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  1. Re:The GPL is asinine on Bruce Perens Warns Grsecurity Breaches the Linux Kernel's GPL License (perens.com) · · Score: 1

    This means that merely linking your own original code with GPL code (that remains open source) and distributing it requires that you also release your own original code under the GPL.

    No it doesn't. Nvidia do this with their binary kernel module and have done for a very long time. The deciding factor is distribution.

  2. Re: Does Anyone Use That? on Bruce Perens Warns Grsecurity Breaches the Linux Kernel's GPL License (perens.com) · · Score: 2

    Anonymous cowards protesting how Grsecurity have been so badly abused by everyone. Diddems. How predictable.

    They chuck patches they *know* won't be accepted upstream, whinge that they are being exploited when someone tries to make them palatable and rinses and repeats the whole process because they know it would destroy their pointless value proposition otherwise. As Linus said, their patches are utter garbage. They can either put up or shut up.

  3. Does Anyone Use That? on Bruce Perens Warns Grsecurity Breaches the Linux Kernel's GPL License (perens.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Grsecurity is snakeoil dogshit.

  4. Re:From all of us Linux greybeards: on 'Severe' Systemd Bug Allowed Remote Code Execution For Two Years (itwire.com) · · Score: 1

    It is not a lie I'm afraid. The argument is that there is *too much* in PID 1. PID 1 should spawn other process and be done. That's it.

  5. Re:No, its not a pretty decent idea on 'Severe' Systemd Bug Allowed Remote Code Execution For Two Years (itwire.com) · · Score: 1

    Alas, many people have warned of these types of things surfacing with systemd's sprawling feature creep. This is only going to get worse, despite your desperate protestations. The code, and the attitude towards security problems, is exactly the same regardless of where it sits in systemd's monolithic mess.

  6. Re:From all of us Linux greybeards: on 'Severe' Systemd Bug Allowed Remote Code Execution For Two Years (itwire.com) · · Score: 1

    Funny. I'm not seeing any arguments here. Only a whole load of psychological issues about how the whole world is so bitter and twisted against systemd.

  7. Re:Software is shite on 'Severe' Systemd Bug Allowed Remote Code Execution For Two Years (itwire.com) · · Score: 2

    Cognitive dissonance translation: You're stuck with it.

  8. Re:No, its not a pretty decent idea on 'Severe' Systemd Bug Allowed Remote Code Execution For Two Years (itwire.com) · · Score: 2

    'Unix' is used in this case to reference a particular philosophy of many small, decoupled systems doing specific jobs. Linux systems, and other 'Unix' derivatives, have followed that philosophy. systemd is a very sharp departure.

  9. Bloody Useless on Marissa Mayer, Yahoo's Ex-CEO, Says She's Looking 'Forward To Using Gmail Again' · · Score: 4, Insightful

    She didn't design shit herself and it's exceptionally sad that she is claiming that she did, but that's what useless people who get found out do.

  10. There is no 'AI' on Ask Slashdot: What Types of Jobs Are Opening Up In the New Field of AI? · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Like 'self-driving' cars AI is a scam and my eyes glaze over when I hear anyone mentioning it. It's usually a clueless investor or someone with something to peddle. All we have are systems with an ever increasing number of if statements. There is no true AI and won't be for a very long time.

  11. Of Course on More Than Half of US Workers Didn't Use Up Their Time Off Last Year (qz.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    US workers are absolutely terrified of taking time off lest it gets used against them in a review and they get fired and replaced at a moment's notice. How many people really think anyone at Netflix or elsewhere takes advantage of the ludicrous notion of 'unlimited holidays'? But hey, the American dream........

  12. Re:Pull The Other One on British Airways CEO Won't Resign, Says Outsourcing Not To Blame For IT Failure (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    ROTFL. Anyone can be an airline 'executive' by the looks of it. Maybe that could be outsourced?

  13. Utter Crap on UK Tech Visas Quadruple After Applications Soar (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    We don't have any skills shortage. All this is about is hiring cheap labour and sweating them for hours.

