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Comment Re:Much as I despise trolls (Score 3, Informative) 489

In terms of content, you can say whatever the fuck you like about me.

Cool, so I can put up a webpage alleging that you are a paedophile then?

Despite what some loudmouths on Internet may proclaim, there are forms of speech that are damaging and therefore infringing on other people's rights. A government does have a legitimate interest in having those forms of speech curtailed, as much as it has an interest in having harmful physical acts like assault and battery curtailed.

Harassment, slander and libel, direct incitement to violence? It is up to the Frea Speach advocates to defend why these should be allowed, not for the rest of us to why we shouldn't have to put up with this in a civilised society.

Comment Re:It's always been a myth (Score 1) 239

And given that you just blindly repeated the misogynistic lies about Zoe Quinn, I think you just proved GP's point.

To stay with the observable facts: there is absolutely no proof that Zoe slept around to get good reviews. There has been no positive article on her work that can be directly attributed to her relationship.

And that Gamergate was born on this lie and acting as if they care about journalistic integrity, while staying mostly silent on 'Shadows of Mordor' tells a spectator exactly what the priorities of Gamergate are: shutting up the uppity women.

Comment Re:German science... (Score 1) 323

No. Once they invaded Poland, they were doomed from the start.

With the state of their Navy, Air Force and operational doctrine, they had nothing to force Britain to capitulate. Churchill put his finger on it when he said "Hitler knows he has to break us in this island or lose the war". Germany had no means to succesfully invade and conquer Britain. At best approximation they had the forces to force a small beachhead, and be thrown back.

Then there is the fact that the Molotov-von Ribbentrop pact was a marriage of convenience. While Stalin may have been complacent enough to disregard a German breaking of the pact, there is no way there would not eventually have been a war between two ideologies who were fundamentally opposed to each other. With Nazi Germany bleeding out in a campaign against Britain and the US (and a sustained push against Britain would have brought in the US), the temptation to open a second front and grab most of Eastern Europe would have been too great

Any way you look at it, unless you have Wehrmacht fanboi goggles, the strategic situation had always to have been in Germany's disfavour.

Submission + - Apple HealthKit forgets half of humanity

mvdwege writes: Apple proudly presented HealtKit as tracking all your basic health parameters. Rather amusingly, they forgot a basic health issue for about half of humanity: HealthKit can't track a female user's period, as that functionality is not implemented.

Comment Re:Why do people care so much? (Score 2) 774

On the server side when admining hundreds or thousands of machines, troubleshooting a bloated needlessly complex system wastes precious time.

Yup. That's why the major distros are all switching away from SysV init to systemd. Because the alternative is to continue with a Rube Goldbergish mess of shell scripts with no proper event-based activation nor decent process monitoring.

I am most definitely not the only one fed up with chasing Heisenbugs in a maze of twisty little shell scripts, all alike.

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