Well in this case, get some education before you post in ignorance. No it doesn't require a lot of code changes for applications to work. Why would you say that? Did you even bother to read the interview? Daemons don't require any changes either, though you can compile your daemon to use libsystemd to do backwards-compatible socket registration. In other words a daemon can be configured to use socket registration if it runs under systemd, but it will fall back to normal sockets without. So no backwards compatibility is lost.

Systemd requires only 3 parts to run: the init process, udev, and journald (which can write to syslog still) for early boot debugging. NOTHING else is required. And none of this pushes *any* special requirements on applications. Pottering himself says he has no idea where this notion that Gnome depends on systemd comes from. It should work fine on ConsoleKit. The problem could be that the Gnome devs haven't been maintaining the ConsoleKit code.

I also should comply with RFCs too as my cert appears to violate part of one RFC. Problem was I'm not an SSL expert so I didn't know where to look. In any case, the devs have been fairly responsive on bugzilla to this issue and I've received a lot of help, which really impressed me. I've also suggested that in the future, the failure modes of SSL verification, particularly in Thunderbird, should pop up more descriptive messages than simply "unknown error occurred." Ideally a utility to check certificates against the now stricter and more correct criteria would be ideal.

Except that your diagram shows the US side doesn't use ammonia either for interior cooling; just water. Or am I reading that wrong? Obviously there must be a heat transfer point where the water cooling loop transmits heat into the ammonia cooling loop for external radiation. If that point is inside somewhere, that could be a point of potential leak I suppose.

You must specify units. Republican or Democrat?

This sort of thing could never work in the US or Canada. I'm sure there are places where cell networks don't exist such as mountainous, remote areas. However this technology could never be deployed here, even on a small scale, because we've decided the spectrum shall be privately owned (which is absurd), and therefore the same companies that won't put up cell towers in certain out of the way places will also sue the life out of anyone who would dare put up a tower, even if they have no presence there whatsoever. And legally they would be exactly right. The spectrum should never ever have been sold off. Only licensed and regulated to prevent conflicts. But what's done is done. We all have to live with the consequences of this and many other short-sighted actions.

"Do you want an apple or an orange? You can only have one or the other." In english "or" does have the connotation you describe. Human brain fuzzy logic I suppose.

Hmm I just found out that Firefox over 31 changed the way certificates are handled and now all my internal certs signed by own CA are broken. Can't even get an exception dialog box. Just an error about how it can't load the page. And from the bug reports, it sounds like a lot of devices are broken now too. Arguably I should comply with some 46-page document on CA Cert best practices. What a mess. Why does Firefox and Google keep pushing the idea that self-signed certs are not secure? In any case, with radical changes to core things like the SSL engine, how can any enterprise deal with Firefox?

I'm using PaleMoon 25 on Linux (64-bit) and am pretty happy with it. Unlike Firefox, on Linux it defaults to highlighting the url and seach box contents when you click on them, which makes middle-click pasting impossible. Fortunately for the URL bar, there's a setting to not highlight it on click (browser.urlbar.clickSelectsAll). For the search box for now I use a add-on to add a clear button to the box. People talk like the highlight then middle click feature of X11 is an outdated feature that's quaint and hardly used. To me that's one of X11's greatest features, next to remoting apps over ssh. I will sorely miss it when everyone converts to Wayland, as it would have to be implemented in the toolkit on wayland, and I don't know of any of the toolkits (GTK, Qt) that are planning to implement it.

Apparently Firefox 33 or something changed the way certificates are handled, and self-signed certificates may not work as they did before with a warning and allowing a permanent exception. This has bled over into Thunderbird now too and I'm working through an issue where Thunderbird 31.3.0 won't accept my own internal certificates signed by an internal CA anymore (just says cannot connect to server). Hopefully this stuff gets sorted out in Firefox.

