I've been lasered when flying my plane. The beam is big at these long distances, so ti isn't a tiny beam going into your eye, it lights up the cockpit and looks like a very bright point of light. Since your eye focuses the light to a point, lasers can be dangerous at fairly low power levels.
In a plane even if the beam is not damaging it is very distracting, and distraction is a major cause of aircraft accidents. in my case they kept the beam on the plane for many seconds so it was clearly intentional.
Its pretty common - several pilots I've spoken to have been lasered. This is the second time its happened to me.
Sounds like there's money to be made by an enterprising individual that creates a coating that blocks key frequencies or at least scatters them reasonably well without obstructing the wind screen's optics too much. Being that this is dealing with avionics, I'd imagine the testing and licensing would take years though. Do you think pilots would find any value in that at some reasonable (relatively speaking - owning a plane or boat is like hooking your wallet up to a vacuum) price?
While I agree with what you said, there is a valid "more advanced" reason to avoid conditionals with many languages; if your conditionals are such that you're checking against a set of attributes or behaviors consistently, it might be better to remove the conditional and use a polymorphic object in place of the 'if... then' or 'case' statements.
This is, of course, provided that the language that you are using has an object model that makes this possible, easy, and more legible than the conditionals. I doubt kids learning how to code are receptive to this though as most junior programmers aren't ready to make this leap.
It's a good thing Microsoft never changes anything then. Remember why you changed away from them in the first place?
Yes, Microsoft changes things - I don't deny that in the least bit. The difference is they nearly always announce it years ahead of time and stick to that schedule. I can't recall Microsoft completely screwing up since they phased out VB{A}6 for VB.NET, but I honestly don't use their products much, so I may be missing something obvious.
There might be disinterest because it was a 'hidden setting' (at least for the longest time). I know I wasn't using it because it stopped working for no reason about two months ago. I assumed they just broke it like they do the rest of their stuff every time they touch something and force the update, or discontinue something I found useful. Forgive me while I rant for a moment...
These days I don't invest any time in anything Google does because I know it's going to be perpetually half broken until the day they silently drop it or decide to screw it up a la Maps while the community screams at the top of their lungs that the new version is shit. My theory on Google is that it isn't run by software engineers and sysadmins anymore, but rather by UI and UX focused kids straight out of school.
I have patches in the Linux kernel and I can't freakin' figure out how to send a text to a person I know since they mangled Google Voice into Hangouts. As an added bonus, when I send a call with Google Voice it no longer allows me to, you know, select which phone it should call me on - that's exactly half of the dialer's job and they couldn't get that in the product requirements apparently. I get more angry every time I log into voice.google.com to set which phone to call and there's a banner across the top that reminds me that I should use the Hangouts interface for using Voice. This is the quality of engineering left at Google.
My final "no shits to give" moment was when they discontinued the NaCL plugin architecture in Chrome with a smug "we told you a long time ago we were going to do this, you should have migrated your stuff." To which I wanted to wipe the smug away with a hammer while shouting "I didn't write our hardware vendor's frakkin' web client, I can't rewrite it and we need to be able to access IPMI interfaces for hundreds of boxes out in the field!" Needless to say, we're transitioning away from our Enterprise Google Apps/Docs/Domain account back to Microsoft (again). Those stories aren't related in any way other than I didn't bother putting up a fight when we were acquired and it was decided we'd use MS Office - I suspect I'm not the only one that didn't want to burn political capital on Google.
I am a supporter and committer; my name is on a couple of files in the Linux source. If you're saying that doesn't make me a True Scotsman, then so be it. Why would Linux be a good choice if suspending is a coin flip? Because I don't suspend servers or a handful of other devices Linux supports. I'll stop supporting Linux when < 95% of what I want to do just works perfectly fine and Java is a first class citizen on Windows or BSD; I'll also need Python, Ruby and Perl to be painless to install and run. I'll switch my file server to BSD, like my router/firewall, when it offers me something over Slackware. Also, there's the issue of a few hundred Linux servers, VMs and appliances we have all over the world in my work life.
I accept the suspend thing on my Fedora/Linux Mint dual boot because it's my secondary desktop that I have Steam installed in Linux Mint for gaming and my backup development environment/testing/VM setup on. I boot between the two of those enough that I don't hibernate often. I'll suspend to RAM if I'm going back to what I'm doing within the day, otherwise I just shutdown.
