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  1. Re:Lies on NASA, NOAA: 2014 Was the Warmest Year In the Modern Record · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yes, because one would never actually want to read what the experts in any field have to say, but rather go to some blog populated by people who have no idea what the fuck they're talking about.

    Me, if I get a tumor, I'm going to go straight to my nearest witch doctor.

  2. Re:call me skeptical on NASA, NOAA: 2014 Was the Warmest Year In the Modern Record · · Score: 1, Insightful

    The contradiction is due to the cherry picking of data that is the source of this Koch Brothers-bought-and-paid for meme.

  3. Re:Fork it all on Systemd's Lennart Poettering: 'We Do Listen To Users' · · Score: 1

    I honestly don't comprehend this. The "Unix philosophy" was always about the toolset, and never, so far as I was aware, applied in such a way to the kernel. Why should it? There are a number of different *nix kernels; from RTOS-types to limited hypervisors to monolithic kernels to microkernels (and hybrids of the two), to compatibility layers running on top of completely alien kernels like POSIX on top VMS and CYGWIN on Windows.

    Or, to put it simply, that particular defense of systemd is fucking retarded.

  4. And what exactly would stop me, for instance, from using "non-approved" encryption for, say, my VPN end points?

  5. Reading David Cameron's speech from a few days ago, it drives home just how stunningly ignorant of technology the majority of politicians are. How would one even limit encryption? Ban mathematicians and programmers? The British government, in particular, is being run by possibly one of the stupidest people to ever be in charge of a modern democracy.

  6. Re:RTFA on Systemd's Lennart Poettering: 'We Do Listen To Users' · · Score: 1

    It's called BSD, and most of or production servers will be running it this year.

  7. Re: Pope Francis - fuck your mother on Pope Francis: There Are Limits To Freedom of Expression · · Score: 1

    What if I put up a sign in my front yard saying "Fuck the Pope's mother."

    Does the Pope have a right to come and punch me in the face?

  8. Re: Pope Francis - fuck your mother on Pope Francis: There Are Limits To Freedom of Expression · · Score: 1

    What if I do it in my house? Does he still have a right to kick in the door and punch me, or gun me down?

  9. Re:Pope Francis - fuck your mother on Pope Francis: There Are Limits To Freedom of Expression · · Score: 0

    And why can't he say it's okay to blaspheme? If Yahweh is all-powerful as he appears to believe, then what possible harm could come from some mere mortal insulting him?

  10. Re:Pope Francis - fuck your mother on Pope Francis: There Are Limits To Freedom of Expression · · Score: 1

    What he should be saying is "Punching people in the nose because they have offended you is evil, and people who believe that is an appropriate response are the most repugnant creatures on earth."

  11. Re:Pope Francis - fuck your mother on Pope Francis: There Are Limits To Freedom of Expression · · Score: 1

    So the consequences of free use of free speech is you get gunned down?

    That kinda makes not free.

  12. Re:Pope Francis - fuck your mother on Pope Francis: There Are Limits To Freedom of Expression · · Score: 1

    The substance of the argument is "There are always these sacred cows, so don't tip them!"

    My response is that every sacred cow should be tipped every once in a while.

  13. Re:Pope Francis - fuck your mother on Pope Francis: There Are Limits To Freedom of Expression · · Score: 2

    Pope Francis is the head of the Catholic Church. He has no hold over me, no authority over me, and I have absolute freedom to ignore him or ridicule his views.

  14. Re:Pope Francis - fuck your mother on Pope Francis: There Are Limits To Freedom of Expression · · Score: 1

    Fuck Mohammed, fuck the Pope, fuck Yahweh, fuck Krishna, fuck Thor, and fuck every single person who thinks their fucking stupid taboo somehow has more rights than my right to mock them. Fuck every single god, prophet and holy man that has ever existed, does exist, or ever will exist. Fuck them singularly and together. Fuck religion.

  15. Re:Fuck Me on SystemD Gains New Networking Features · · Score: 1

    What we want is the choice. It is the systemd advocates trying to poison the well.

  16. Re:Fuck Me on SystemD Gains New Networking Features · · Score: 0

    Kind of hard to do on Debian.

  17. Re:Apparently Not on Samsung In Talks To Acquire Troubled BlackBerry For $7.5 Billion · · Score: 1

    Before Blackberry throws the offer out the door, they should ponder Yahoo's tossing of Microsoft's offer back in Redmond's face a few years ago, and how it has done nothing to stem the decline?

  18. Re:What a monstruous... on SystemD Gains New Networking Features · · Score: 1

    Just where a Goatse t-shirt.

  19. Re:Fuck Me on SystemD Gains New Networking Features · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Yes, I can see it now. A stripped Linux kernel will boot, and then in turn will boot the SystemD-OS. The whole thing will be like DOS 3.3 and Windows 3.1, except CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT will be binary files that require special userland tools to decode and manipulate.

  20. Re:Fuck Me on SystemD Gains New Networking Features · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I want an init system. I cannot fathom why an init system needs to do IP forwarding and routing.

  21. Re:Noob developers don't know when to stop coding on SystemD Gains New Networking Features · · Score: 1

    I wish these asshats would go work for Microsoft or Oracle. Those companies deserve this diseased monolithic kind of project development.

  22. Re:systemd... on SystemD Gains New Networking Features · · Score: 2

    I'm already heading out the door. New database server is FreeBSD, and probably our Postfix relays within the next couple of months. Routers will stay Linux for a while, I suppose, but that will be about it.

  23. Re:Why are you reading these comments? on SystemD Gains New Networking Features · · Score: 2

    Cybernetic terminators are in the next release, I'm sure, along with seeding the galaxy with DNA, and a beer recipe database.

  24. Re:Fuck Me on SystemD Gains New Networking Features · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'm sure they do. But FreeBSD doesn't have a massive init system intruding itself into every single aspect of the operating system.

    Just what the fuck is SystemD supposed to be?

  25. Re:Will SystemD feature creep ever stop ? on SystemD Gains New Networking Features · · Score: 5, Funny

    Just wait for SystemD VM Hypervisor. It will be SystemDs all the way down.