Password cracking is easy because the majority of people uses a short, guessable password (insert correcthorsebatterystaple XKCD here).

With a $500 GPU you can guess close to 2M dictionary variation passwords per second (that is dictionary words with things like 0 and o replaced). The LastPass may be 12x hashed or whatever they say it is, it is relatively trivial for 8 character passwords.

Medicare wasnâ(TM)t a GOP policy, fixing it seems to always fall on the GOP and taking away benefits has always been a political poison pill regardless of whether it is actually affordable, so a middle ground is letting companies do Medicare but then you get these kinds of monstrosities that handle the information for virtually all citizens (because the governments need to track and forecast how many billions to pump into the system or else it will go broke).

If you like government run healthcare so much go wait in line in Canada or the UK. Hope your broken bones donâ(TM)t set before a nurse will see you.

We could end up with a future where Apple allows sideloading everywhere but China...

They wonâ(TM)t be punished because the entire Medicare/Medicaid system depends on this system and the policies that created the databases were demanded by government policy.

If the government wasnâ(TM)t involved in health care, you wouldnâ(TM)t get these too big to fail monopolies and people would be permitted to have pseudonymous and anonymous records which could be publicized in a blockchain.

The problem has been solved, you just need to permit citizens to not use government ID for every transaction.

"We need to stop calling things that aren't copyleft "open source" - because they aren't"

Yes, they are.

"Open Source" doesn't mean you can do anything with the sources. It means you can see them. Some of us were using the phrase for years before the OSI even existed.

Hydro is just a big battery, it doesnâ(TM)t address year-long issues. 10GW is not something you put in terms of hydro, that is 10 small nuclear reactors worth of power.

Cringe to who? People who don't know shit about Microsoft, Bill Gates, the relevant history, or the computing ecosystem in general? Fuck 'em, Slashdot is not for them.

But that's super dumb, because they run the site. They can track every click and collect browser info without adding anything to their pages, and as an added bonus, they aren't giving their tracking info away to others when they do that.

Probably more like they are putting ads on Faceboot and having the tracking pixel on their site makes it so that they can get clickthrough stats in the same interface as they post the ads.

Uranium and other fissile material is found across the globe, it is a waste product in coal, hence why coal emissions are 'radioactive' and increase the chances of obtaining (lung) cancer.

What you are listing is current commercially viable and licensed deposits. There are deposits in Belgium, Netherlands, France and many other "old coal mines" that under current circumstances are not viable due to cheap mining in places like the 13th place - which disproves your own statement.

The EU courts don't believe so, they have established themselves to be sovereign over the other nations, which implies they are now a country with states subservient to their federal government.

PAM doesn't do LDAP or sudo, PAM only passes along messages, you need the sudo schema in LDAP if you want to manage sudo properties through LDAP.

This isn't something you should be able to opt out of... it should be something that shouldn't even be permitted to exist.

I'm yet to hear of another banking system that will provide merchants with your new card detail, in Australia and the UK it's clear that updating continuing payments is 100% the end users responsibility. The bank will not and cannot legally divulge any information about you to merchants. The closest we've got to it is that if I changed banks using the switching scheme here in the UK my direct debits and standing orders are moved over automatically, however those I can cancel completely from my end with no hassle. Any payments made using my card are my responsibility to update.

He spent years fighting Free Software by fraudulently equating Open Source with it, on the basis that another member of the OSI allegedly coined the term "Open Source" which was around for well over a decade before then.

This is the next logical step; Having succeeded at this original goal, now he is trying to declare that Open is dead, and long live Post-Open.

Open is not dead, it does what it was supposed to do: Specifically, it shares knowledge about how to do things. But it doesn't do what Free Software does, which is to give the actual user a good chance to have updates which they can actually use. And it never, ever did.

In fact, systemd frequently doesn't work. I had a boot problem that I could only have resolved using a debugger, as I tracked the problem down to systemd itself. At that point I lost interest and switched to Devuan. No systemd, no systemd problem.

We needed more options than we did before because some of the best ones were contaminated with systemd. For example Debian, so now I have to run Devuan. It's an entire distribution which didn't even need to exist if only Debian hadn't gone to the dark side. And what's crazy is that you can still change Debian to use sysvinit if you want, but then a bunch of stuff doesn't work because of all the systemd-dependent tweaks in Debian. And literally the only reasons they went to it were 1) GNOME, which sucks now anyway and 2) because writing init scripts was too hard for Debian package maintainers. Shell scripting is a central Unix feature, so this was only a move to let people who don't understand Unix make contributions which they also don't understand.

Having more options isn't positive when the new options are just bad, AND they make more people have to do more work. cgroups can be manipulated with shell commands. startpar already lets you start services in parallel with sysvinit. We didn't need systemd.