For me, bottom line, the things Linux gets wrong are mostly annoyances and on the whole the OS makes my life better. YMMV of course, but for my use cases the good vastly outweighs the bad. I'll agree though that some of the bad is pretty darn ugly; I'm in complete agreement that SystemD is crap. I want to kill that part of the stack with fire.
Currently I've got a dual boot Fedora/Linux Mint. Fedora 20 suspend currently works with my RAID setup, 19 didn't, haven't tried 21 yet. Currently, Linux Mint 17 suspends, but doesn't resume and trying to boot the Fedora install after suspending the Mint install causes a reboot when Fedora starts the first time (it clears the suspend signature I assume because the second boot succeeds). I think it doesn't understand my bootloader chaining (Mint has GRUB-1, Fedora has Grub-2, the GRUB-2 chain loads the GRUB-1 to boot Mint IIRC, it's been a while since I set it up).
Granted, my setup is very unique because I'm sharing swap and/home between two boots and dealing with one having modules for LVM and the other booting a raw partition and both sharing a RAID array for swap, so I'm always delighted when it works. Then you add in the two bootloaders and you get craziness. But these are setups that are expected to work in the wild.
Disclaimer: I have a patch in Linux, but I don't know anything about this section of code at all, I only know what I've heard. I will try to explain it as I understand it from a high level though; just take it with a grain of salt as for how accurate it is.
As I'm sure you're aware, the resume process has to do everything in a precise order because some subsystems rely on others to be awake before they can proceed. Every driver has to interact with less traversed paths of code and they have to work on sometimes obscure hardware where the documentation doesn't exist or is wrong (think reverse engineered drivers), and every piece has to work more or less flawlessly or the rest of the chain can't load.
As I understand it, the state of the machine is written out to page file and has to be loaded back from there and then run as if nothing had happened. Consider just the case of software that doesn't behave correctly when the system time jumps ahead a couple of hours mid computation. I've had issues with KDE not being able to wake up from screen saver (maybe USB didn't reinitialize correctly and it can't see my mouse/keyboard inputs?) or the screen not coming back without power cycling my monitor after thawing out the state.
There's a lot that can go wrong, and it seems it usually does. I know even Windows sometimes has issues when I close my laptop and head into the office - sometimes it remains running the entire time (I think VirtualBox is the cause - but I can't reliably reproduce, so I'm not sure).
Suspend is such a complicated feature that touches every part of the stack. I've found it works about 50/50. Every now and then I try it and it works for a while until a kernel update breaks it, eventually I try again in a few months and it's working again. I wouldn't support it if I wanted to remain sane.
Sometimes when I'm stuck in rush hour between my apartment in St. Paul and my office in Minneapolis I watch the cyclists and light rail passengers fly by me with great envy. Unfortunately I sold my bike before moving out here from PA. Minneapolis is as bike friendly as it is dog friendly.
To be fair, I have seen some terrible abuses of the preprocessor that made parsing code a difficult venture. Granted, C++ is one of those languages where it doesn't just let you shoot yourself in the foot; it'll load the gun, aim it for you and then cheer you on. But, like operator overloading, with experience (usually) comes wisdom. Most people use the preprocessor tastefully after maintaining something where it was abused. I don't know what he's on about in regards to changing binaries, but I'd bet he also like systemd.
Seconded - I work in R&D at a tech company in Minneapolis and our department has a lot of pull and nearly final say in many things since we write the core software the company uses to sell services.
Centurylink has been sending me monthly junk mail about gigbit connections being available in West Saint Paul; every time I try to throw money at them they offer me 4 mbit service for the price I'm getting 60 mbit from Comcast. I'm house shopping in downtown west Minneapolis simply based on proximity to our Minneapolis office and connectivity at this point. I could buy where they all say they're expanding to, but at the moment they're not even in the neighborhoods they think they're in.
8% is nothing, but it holds more weight than "[...] It's far easier to come up with insane looking percentages if the starting point is somewhere near zero" as a counter argument without a single citation for the assumption upon which your argument against lacking numbers appears to hinge. That being said, both are technically true statements that actually express nearly nothing. I wasn't going to respond, but I'm a little bit disappointed as I usually enjoy (and agree with, to varying degrees) your posts.
Full disclosure, Philly area ex-pat, living and writing software in the Twin Cities (we have 4 software engineer positions open up in the R&D department in the last 4 months since being acquired back in October), having turned down a Fortune 10 Silicon Valley firm that couldn't offer me what I get here (subjectively and partially objectively speaking).
