How true. Without even resting on the fact that these people make a far too simple argument, it just gets tiresome. How many lunch conversations I remember, according to which the days where everything was programmed in C were so much better because people needed to know what they were doing. Yeah right ... I only remember core dumps and buffer overflows. Even in supposedly quality software like CDE. The only time when I thought it was sort of interesting was when Sun used it as a marketing tool to push DTrace ... kind of unexpected. I did laugh though when Slack was mentioned. That is so true. How did they even manage to get it so slow. It's the worst performing app on my iPhone and the desktop version is not much better. Just scrolling up a couple of pages in the history seems to bring a modern PC to its limits!

must be. I'm German and I don't have anything against nuclear power. BTW I have to confirm that part of the upbringing of little children here in the past three decades has involved a lot of anti-nuclear resentments being fed to them not by their science teachers, but, funnily enough, by all the rest of the faculty who like to comment on issues they don't know anything about. One vivid memory from my own time in school was our (catholic) religious education teacher not willing to believe that the steam exiting the cooling tower of a nuclear power plant is not actually a radioactive smoke plume coming from some sort of fuel rod camp fire at the bottom of the tower! Until we managed to convince her she had probably already taught generations of children before us that kind of hogwash.

Sometimes yes, sometimes no. When the renewables are at full peak, German energy is sold for negative prices, precisely because there is little buffering capacity. This was frequently the case in 2013 and 2014 (only one example here). This has been criticized a lot here in Germany because the resulting loss is passed on to consumers, not to producers which were guaranteed fixed prices as part of a federal effort to ramp up energy production from renewable sources.

What treasures there to be found in the Usenet archives. What's the .gif they're talking about?

The whole NSA/Snowden affair was regarded as an important topic in the 2013 election by a mere 17% of the population (pre-election ARD poll).

The Pirate Party and FDP have since not stopped making a huge fuss about it, but the truth is that most Germans don't care. They probably think it'll only hit the terrorists. Same thing with CCTV in public areas, actually. If it only ever saves one pensioner from being robbed, the majority of voters are fine with it (and demand more!).

I understood it that way from day one, and couldn't believe my ears as everyone around me kept extolling what great achievement in privacy they thought it was. Really, have they all forgotten to what extent people have been busy doctoring around with their Wikipedia articles basically since the existence of the platform (or have had their secretary do so)? Does a Wikipedia article turn you into a person of public interest? And when is a piece of information "inaccurate, inadequate, irrelevant or excessive for the purposes of the data processing" as stated in the ruling? All of this is just not going to work. Thank God we can still use US sites.

Even the original case with the guy objecting to an auction notice didn't convince me at all, I mean come on, you screwed up (rather mildly in this case, I might add), so deal with it.

Very true, at least on my Azure VMs there is no working IPv6 route. I couldn't believe this at first but it was confirmed by MS customer service. So even if some customers wanted it, they wouldn't get it.

I keep pestering them, maybe it helps someday.

Whatever there may be to like or dislike about the educational system in Germany and its cost, I doubt it has changed much since any "bailing out" began (well, some local governments have removed tuition fees in recent years) , so I doubt rewinding that would have any middle-class-saving qualities. An unmarried engineer starts off with 50% tax/social contribution ratio after college; it's been like that for at least a decade.

As it stands now, taxing capital gains means taxing the middle class, as they are usually invested in capital market backed retail products.

So, there is some kind of unfair scheme being pursued by women in which they achieve an unmatchable degree of perceived physical attractiveness (hence the sexual power and the fawning), and expect equal pay on top of it?

(1) If there is, they have been failing rather badly at it over the past few decades, unless you take these 111% mentioned in TFA for granted, but I'm really not that sure about it.

(2) Your view of what's physically attractive is always biased by your own gender; meaning if you're a (hetero) man, you'll likely find an unfair advantage in attractiveness in the female; a good part of it might not have anything to do with any intent on their side. In fact, the assumption that they're guilty of making you feel attracted to them, give them presents etc. (i. e. bewitching you) is a pretty problematic line of thought. For any observable incident involving dollar-spending on the male part, an equally justifiable explanation is always that of a naive, romanticized idea of chivalry on behalf of the spender.

(3) Wouldn't any agenda that aimed at getting better treatment by physically appealing to the other gender cancel itself out once 50% of all management positions were held by females? So all we have to do is sit down and wait...

Ha, same here. Was working part time back then, visiting the occasional lecture, plus all this drinking in the dorm, had a junk PC myself, and only Suns in the lab... OK they could run GLQuake and Crossfire but that wasn't my cup of tea... Now as a full-time employee I somehow have a lot more spare time...

Quite true, actually I think in Debian this is already supported for the system boot sequence at least since Squeeze.

Together with dash being the default /bin/sh now, it already boots pretty fast, I don't see the startup time being a major factor in this decision.

It's probably more because of the fact that systemd now reaches into areas beyond pure service control that forces Debian to either follow that move or switch to another alternative that has enough manpower behind it.

Even assuming this was true despite it sounding like a Gene Hunt quote, on /. it's not the most striking argument...

For my part, I'm not a girl and I currently have a bunch of bike-riders sitting a few meters down the hall from my office, and on some days I smell the sweat coming out of their offices whenever I have to go past them. OK maybe it's not them but the colorful mountainwear they hang over their chairs, but it's pretty bothersome. When 2000 people are packed in one building there ought to be some standards. (This also means no offensive fragrances, of course.)

I think that a government that is likely to give you socialist healthcare is also not likely one that is going to disband an agency like the NSA, mainly because it's not one to disband any agency. (If the situation here in Europe can be any indicator.) The "perfect" laissez-faire society would be the one without an NSA. Now granted there is no such thing in the real world and it would just mean going over that civil vs. economic liberty thing again. But still. Hiding away talented mathematicians and engineers like that is just a waste of taxpayer money.