and take countermeasures. Continuing to transfer the crap, but sending it to /dev/null addresses that problem.
I think the question is better stated, couldn't you transfer all the ad data and just send it to /dev/null? Presto, no sounds, no flash, no gaudy images.
The bandwidth hit remains as an objection, but tell me what the is the security difference between not transferring malware, and transferring it to /dev/null.
What part of "democratic republic" do you not understand?
"Democratic" is a modifier.
A republic is a form of government in which power resides in elected individuals representing the citizen body.
A democracy is a form of government in which the people govern directly. Sometimes this is sophically termed a "direct" democracy or "pure" democracy, but it is a democracy, period. Any other kind of so-called democracy, such as a "representative" democracy is a "kinda" democracy.
You can have a democratic monarchy, too. What do you think the UK is? Hint: "constitutional monarchy" is not an accurate descriptor of the UK, because the UK has no formal constitution. It sure as hell is different from the absolute monarchy in Saudi Arabia. So far. It hasn't been completely overrun by regimented-thinking muslims just yet.
What would it take to classify the Democrat and Republican parties as outlaw corrupt political racketeers bent on sabotaging the nation's electoral process? Round up all the evil treasonous bastards. It would be the freshest breeze we have seen since 1776.
OK, cynicism does resonate with some part of me. But when is the last time the US elected a president who was not an obvious establishment sellout from long before election time? The last one I could possibly see as a possibility was JFK in 1960 - and he was debatable. One can have disagreement with various of Mr. Sanders' stands, but seeing him as a sellout is not credible.
Just because the electorate has chosen an endless series of sellouts, who were transparently obvious as sellouts at election time, is not a rational argument that all candidates would sell out if elected.
It almost makes you wonder if Wordpress is actually a secret attempt to knock over web servers.
I think you will find your script has "interesting" results if directory names with space charcters in them are involved. It wouldn't be much more effort to guard against this as a matter of principle:
find / -name xmlrpc.php -exec mv "{}" "{}.DISABLED" \;