If you don't mind moving to the Twin Cities (we have negative unemployment in theory for software engineers, there are more spots than we can find talent - it's a pretty good gig for us out here), we've got a couple of spots open in our R&D department. Don't worry about what languages you know, we're looking for full stack developers and assume you can learn or adapt - our core is Java, but we use a handful of languages and only care that you're really good with one and can fumble through the others. My boss, the head of R&D, is a legit alpha geek and has clout in the company like you wouldn't believe. We're isolated from the rest of the company and its politics for the most part.
Ping me if you want more info. Full disclosure, if someone I recommend gets hired and stays on for a year, I get a bounty of ~$1k.
Right. We're all being "manipulated" into thinking that flying guns might not be such a great idea. Because how in the world could anyone come up with that idea on their own?
I'm not at all arguing that point. I don't even particularly care one way or the other. I'm more fascinated that everyone is so busy arguing over over everything other than this blatant leveraging of the situation.
Hear me out. I'm saying that if they wanted to arrest the kid, they would. They're intentionally publicly saying 'Gee, nothing we can do about this! If only we had some new laws for this new technology...'. I guarantee if they weren't playing that angle they'd just arrest him regardless of whether a crime has been committed or not as people got up in arms about the whole thing. This is an opportunistic play for more resources the way I'm seeing it.
"It appears to be a case of technology surpassing current legislation."
They're intentionally not finding a reason to arrest him and they tell you why right there. They want new laws. This is an underhanded attempt at manipulating the public and I very much suspect it will work if the comments on this story are any indication.
Probably right. But from the comments it also does seem that he clearly broke the letter of the law unintentionally. So there is already a law against this. Just because a law is broken, however, doesn't mean that a crime was committed or that charges should be filed. This is an obscure law, at most the ATF should just issue a clarification that this is illegal under existing law.
That would be very reasonable. I'm very sure it also doesn't allow a new large budget to be appropriated and I almost guarantee the police are actually looking for new toys and less restrictions along with a bigger budget. I'd bet you a beer my interpretation is much closer to what you're going to see if the recent pattern holds. I am pretty sure of this: that quote wasn't an off the cuff remark; it clearly was a call for action while giving the preferred solution in a thinly veiled way.
OTOH, I'll be the first to admit that I very well could be wrong. We'll see how it plays out.
"It appears to be a case of technology surpassing current legislation."
They're intentionally not finding a reason to arrest him and they tell you why right there. They want new laws. This is an underhanded attempt at manipulating the public and I very much suspect it will work if the comments on this story are any indication.
I say this as someone that runs ZFS on his backup/file server; if you do have to restore or resilver it can take a long while! A single slow drive in a vdev will limit the entire pool's IO (the extent of which is entirely dependent on topology, but the weakest link always crushes you in ZFS). After a handful of TB of data, even with a pool of mirrored vdevs and a flash cache device, the resilver for a single drive can take a day unless you've got some serious spindle count at high RPMs. Even SAS drives don't provide that many IOPS.
Agreed. I'd like to see the look on their face when they realize they have enough power for racks of servers but not nearly enough cooling. We've actually got a staging area at work where all of the power comes into the building, but it's only got enough cooling for a couple of racks (and not dense racks, at that) full time and then a couple of racks meant for short tests. Running everything full for any lengthy amount of time probably wouldn't fly even in the Minnesota winter with the receiving garage door open. To be fair, the room wasn't created for racks of full time servers on purpose.
My family is Swedish on my father's side (I'm American, about three generations removed). As I think about it, I'm not even sure what exactly Sweden exports. If I remember correctly your military even imports most of their equipment.
Anyways, you guys have a pretty direct democracy, couldn't you vote this down? Or is this a consequence of "too much democracy" and this is what the Swedes, as a whole, want?
I disagree with half the stuff you say, but I value your comments and still find great bits of insight in a lot of them. For instance, whenever you rant on Linux I usually read the entire post. Usually I agree with about a quarter of it, disagree with the rest and find things to think about on both accounts. I believe that you have a reasonable take even on things you don't necessarily like and usually avoid descending into 'troll' territory even when arguing. That's the kind of stuff I've only been able to find on Slashdot and why I keep coming back.
BTW, have you run your yearly "try Linux again" experiment recently? If not, don't bother with Fedora 22 - as a developer and avid Linux user/committer I can tell you it's pure crap driven by UX dorks. Very nearly completely unusable. Try a SUSE Linux build next time around. They haven't completely jumped the shark yet and still provide a reasonable, user friendly, stable build.