Okay, maybe that's true, but come on, referencing a slashdot article as a citation? I hadn't read up on this before, so it was interesting. Apparently filtering technology does exist to filter gasoline particulates.

Any time I think of a cash register bell, I think of the classic intro to "Are You Being Served."

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But gasoline doesn't produce the same soot. Plainly put, diesel particulates are more toxic than particulates from gasoline combustion. Modern diesels, however, are much, much more clean than older diesels. I drove a diesel rental car in Turkey recently that was diesel and its exhaust just smelled like steam.

Diesel engines have two problems when it comes to pollution. Particulates and NOx emissions. Particulates can be eliminated with by increasing the heat and pressure of combustion. That takes care of most immediate, toxic product of combustion right there. However, increasing heat and pressure also leads to more N2 reacting with O2 to make NOx, which causes smog and acid rain, also serious human health concerns. If you go the other way and cool combustion way down, you can virtually eliminate NOx, but you get tons of particulates. So either reduce NOx by cooling combustion with recirculated exhaust gasses and stick on a filter to catch and burn particulates (the dreaded regen cycle that truckers can tell you about), or turn up the heat and treat NOx separately using a catalyst, urea. Most auto makers are finding that urea into the exhaust works best because the engine can be super simple again. However the big problem with this is that in northern climates (most of the western world), cars don't drive far enough to warm up completely, so you still have unwanted pollution.

Gasoline (petrol) does emit some particulates but they seem to not be as dangerous. Petrol engines also emit NOx but modern catalytic converters convert it to N2 and water.

And of course all fossil fuels emit net CO2. Biofuels can theoretically be carbon neutral, but if they are diesel-like (burn in a diesel engine) they still very much have the same pollution issues as diesel, and will have to be treated in the exact same way, using EGR, SCR (with urea), or some other technology. Likewise gasoline-like biofuels will still have to have the same pollution control systems as regular gasoline engines.

The firmware has always been a possible vector for infecting a computer with malware, and we know the NSA has done it for years. This OS X bootkit shows one method of getting the malware into the firmware. I'm sure on many PCs the NSA could just flash a new BIOS, probably with the full support and help of the firmware manufacturers.

It surprised me to learn that laptops from popular manufacturers like Lenovo ship with a piece of BIOS-based malware called Lojack. Used as a method of theft prevention, once activated it can infect a fresh install of Windows with tracking software. Was quite an eye opener to me.

Certainly in this post-Snowden era, I certainly trust my devices a lot less. Every little device is a computer these days with its own firmware. Who knows what runs there. A brave new world indeed. Looks like writing passwords down on paper is probably the most secure thing after all.

HOAs are kind of like unions. Yes you know about them up front, but you can't do anything to opt out, except buy elsewhere. If an HOA is completely opt-in, then I'm okay with it. More and more, though, HOAs are thinly disguised vehicles for keeping property prices artificially inflated. I'm kind of surprised they have the power to force a home buyer to become a part of it (except in the case of a condo complex perhaps, or an area where the grounds are kept by a third party).

Each astronaut who flies on the Soyuz, even if it's just a return journey, has to be trained and checked out in Russia for these craft. Though most landings happen without incident, it's not some simple, routine thing to land in Soyuz. Things can and do go wrong, and each person in Soyuz has to know what to do. So even crew members that arrived on the shuttle had to be checked out on the Soyuz, whether that was for escape purposes, or for the regular ride home. The same thing would be required for crew the Dragon ferries up.

I'm not sure how long Dragon is allowed to remain in space. Would be nice if they could use it as an emergency exit as well.

I'm sure research into this is ongoing, but we desperately need some better treatments for depression. Anti-psychotics just aren't working. Perhaps it's because the entire industry has started using drugs as a crutch, rather than addressing core problems, and maybe this would end up being the same thing. I dunno.

But as someone who suffers from depression, and has loved ones with serious depression, I would welcome anything that would provide these loved ones with some relief and help them be their normal selves again.