Yes, Just like I want penalties for Jia Tan's 'contribution' to the XZ project.

Because hitting a 1lb block of wood at 66620mph hurts less than hitting a 1lb piece of metal at 66620mph? ...or is it because they think that a block of wood will rot away in the highly sterilizing environment of space?

Stopping robots is just stupid. If you post stuff publicly (non-protected webpages), then your stuff is fair game.

If you don't want robots, protect the information with logins.

"but logins will reduce our viewership" - You can't have your cake and eat it too.

"...so as to spite ZFS users."

Did you miss this part: "but licensing conflicts prevent ZFS being fully integrated into the Linux kernel."

"why does anyone think that moving the power regulation..."

Because it is better.
400W @ 12v = 33.3333A
400W @ 5V = 80A

It's a HELL OF A LOT better to pump 33A through those long wires and tiny pin contacts than it is 80A.

Also, dirty connections affect 12V alot less than 5V.

You want as high of a voltage as you can for distribution and you want to step it down as close to the load as possible.

This is why power lines run in the thousands of volts when your house only uses 240V.

Average Joes can't connect to USENET and download the groups they want. It's a private club where you have to be granted access to connect.

Therefore the companies that can connect to it charge for access. Quite expensive access for the garbage that's on it.

With all of the other sources of 'free' information on the internet, no one wants to pay for access to sift through mostly garbage.

I keep see "when are we going to get rid of systemd and bring back _x_".

First, I F-ING HATE systemd.

Second, YOU can 'bring back" whatever you want at any time. Stop using it. There's non-systemd distros that you could use.

Systemd is never going to die as long as everyone uses it. Griping about it and then still using it does no good.

BAH! I thought this was about systemd, turns out, it's just about Red-hatters getting mad about choosing the wrong distro.

You changing your work schedule will have the exact same impact without forcing everyone else to mess up a natural standard.

Having read all of the comments posted above as of this moment, let me respond.

Ignore celestial time: That's just retarded because the most important thing to everyone is: When is day time (to get stuff done)? If daytime was constantly creeping out of sync with what we would consider 'normal daytime' it would be a mess. Yes, it would be a slow creep but, why? Humans care about that, machines [generally] don't. Let the machine have the creep.

Metric time: That's retarded too and was already tried. Even the metric fan-bois gave up on that one.

Grandfather clocks, microwave ovens, etc: So what if we have to manually change them? We have to do it now for DST and it's really just an annoyance. Mechanical clocks have to be manually updated even without DST because they change time on their own with temp, humidity, and spring pressure.

UNIX time: Not a horrible idea but not the greatest either. Right idea, wrong execution. Machines can happily count seconds away. Let them do it. Pick a start point Jan 1,1970 or Jan 1, 0001 or anything you want, it doesn't matter just pick one.
"But how will they know when leap seconds are added?" Easy keep a log of it. Everyone LOVES block-chains now, right? We already keep a log of previous time/date changes.

And yes, DST is stupid. Artificially changing a natural standard all because changing working hours one hour ahead sounds too early is dumb. Switching to DST has the exact same effect you you physically as going into work an hour early, it just doesn't sound as bad.
All the world would have to do is make work hours from 7-4 and you'll get the same effect as year round DST. If you want to keep the changing time, go back to the old concept of summer vs winter hours. Both will give you that extra evening sun and NOT mess up a standard.

I bet most of the issue is caused by low-paid off-shored workers creating crap and most of those 2000 to be laid off are probably higher-paid domestic workers.

One company I was at hired out-sourced labor and the output they sent back was pure garbage. But, hey, the company saved thousands of dollars up-front (and lost their asses on the rear).

I absolutely do not get why this is an issue... Humans don't really care until it messes with the sunset.
Machines just count time. We already create machines to deal with the shit-show that is DST. Create the machines to give the 23rd hour of the day 61 seconds instead of 60.

"oh but we don't know when that's going to occur"
You can't create a protocol for dealing with interrupts for machines?

Yup. Everyone seems to think Slackware is outdated and yet, current's versions and patches tend to beat other distros.

I've been patched for days now.

...I'm just sitting back, munching on pop-corn, watching the spectacle.

"MY data center? You mean the one I live in 24 hours per day and guard with my stockpile of weapons while scanning the logs manually because I don't trust anyone else? Or the one that I trust other people to guard and secure?"

If that's your data center then, no. You are absolutely running your IT operations wrong. You are not much better than the 'big-box data centers'.

"What difference does it make whether my company pays those people via W2, 1099 or B2B purchase order/billing? There are plenty of W2 employees who talk shit about their employer and are perfectly willing to engage in theft or sabotage. Simply paying people via direct paycheck as W2 employees is not the deciding factor in whether "MY" data center is secure or not."

Because if you run your IT operations correctly, YOUR competent IT people have more control over your security. Of course, if you hire cheap, inexperienced IT people, your security is crap. To run IT correctly you need to treat IT as a asset and NOT a liability. You hire competent people and not the cheapest you can find. And you hire enough of them to keep your operations running smoothly and not burn out your workers.

"It is absolutely absurd to think that EVERY business owner and EVERY employee hired by a business owner is going to be more qualified at network and data security than every company that specializes in providing IT infrastructure, network and data security."

Please post the quote where I say this.

It's clear that you're a typical "hired above your skill level" IT manager or a cloud service provider worker because you have your head in the sand about the security risks of relying on someone else (with liability limit contracts) to host your critical services and keep your operations secure.