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I've been lasered when flying my plane. The beam is big at these long distances, so ti isn't a tiny beam going into your eye, it lights up the cockpit and looks like a very bright point of light. Since your eye focuses the light to a point, lasers can be dangerous at fairly low power levels.
In a plane even if the beam is not damaging it is very distracting, and distraction is a major cause of aircraft accidents. in my case they kept the beam on the plane for many seconds so it was clearly intentional.
Its pretty common - several pilots I've spoken to have been lasered. This is the second time its happened to me.
Sounds like there's money to be made by an enterprising individual that creates a coating that blocks key frequencies or at least scatters them reasonably well without obstructing the wind screen's optics too much. Being that this is dealing with avionics, I'd imagine the testing and licensing would take years though. Do you think pilots would find any value in that at some reasonable (relatively speaking - owning a plane or boat is like hooking your wallet up to a vacuum) price?
While I agree with what you said, there is a valid "more advanced" reason to avoid conditionals with many languages; if your conditionals are such that you're checking against a set of attributes or behaviors consistently, it might be better to remove the conditional and use a polymorphic object in place of the 'if ... then' or 'case' statements.
This is, of course, provided that the language that you are using has an object model that makes this possible, easy, and more legible than the conditionals. I doubt kids learning how to code are receptive to this though as most junior programmers aren't ready to make this leap.
It's a good thing Microsoft never changes anything then. Remember why you changed away from them in the first place?
Yes, Microsoft changes things - I don't deny that in the least bit. The difference is they nearly always announce it years ahead of time and stick to that schedule. I can't recall Microsoft completely screwing up since they phased out VB{A}6 for VB.NET, but I honestly don't use their products much, so I may be missing something obvious.
There might be disinterest because it was a 'hidden setting' (at least for the longest time). I know I wasn't using it because it stopped working for no reason about two months ago. I assumed they just broke it like they do the rest of their stuff every time they touch something and force the update, or discontinue something I found useful. Forgive me while I rant for a moment...
These days I don't invest any time in anything Google does because I know it's going to be perpetually half broken until the day they silently drop it or decide to screw it up a la Maps while the community screams at the top of their lungs that the new version is shit. My theory on Google is that it isn't run by software engineers and sysadmins anymore, but rather by UI and UX focused kids straight out of school.
I have patches in the Linux kernel and I can't freakin' figure out how to send a text to a person I know since they mangled Google Voice into Hangouts. As an added bonus, when I send a call with Google Voice it no longer allows me to, you know, select which phone it should call me on - that's exactly half of the dialer's job and they couldn't get that in the product requirements apparently. I get more angry every time I log into voice.google.com to set which phone to call and there's a banner across the top that reminds me that I should use the Hangouts interface for using Voice. This is the quality of engineering left at Google.
My final "no shits to give" moment was when they discontinued the NaCL plugin architecture in Chrome with a smug "we told you a long time ago we were going to do this, you should have migrated your stuff." To which I wanted to wipe the smug away with a hammer while shouting "I didn't write our hardware vendor's frakkin' web client, I can't rewrite it and we need to be able to access IPMI interfaces for hundreds of boxes out in the field!" Needless to say, we're transitioning away from our Enterprise Google Apps/Docs/Domain account back to Microsoft (again). Those stories aren't related in any way other than I didn't bother putting up a fight when we were acquired and it was decided we'd use MS Office - I suspect I'm not the only one that didn't want to burn political capital on Google.
I am a supporter and committer; my name is on a couple of files in the Linux source. If you're saying that doesn't make me a True Scotsman, then so be it. Why would Linux be a good choice if suspending is a coin flip? Because I don't suspend servers or a handful of other devices Linux supports. I'll stop supporting Linux when < 95% of what I want to do just works perfectly fine and Java is a first class citizen on Windows or BSD; I'll also need Python, Ruby and Perl to be painless to install and run. I'll switch my file server to BSD, like my router/firewall, when it offers me something over Slackware. Also, there's the issue of a few hundred Linux servers, VMs and appliances we have all over the world in my work life.
I accept the suspend thing on my Fedora/Linux Mint dual boot because it's my secondary desktop that I have Steam installed in Linux Mint for gaming and my backup development environment/testing/VM setup on. I boot between the two of those enough that I don't hibernate often. I'll suspend to RAM if I'm going back to what I'm doing within the day, otherwise I just shutdown.
