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  1. Re:The GPL on Why Was Linux the Kernel That Succeeded? · · Score: 1

    Systemd crowd is working hard to take away the option of using non-sytemd tools. And by the way, "write your own" is not an acceptable answer. No one can write every tool he needs to use the system.

  2. Re:The GPL on Why Was Linux the Kernel That Succeeded? · · Score: 0

    So, you can not read, too. Why I am not surprised?

  3. Re:Meh on Why Was Linux the Kernel That Succeeded? · · Score: 1

    If the "community" is worse off because of more freedom, then may be that community isn't so great and I for one don't care about such community at all.

  4. Re:The GPL on Why Was Linux the Kernel That Succeeded? · · Score: 2

    You are changing the subject. "The whole initscripts mess" may or may not work outside the init infrastructure. But each individual script will, which is precisely the point. On the other hand, none of systemd components will work outside systemd. So please stop your shilling.

  5. Re:The GPL on Why Was Linux the Kernel That Succeeded? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Aaand that is simply false. Why systemd shills won't just stop lying, I wonder?

  6. Re:Meh on Why Was Linux the Kernel That Succeeded? · · Score: 2

    It's pretty misleading to state as fact that BSD license, which is more permissive than GPL, "pushes them into forking".

  7. Re:The GPL on Why Was Linux the Kernel That Succeeded? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Try "all of them"

  8. Re:The GPL on Why Was Linux the Kernel That Succeeded? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Well, no it isn't. Those "small executables" can not function outside the systemd infrastructure. Moreover, systemd people keep trying to expand the range of software that will not build on non-systemd platforms. Please stop your shilling.

  9. Re:this isn't going to make you safe. on DHS Wants Access To License-plate Tracking System, Again · · Score: 1

    Yes, there is. It's called "fiduciary duty". Look it up some day, sunshine.

  10. Re:this isn't going to make you safe. on DHS Wants Access To License-plate Tracking System, Again · · Score: 1

    Nice bit of shilling for corporate America. Did you learn to do it on your marketing job, perchance?

    The officers of public corporation are charged by law to maximize the shareholder profit. If they stray from that duty in any significant way to actually do good, rather than appear to be "socially responsible" as a part of PR strategy, they will face shareholder lawsuits, hostile takeovers and removal by shareholder vote.

  11. Re:this isn't going to make you safe. on DHS Wants Access To License-plate Tracking System, Again · · Score: 1

    Corporations are forbidden by law to have any motive other than profit. If immortal, soulless legal person concerned solely with profit is not the very definition of evil, I don't know what is.

  12. Re:this isn't going to make you safe. on DHS Wants Access To License-plate Tracking System, Again · · Score: 1

    > That's not even counting the for-profits who worry as much about doing the Right Thing as they do
    > about profits.

    I have a very nice bridge available for a low, low price. Interested?

  13. Re:this isn't going to make you safe. on DHS Wants Access To License-plate Tracking System, Again · · Score: 4, Interesting

    "Not being government they are probably safer" ?

    What an astonishingly ignorant statement. Billions of corporate propaganda clearly have had profound effect on Americans.

    Corporation is by design and law fascist, top-down hierarchical organization that is unaccountable to public, and forbidden by law to have any motivation except profit motive. That is safer than however flawed and limited checks-and-balances of the government?

  14. Re:"Forget about the risk that machines pose to us on An Open Letter To Everyone Tricked Into Fearing AI · · Score: 2

    AI is just as much a threat as rogue unicorns. And about as likely to be encountered

  15. Re:Mislead on Quadcopter Drone Packs First All-Linux Autopilot · · Score: 1

    Maybe so, but they are selling it with claims that more powerful linux board may be used to additional things like robotic vision while running autpilot at the same time/

  16. Re:Mislead on Quadcopter Drone Packs First All-Linux Autopilot · · Score: 1

    Wrong wrong wrong. Distinction between hard and soft realtime is not the minimum latency, it's about guaranteeing the latency. Linux provides no such guarantee and is inappropriate for the job.

  17. Re:writer doesn't get jeopardy, or much of anythin on Alva Noe: Don't Worry About the Singularity, We Can't Even Copy an Amoeba · · Score: 1

    Well - no, they did not. A single neuron is complicated and poorly understood at present. The network of 300 of those is not understood at all. The lego robot that you referenced is a primitive lookalike thta does not fully reproduce the behaviour of real worm.

  18. Re:When they say "market", they mean large corps on Amazon Isn't Killing Writing, the Market Is · · Score: 1

    Damn, confused them with techdirt

  19. When they say "market", they mean large corps on Amazon Isn't Killing Writing, the Market Is · · Score: 1

    "Techcrunch" and particularly their head honcho Masnick are unapologetic corporate shills.

  20. Re:Errors on The Flaw Lurking In Every Deep Neural Net · · Score: 1

    Except that it isn't an "error" in the way most people understand it. The neural net works correctly and as designed.

    What is in error is the designers' and users' expectation that NN classifies things in the way that is "reasonable"
    to a human. Which means, in turn, that the status of the whole discipline must be considered questionable.

  21. Re:Cramming 20 commands into one line ... on Wolfram Language Demo Impresses · · Score: 1

    It's also 3d-printed

  22. Re:mathematica? on Wolfram Language Demo Impresses · · Score: 1

    What the AC said. Mathematica language itself is rather buggy and outdated, and I shudder to think about stuff like "natural language processing" built on top of it.

  23. Economists on Nobel Prize Winning Economist: Legalize Sale of Human Organs · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Now they presented us with a spirited defense of high-tech cannibalism. That is no surprise to anyone at the least familiar with those people. The whole profession of economics is morally and intellectually suspect, and the Chicago school - particularly so.

  24. Re:Freedom of thought on App Detects Neo-Nazis Using Their Music · · Score: 1

    Used to be that in order to keep the peace, your village had to pay tribute to the local evil empire, and whatever they asked for they received.

    Whereas nowadays, your village has to pay tribute to the IMF, and those who refuse, are branded "undemocratic" and bombed with cruise missiles. Yes, humanity progressed a long way.

    Today to keep the peace, the US issues foreign aid.

    Keep it. I mean, seriously. The world is much better off with out your "aid"

  25. ObPi on UCSD Students Test Fire 3D-Printed Metal Rocket Engine · · Score: 1

    It only counts if they used "Raspberry Pi" to control the firing.

    (no hipsters were hurt in the production of this post)