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  1. Re:No there's not. This is the EU. on Europe Passes Controversial Online Copyright Reforms (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Wrong. The EU -does- have a parliament elected by the people directly.

    Get your facts straight.

    Having said that, I believe this is a dark day for an open internet in the EU.

  2. Systemd has no merits on Debian Package Maintainer Steps Down, Complaining About 'Old Infrastructure' (stapelberg.ch) · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Systemd has no merits. The sooner it is sent to /dev/null, the better.

    Systemd - do everything badly, preferably all at once, svchost style.
    Init - do one thing that you're good at, compliant with the true UNIX philsosophy.

  3. Re:EU Type protection for all users on Facebook To Put 1.5 Billion Users Out of Reach of New EU Privacy Law (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Ask again later.

  4. Re:Longevity of code/interface on Microsoft Open-Sources Original File Manager From the 1990s So It Can Run On Windows 10 (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Other standards at the same time did, in particular the Common Desktop Environment. The X11 protocol still works and Motif was open sourced so you can still run 1993 Motif apps on a modern X system. For a given value of run...

    CDE was opensourced a while ago as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  5. Re:28,000 CDs?!?! on Electronics-Recycling Innovator Faces Prison For Extending Computers' Lives · · Score: 1

    Windows is not a virus.

    A virus is well-programmed.

  6. Re:True, not an exhaustive list. The fifth factor on Electronics-Recycling Innovator Faces Prison For Extending Computers' Lives · · Score: 1

    It is true those are the four factors that MUST be considered. A court CAN consider other factors. Indeed a judge, and police as well, often consider the universal factor "is he being a bad guy or a good guy?" The letter of the law only goes so far - judges also seek justice, most of the time. (Obviously in plea bargains the judge never hears the case, but that's a different topic entirely.) ...

    Plea bargains are a perversion of justice and should be abolished sooner rather than later, together with other perversions of justice like capital punishment and strict liability offenses.

    If a prosecutor has to resort to tactics such as plea bargaining, his case is very weak to say the least and there is 99% chance that the suspect is innocent of the crime he is being accussed of.

  7. Re:B5 on Why the World Only Has Two Words For Tea (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Not many fishes, left in the sea,
    Not many fishes, just Londo and me!

  8. There is no plant-based 'meat' (or 'beef', etc.) on Should Plant-Based Meat Replace Beef Completely? (pbs.org) · · Score: 1

    There is no plant-based 'meat' of 'beef', etc.

    Meat, beef, chicken, fish, and any other (edible) animal based food product contains essential amino-acids that you cannot easily get from plant-based substitutes. Scrapping these food stuffs from your diet means a lifetime of taking supplements for the essential chemical ingredients of your own body you are then missing out on.

  9. Short answer: YES! on Does Systemd Make Linux Complex, Error-Prone, and Unstable? (ungleich.ch) · · Score: 0

    Short answer: YES!

    No further explanation needed.

    The sooner the abomination called systemd is given a one-way ticket to /dev/null, the better. You know what? Even /dev/null deserves better than that.

  10. The problem with bitcoin is... on Here's Why People Don't Buy Things With Bitcoin (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    The main issue with bitcoin is simply that it is not real money.

  11. No crime is so severe that it justifies a government sanctioned murder.

  12. If an application is quit it should be unloaded on Public Service Announcement: You Should Not Force Quit Apps on iOS (daringfireball.net) · · Score: 1

    People should not have to resort to drastic measures like force quit. If an application is exited, it should be removed from RAM completely, not 'frozen' or forced to the background.

    There is a simple, valid reason (and design principle), for this: security. I do not believe for a second that an application that is 'frozen' has to stay that way, and I can think of at least a dozen ways for an app that is 'frozen' to be activated in the background. And once it is running in the background, who knows what vulnerabilities it exposes to the outside environment?

    It is a design principle that I see lacking in both Android and iOS.

  13. Good luck getting WinDOS to run in Long Mode.

  14. I would not buy an iPhone on Would You Buy the iPhone 8 If It Cost $1,200? (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    Period.

  15. Re:How do install systemd? on Devuan Jessie 1.0 Officially Released (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Except that last I checked, Slackware does not use systemd. Gratefully.

  16. Reminds me of Roger Taylor's 'The Unblinking Eye' on UK Group Fights Arrest Over Refusing To Surrender Passwords At The Border (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1
  17. Two different movies on Slashdot Asks: What's Your Favorite Sci-Fi Movie? · · Score: 1

    Best sci-fi movie: Blade Runner
    Most beautiful movie: 2001: A Space Oddysey.

  18. Re:MSX on Ask Slashdot: What Was Your First Home Computer? · · Score: 1

    Mine too! A Goldstar FC-200.

  19. Re:1Password on Ask Slashdot: Should You Use Password Managers? · · Score: 1

    Maybe he's Willy from the original V series. He also had a peculiar memory.

  20. Re:do care somewhat on Ask Slashdot: What Would Happen If All Software Ran On All Platforms? · · Score: 1

    Android is Linux.

  21. Re:Trump doesn't run borders on US-Born NASA Scientist Detained At The Border Until He Unlocked His Phone (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Checks and balances...

  22. Re:Easy for them to do on The Netherlands Opts For Manual Vote-Count Amid Cyberattack Fears (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    More like 17 milion people.

    Nevertheless, a fantastic idea that should be adopted by other countries as well.

  23. Blatant violation of the individual's rights on France Begins Opt-Out Organ Donation (theoutline.com) · · Score: 2

    Especially the right to the integrity of one's body.

    Death has now become a taxable event and one's organs are the fee.

  24. "Hell, where the softer bits of your nether regions, are everybody else's favourite lunch!"

  25. Global warming is basically a misnomer. The concept of global temperatures rising in the past hundred years or so has been debunked many times now. However, climate change - other than that caused naturally - is a fact, especially with global weather patterns becoming more and more erratic and local weather patterns becoming more and more extreme as a result of that.