For me, bottom line, the things Linux gets wrong are mostly annoyances and on the whole the OS makes my life better. YMMV of course, but for my use cases the good vastly outweighs the bad. I'll agree though that some of the bad is pretty darn ugly; I'm in complete agreement that SystemD is crap. I want to kill that part of the stack with fire.
Currently I've got a dual boot Fedora/Linux Mint. Fedora 20 suspend currently works with my RAID setup, 19 didn't, haven't tried 21 yet. Currently, Linux Mint 17 suspends, but doesn't resume and trying to boot the Fedora install after suspending the Mint install causes a reboot when Fedora starts the first time (it clears the suspend signature I assume because the second boot succeeds). I think it doesn't understand my bootloader chaining (Mint has GRUB-1, Fedora has Grub-2, the GRUB-2 chain loads the GRUB-1 to boot Mint IIRC, it's been a while since I set it up).
/home between two boots and dealing with one having modules for LVM and the other booting a raw partition and both sharing a RAID array for swap, so I'm always delighted when it works. Then you add in the two bootloaders and you get craziness. But these are setups that are expected to work in the wild.
Granted, my setup is very unique because I'm sharing swap and
As I'm sure you're aware, the resume process has to do everything in a precise order because some subsystems rely on others to be awake before they can proceed. Every driver has to interact with less traversed paths of code and they have to work on sometimes obscure hardware where the documentation doesn't exist or is wrong (think reverse engineered drivers), and every piece has to work more or less flawlessly or the rest of the chain can't load.
As I understand it, the state of the machine is written out to page file and has to be loaded back from there and then run as if nothing had happened. Consider just the case of software that doesn't behave correctly when the system time jumps ahead a couple of hours mid computation. I've had issues with KDE not being able to wake up from screen saver (maybe USB didn't reinitialize correctly and it can't see my mouse/keyboard inputs?) or the screen not coming back without power cycling my monitor after thawing out the state.
There's a lot that can go wrong, and it seems it usually does. I know even Windows sometimes has issues when I close my laptop and head into the office - sometimes it remains running the entire time (I think VirtualBox is the cause - but I can't reliably reproduce, so I'm not sure).
Suspend is such a complicated feature that touches every part of the stack. I've found it works about 50/50. Every now and then I try it and it works for a while until a kernel update breaks it, eventually I try again in a few months and it's working again. I wouldn't support it if I wanted to remain sane.
Sometimes when I'm stuck in rush hour between my apartment in St. Paul and my office in Minneapolis I watch the cyclists and light rail passengers fly by me with great envy. Unfortunately I sold my bike before moving out here from PA. Minneapolis is as bike friendly as it is dog friendly.
To be fair, I have seen some terrible abuses of the preprocessor that made parsing code a difficult venture. Granted, C++ is one of those languages where it doesn't just let you shoot yourself in the foot; it'll load the gun, aim it for you and then cheer you on. But, like operator overloading, with experience (usually) comes wisdom. Most people use the preprocessor tastefully after maintaining something where it was abused. I don't know what he's on about in regards to changing binaries, but I'd bet he also like systemd.
Seconded - I work in R&D at a tech company in Minneapolis and our department has a lot of pull and nearly final say in many things since we write the core software the company uses to sell services.
Apropos Centurylink in the Cities, see my post below : http://tech.slashdot.org/comme...
Centurylink has been sending me monthly junk mail about gigbit connections being available in West Saint Paul; every time I try to throw money at them they offer me 4 mbit service for the price I'm getting 60 mbit from Comcast. I'm house shopping in downtown west Minneapolis simply based on proximity to our Minneapolis office and connectivity at this point. I could buy where they all say they're expanding to, but at the moment they're not even in the neighborhoods they think they're in.
8% is nothing, but it holds more weight than "[...] It's far easier to come up with insane looking percentages if the starting point is somewhere near zero" as a counter argument without a single citation for the assumption upon which your argument against lacking numbers appears to hinge. That being said, both are technically true statements that actually express nearly nothing. I wasn't going to respond, but I'm a little bit disappointed as I usually enjoy (and agree with, to varying degrees) your posts.
Full disclosure, Philly area ex-pat, living and writing software in the Twin Cities (we have 4 software engineer positions open up in the R&D department in the last 4 months since being acquired back in October), having turned down a Fortune 10 Silicon Valley firm that couldn't offer me what I get here (subjectively and partially objectively speaking).
So, basically a variation on the theme of Adobe Air?
