I'm not really sure what your point is or what extremes you're referring to. You also seem to be unaware that floppy disks vary hugely in size. Common sizes on PC hardware varied from 360 KiB up to 1.44MiB. Obviously, one would need three of the former to hold as much as one of the latter. Perhaps you're trying to imply that what I said was incorrect.

According to http://www.maketecheasier.com/...:

All of this is beside the point, which is that every Linux-based operating system has required many times the storage space claimed in the article.

You are correct that there have been Linux-based operating systems that fit in a MiB or two. That is more than one hundred times the size claimed in this ridiculous article.

Yeah, that's what I assume.

So, Contiki's pretty small, though not as small as the article claims LiteOS is. Contiki's not based on Linux either, so nothing you've said is relevant.

You've obviously never built Linux. The kernel image size is at least one MiB and usually several. It's never been as small as 10 KiB.

And how big is the Perl interpreter? On my system, /usr/bin/perl is 11KiB and that doesn't include shared libraries or a kernel. No Linux kernel image, let alone an entire OS, has ever been as small as 10KiB. The story is completely bogus.

The claims are ludicrous on their face. No Linux-based has ever been as small as 10KiB. Even the earliest distributions of Linux-based operating systems in the early 1990s required a couple of floppies.

So, why don't we need to worry about White Walkers from Canadia?

The details are sparse, but it doesn't sound to me that the specific doctor was any more to blame than the IT people. It's hard to imagine how deactivating one machine would expose private information if that information were on properly secured systems in the first place. The scenario I'm can easily imagine is that the machines with private information were accessed with insecure protocols and all the doctor in question did was to plug them into a more public switch or router.

I have no doubt that the North Korean government is repressive, murderous and generally not nice guys. However, whenever someone uses the phrase "crime against humanity," I wonder exactly how many humans are in a humanity. Do the Russian and Chinese governments manage to come in just under the limit, while North Korea goes over? That seems extremely unlikely, given the relative populations of those countries. Maybe it's defined by a fraction: a government can repress up to half of its citizens and just be seen as somewhat evil, but 51% becomes a crime against humanity?

I don't suppose you have any links to back that up? I suppose the failure of communism at the state level means we'll never be able enjoy the plethora of video games uncorrupted by capitalism.

That's a very odd way to put it. Most of us would never have heard of Tetris if it hadn't been "sidelined." It's not as if the Soviets were exporting copies of Tetris all over the world to support the global struggle against oppressive capitalism. Also, the use of the word "best" implies there was some competition. Can you name any other "video game product of communism?"

I partly agree. I think he should be charged, convicted, then pardoned. Snowden should be charged and convicted because what he did should not be generally legal. He should be pardoned because he broke the law out of necessity, doing a great service to every citizen. I think the trial would be very informative. We would learn things like why the "official channels" Snowden didn't use wouldn't have produced the necessary result.

Yes, Oracle probably hasn't been as bad a Microsoft with regard to changing things that don't need to be changed. From what I understand, most of the frustration which resulted in LibreOffice forking from OpenOffice was because people didn't think Sun and then Oracle allowed contributions at a sufficient rate.

Everything you laud was there before Oracle got ahold of it and remains in both OpenOffice and LibreOffice. Are you saying that Oracle should be praised for not destroying OpenOffice? That seems like a pretty low bar.