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  1. Re:New version! on Linux Kernel Switching To Linux v4.0, Coming With Many New Addons · · Score: 1

    Mine can't even start a swap partition if it's in fstab, if it happens to be an LVM volume. So glad distros decided it was production ready.

  2. Re:Same deal as Petraeus? on Snowden Reportedly In Talks To Return To US To Face Trial · · Score: 1

    Yes, your national enemies. aka, the American People. Oh, and all the other non-criminal citizens of the world.

  3. Re:Jail time on Hillary Clinton Used Personal Email At State Dept., Possibly Breaking Rules · · Score: 2

    Like she's even going to get charged. Get real.

    Holder deliberately gave guns to Mexican drug lorgs and didn't get charged. I don't think Hillary using her personal email is going to get Obama to turn on her ... lol.

  4. Re:Facts not in evidence on NSA Director Wants Legal Right To Snoop On Encrypted Data · · Score: 1

    The intent of the Constitution is perfectly clear. It is only weasel lawyers that want to find a way around it, to oppress and enslave, who find it confusing.

  5. Re:Actually, ADM Rogers doesn't "want" that at all on NSA Director Wants Legal Right To Snoop On Encrypted Data · · Score: 1

    The people who want to hide from the US will not include your backdoors in their systems. The backdoors only serve to allow the NSA (and possibly anyone else) to read Americans' communications.

  6. Re:Pointless on Removing Libsystemd0 From a Live-running Debian System · · Score: 2

    My servers run 100% software that I can get and modify the source code for when required. I'd say he's done a great job.

  7. Re:complex or fragile? on Is Modern Linux Becoming Too Complex? · · Score: 1

    The kernel is more reliable. Userland is definitely getting worse.

  8. Re:or simpler on Is Modern Linux Becoming Too Complex? · · Score: 1

    Yeah except now it's a single binary with 100 configuration files. Half of which just run a shell script anyway, because you need one to get the job done.

    And I don't even mind that it replaces init, init sucked, but that it's that it's hijacking ntp, login control, syslog, cron, and any number of other tools that just worked before systemd.

  9. Re:Just one step closer to becoming Windows on Is Modern Linux Becoming Too Complex? · · Score: 1

    Recent versions of systemd have hijacked syslog. I don't know about opensuse, but on Gentoo I had to go and tell systemd to send me my logs back to a real syslog daemon.

  10. Re: Honestly... on Valve's Economist Yanis Varoufakis Appointed Greece's Finance Minister · · Score: 1

    Yes, I meant exactly what I said. Without constant inflation, you could save money from working and retire on it. With inflation, you are instead forced to invest that money, generally in financial instruments, and hope that it grows at least as fast as inflation (plus whatever taxes and fees you get charged for the privilege of having your money keep up with inflation). Inflation therefore punishes savers.

    The rich have much greater access to and control over productive assets. They control the financial sector, which gains most of the benefits of saver's money being forced into investments. Constant inflation is the largest cause of growing wealth inequality.

  11. Re: Honestly... on Valve's Economist Yanis Varoufakis Appointed Greece's Finance Minister · · Score: 1

    If you consistently increase the money supply faster than the rate of economic growth, people stop thinking your money is legitimate. Economists call that inflation, and it's used to devalue non-productive savings and make borrowing cheaper, which combined means it's just a way to make rich people richer. It screws everyone else and eventually the inevitable result is a currency crisis.

  12. Re:This doesn't sound... sound on Valve's Economist Yanis Varoufakis Appointed Greece's Finance Minister · · Score: 1

    Borrowing and spending only makes sense if the borrowing leads to enough additional income in the future to justify paying off the interest on the loan. That generally means infrastructure spending, for infrastructure that is actually needed to create real growth.

    Borrowing for anything else just makes you poorer in the long term.

  13. Re: Honestly... on Valve's Economist Yanis Varoufakis Appointed Greece's Finance Minister · · Score: 2

    What Europe calls austerity, everyone else calls living within one's means. Which, in the long term, is non-optional.

  14. Re:Lets blame google! on Google Handed To FBI 3 Wikileaks Staffers' Emails, Digital Data · · Score: 2

    Good luck with that. Ratings agencies can't even give an honest appraisal of the country's debt without getting dragged into lawsuits and being forced to fork over billions of dollars in penalties. Any company that actually defied the police state would be out of business within a week.

  15. Re:The Dangers of the World on Parents Investigated For Neglect For Letting Kids Walk Home Alone · · Score: 1

    At 10 I could bike anywhere I could reach. I had my own boat, and a gas account at the marina, and would frequently be out all day.

    I usually bussed to school, because it was a couple of miles, but I could and did walk or bike it fairly often.

    I'm astonished at how coddled most children are, these days. No wonder everyone's scared all the time.

  16. Re:Gov warnings of lack of encryption on US/UK Will Stage 'Cyber-Attack War Games' As Pressure Against Encryption Mounts · · Score: 1

    http://www.spiegel.de/internat...

    Read that. All of it. And then come back and tell me what their mission statement is.

  17. Re:Cameron passed the NSA test on US/UK Will Stage 'Cyber-Attack War Games' As Pressure Against Encryption Mounts · · Score: 1

    Would Quebec be enough? Please, take it.

  18. Re:Industrial Revolution on The Anthropocene Epoch Began With 1945 Atomic Bomb Test, Scientists Say · · Score: 1

    Yeah I'd put it in the late 1700's.

    http://naturalpatriot.org/wp-c...

  19. Yeah I was mostly joking. The one time I was called I served willingly. Most of the other people on my jury were idiots, though. Seriously.

  20. Re:and when BSD moves to systemd... on Ask Slashdot: Migrating a Router From Linux To *BSD? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Only if you're an idiot who can only point and click gui buttons and whose solution to any problem is to reboot.

  21. Re:and when BSD moves to systemd... on Ask Slashdot: Migrating a Router From Linux To *BSD? · · Score: 5, Informative

    The comparison to Windows NT is because systemd insists on binary logs, takes over vast chunks of functionality that it has no business touching, and makes it basically impossible to debug problems. It makes the experience of administering the server much more like administering Windows than administering Linux should be.

  22. Re:Jurors on There's a Problem In the Silk Road Trial: the Jury Doesn't Get the Internet · · Score: 1, Funny

    Yeah, these are people too stupid to get out of jury duty. Probably not educated professionals.

  23. Re:What special about beliefs if they're religious on Pope Francis: There Are Limits To Freedom of Expression · · Score: 1

    You have to protect religion, or else certain sects of Christians pass laws that oppress everyone else just for believing in a slightly different sky faerie than they do, or even for not believing in sky faeries at all. Protecting everyone's beliefs or the lack thereof is the only way to keep the meddlers out.

  24. Re:Classroom participation on Education Debate: Which Is More Important - Grit, Or Intelligence? · · Score: 1

    My grade 12 math teacher basically gave me a 0, dropping me 20%, for participation and attendance. Despite having a 95% test average that term. So for the rest of the year I brought no work to class and just sat and read a paperback. I figured I couldn't do worse than 0. Man that pissed her off.

    Probably not the best way to handle it, but screw teachers who punish good students for not doing things their way.

  25. Re:Why bother? on Ask Slashdot: Is an Open Source .NET Up To the Job? · · Score: 1

    All utterly irrelevant, since virtually any real application behind that is going to be doing at most a few hundred requests per second per core.

    Web server differences are only relevant for serving tiny static files, or possibly a messaging app with millions of otherwise cheap requests coming in.

    Also, most sites offload image and static file serving to a CDN.

    I guarantee that 99.9+% of real sites will see no performance difference between Apache and Nginx.