If you don't mind moving to the Twin Cities (we have negative unemployment in theory for software engineers, there are more spots than we can find talent - it's a pretty good gig for us out here), we've got a couple of spots open in our R&D department. Don't worry about what languages you know, we're looking for full stack developers and assume you can learn or adapt - our core is Java, but we use a handful of languages and only care that you're really good with one and can fumble through the others. My boss, the head of R&D, is a legit alpha geek and has clout in the company like you wouldn't believe. We're isolated from the rest of the company and its politics for the most part.
Ping me if you want more info. Full disclosure, if someone I recommend gets hired and stays on for a year, I get a bounty of ~$1k.
Right. We're all being "manipulated" into thinking that flying guns might not be such a great idea. Because how in the world could anyone come up with that idea on their own?
I'm not at all arguing that point. I don't even particularly care one way or the other. I'm more fascinated that everyone is so busy arguing over over everything other than this blatant leveraging of the situation.
Hear me out. I'm saying that if they wanted to arrest the kid, they would. They're intentionally publicly saying 'Gee, nothing we can do about this! If only we had some new laws for this new technology...'. I guarantee if they weren't playing that angle they'd just arrest him regardless of whether a crime has been committed or not as people got up in arms about the whole thing. This is an opportunistic play for more resources the way I'm seeing it.
"It appears to be a case of technology surpassing current legislation."
They're intentionally not finding a reason to arrest him and they tell you why right there. They want new laws. This is an underhanded attempt at manipulating the public and I very much suspect it will work if the comments on this story are any indication.
Probably right. But from the comments it also does seem that he clearly broke the letter of the law unintentionally. So there is already a law against this. Just because a law is broken, however, doesn't mean that a crime was committed or that charges should be filed. This is an obscure law, at most the ATF should just issue a clarification that this is illegal under existing law.
That would be very reasonable. I'm very sure it also doesn't allow a new large budget to be appropriated and I almost guarantee the police are actually looking for new toys and less restrictions along with a bigger budget. I'd bet you a beer my interpretation is much closer to what you're going to see if the recent pattern holds. I am pretty sure of this: that quote wasn't an off the cuff remark; it clearly was a call for action while giving the preferred solution in a thinly veiled way.
OTOH, I'll be the first to admit that I very well could be wrong. We'll see how it plays out.
"It appears to be a case of technology surpassing current legislation."
They're intentionally not finding a reason to arrest him and they tell you why right there. They want new laws. This is an underhanded attempt at manipulating the public and I very much suspect it will work if the comments on this story are any indication.
I say this as someone that runs ZFS on his backup/file server; if you do have to restore or resilver it can take a long while! A single slow drive in a vdev will limit the entire pool's IO (the extent of which is entirely dependent on topology, but the weakest link always crushes you in ZFS). After a handful of TB of data, even with a pool of mirrored vdevs and a flash cache device, the resilver for a single drive can take a day unless you've got some serious spindle count at high RPMs. Even SAS drives don't provide that many IOPS.
Agreed. I'd like to see the look on their face when they realize they have enough power for racks of servers but not nearly enough cooling. We've actually got a staging area at work where all of the power comes into the building, but it's only got enough cooling for a couple of racks (and not dense racks, at that) full time and then a couple of racks meant for short tests. Running everything full for any lengthy amount of time probably wouldn't fly even in the Minnesota winter with the receiving garage door open. To be fair, the room wasn't created for racks of full time servers on purpose.
My family is Swedish on my father's side (I'm American, about three generations removed). As I think about it, I'm not even sure what exactly Sweden exports. If I remember correctly your military even imports most of their equipment.
Anyways, you guys have a pretty direct democracy, couldn't you vote this down? Or is this a consequence of "too much democracy" and this is what the Swedes, as a whole, want?
I disagree with half the stuff you say, but I value your comments and still find great bits of insight in a lot of them. For instance, whenever you rant on Linux I usually read the entire post. Usually I agree with about a quarter of it, disagree with the rest and find things to think about on both accounts. I believe that you have a reasonable take even on things you don't necessarily like and usually avoid descending into 'troll' territory even when arguing. That's the kind of stuff I've only been able to find on Slashdot and why I keep coming back.
BTW, have you run your yearly "try Linux again" experiment recently? If not, don't bother with Fedora 22 - as a developer and avid Linux user/committer I can tell you it's pure crap driven by UX dorks. Very nearly completely unusable. Try a SUSE Linux build next time around. They haven't completely jumped the shark yet and still provide a reasonable, user friendly, stable build.
For those of us who have no idea what you're talking about but are curious, can you expand upon this?