  14. Pull The Other One on British Airways CEO Won't Resign, Says Outsourcing Not To Blame For IT Failure (bbc.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Cruz thinks he can get people to pay BA prices while slashing costs back beyond budget airline levels. He had form on this with Iberia. Meals cut, added extras cut on long haul flights, crew on zero hour contracts who aren't being paid with cancelled flights and all the IT staff within Britain being fired. No staff give a shit, and why should they?

    Fuck you Alex. I hope this kills BA off.

  15. Re:When... on Apple's Jonathan Ive Says Immigration Vital For UK Firms (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    This might be the case in the USA, but in the UK the non-EU skilled migrant system is pretty tough to get through.

    EU passports are like arseholes. Everyone has got one ;-).

  16. No on Is Russia Conducting A Social Media War On America? (time.com) · · Score: 2, Informative

    This is mental insanity because there isn't any evidence at all of electoral fraud, vote rigging or coercion of voters. You know, the kind of hard evidence you'd need to substantiate an allegation of 'hacking' or 'influencing' the election.

    All we get is this kind of brain damage about completely unsubstantiated Russian 'bots' and some bizarrely incredibly mind control project Putin has.

  17. It Will Change Nothing on IBM is Telling Remote Workers To Get Back in the Office Or Leave (wsj.com) · · Score: 2

    IBM can come up with as many pointless management changes as they like, but it won't alter the fact that this is a sinking company that does very, very, very little that is of any real use to anyone. Most of IBM's so-called activity is totally pointless and they've had a succession of clueless CEOs on exorbitant paypackets, none more so than the current brainless moron at the helm.

  18. Spraying shit into clouds to alter them and the weather is a whacked out conspiracy theory....isn't it?

  19. Re:I have a dream on 95% Engineers in India Unfit For Software Development Jobs: Report (gadgetsnow.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I don't know why it has to be branded as racist and India is an irrelevance to the point. The fact is, when companies scrape the bottom of the barrel for least cost this is what they get.

  20. Scam on Toyota Unveils Plan For Hydrogen Powered Semi Truck (rdmag.com) · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Hydrogen powered vehicles are a scam. From the hydrogen production to the non-existent storage and transportation network, they just aren't going to happen.

  21. Pretty Obvious What the Timebomb Is... on Former Sysadmin Accused of Planting 'Time Bomb' In Company's Database (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They're using Oracle.

    .....and, backups??! But of course, that's a silly question.

  22. Re:Tradeoffs on 'No Turning Back' on Brexit as Article 50 Triggered (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    It was. Britain's membership of the EC, and then the EU, has never been clear as to what Britain gets out of it. The Europeans get to protect their industry and agriculture.

  23. Challenger and Columbia were not dissimilar. Like Soyuz 1 a lot of people were very well aware of the problems that could occur, and had in the case of Columbia, and they chose to do nothing. You then got a lot of virtue signalling about space exploration being 'worth the risk' and every moon shot being a triumph of technology, and other such crap from people who have no clue whatsoever.

    Soyuz 1 did show how vital Korolev was. Not only was he a brilliant technologist but he also needed to be an exceptional politician when dealing with the Kremlin.

  24. Indeed. Very good series. This is also a very good watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  25. The history of Soviet and Russian rocket design beyond just the headlines is really interesting. The closed cycle rockets that we have today, that at one point no one thought possible, came about from the Soviet moon programme. Korolev realised that they simply didn't have the time or resources to design a new engine comparable to the F-1 so he had to cluster together thirty smaller rocket engines. Even then, to get the lift necessary the cycle had to be closed, so the Soviets embarked on a long trial and error research and development project (and some massive explosions) which resulted in the NK-33.

    On face value the Soviet moon programme was a failure, but this was arguably its greatest contribution. It's all the more remarkable since the Soviet leadership wanted to hide any notion they had ever had a moon programme so ordered everything scrapped. Soviet engineers hid around sixty NK-33 engines in a warehouse until they were re-discovered over twenty years later.